In 2007 the tabloids broke the allegations of match-fixing in sumo wrestling, the national sport.
It is our national sport, we have a strong football heritage which runs through every town and city.
Kam Air sponsors teams in volleyball, football, cricket and buzkashi (literally, goat grabbing), a national sport akin to polo.
Ms. HU DUNG LEE (Ping Pong Player): (Through translator) It's our national sport.
Tax evasion is almost a national sport for the lower and middle classes.
OfficialBadminton.com says it is played by 200 million people worldwide and is the national sport of Indonesia and Singapore.
Just as the takin is the national animal and ema datshi the national foodstuff, so archery is the national sport.
Last week, Vladimir Putin's Russia used a bit of undersea derring-do to remind us that chess is its national sport.
"He reminded Mr Blatter that football was the national sport and people in England were extremely passionate about football, " the spokesman said.
Sadly, bigotry has attached itself like a leech to the national sport.
Turkey's national sport is wrestling and the Istanbul bid committee has lined up firmly behind the effort to keep wrestling in the Olympics.
Given that Iran has made killing Americans its national sport and sponsoring Jihadist terrorist organizations its national pastime, why should America trust the Ayatollahs?
But there was a little bit of respite in what has become almost the national sport of bashing Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays.
Uday, even when he declined in favour, for a time controlled the state media and national sport, stupidly punishing athletes who did not win prizes.
It's often been said that wrestling is the national sport of Iran, where it doesn't have to compete with the likes of baseball, American football and hockey.
Shin and the other kids return to the tables for two more hours of practice, following their dreams in China's national sport, one shot at a time.
As for the "senior players" heading this revolt, it would be a matter of laughter if so many people were not already crying for our national sport.
With the debut of taekwondo as an official Olympic event, South Korea might be expected to march into Syd-ney with a single mission: dominate the national sport.
It is as though ducking and diving to avoid the taxman is a national sport, a cultural trait that is as old as the Gods on Mount Olympus.
Moaning about the Great British weather is a national sport.
"Football is an important part of the fabric of our nation and communities the length and breadth of Scotland benefit from the valuable contribution of our favourite national sport, " said Salmond.
The group says it represents wrestlers from 180 countries, including many where wrestling is the national sport and the only sport that gives athletes a route to participation in the Games.
"You can't understand the impact of Twitter in Venezuela until you understand that the national sport is gossiping, " said Antonio Cova, a sociology professor at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas.
The Lancashire opener, who sounded disillusioned with the counties' grip of the administration of the national sport, said in the last two decades the rest of the world had developed while England had not.
The group says it represents wrestlers from 180 countries, including many where wrestling is the national sport, and the only sport that gives athletes from those countries a route to participation in the Games.
While football is our biggest national sport and possibly our most exciting one, it is experiencing a crisis that has to be strategically managed if it is not to lose the momentum it has built up over recent decades.
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