Every country has a national sport and some popular sports are now played across the world. However, in most countries, people also play unusual sports, with strange or interesting rules.

各国都有自己的国民体育项目，如今，一些流行的体育项目传至世界各地。然而，大多数国家也会有人进行一些非常规的体育项目，这些项目的规则或奇怪或有趣。

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Table Tennis as a national sport, is typical of the advantages of China's competitive sports projects.

乒乓球作为国球，是我国竞技体育典型的优势项目之一。

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Sports is typically a friendly subject in most parts of the world, although be careful not to criticize a national sport.

在世界大部分地区，体育是典型的友善话题，但仍然应当注意不要去批评他国的某项体育运动。

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The National Association for Sport and Physical Education says twenty to thirty students in a P.E.class should be the limit.

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In their national sport of ice hockey, the Canadian men won a thrilling 3-2 overtime victory for the gold medal over their rivals and neighbors to the south, the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

"That helps the sport grow. If we just stayed all our separate little ways, the sport would never get momentum, so it's basically a national movement where we have one governing body kind of governing all the rules so we all play by the same rules."

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Kam Air sponsors teams in volleyball, football, cricket and buzkashi (literally, goat grabbing), a national sport akin to polo.

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Tax evasion is almost a national sport for the lower and middle classes.

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