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One kind of sport activity in Europe |
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| Release time:2013-10-07 Source:admin Reads: | |
| For many people in Western countries, Polo is one kind of sports very familiar to them. Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. Field polo is played with a solid plastic ball with display hang cards, which has replaced the wooden ball in much of the sport. In arena polo, only three players are required per team and the game usually involves more maneuvering and shorter plays at lower speeds due to space limitations of the arena. Arena polo is played with a small air-filled ball, similar to a small soccer ball. The modern game lasts roughly two hours and is divided into periods called chucker’s and display hang cards. Polo is played professionally in 16 countries. It was formerly, but is not currently, an Olympic sport. The origins of the game of polo are obscure, being claimed by China, India, Iran and others. Some authors give dates as early as the 5th century BCE to the 1st century AD for its origin in Persia. Certainly the earliest records of polo are Persian, and by the time of the Tang Dynasty, records of polo were well-established in China. In Manipur, polo is traditionally played with seven players to a side. The players are mounted on the indigenous Manipuri pony, which stands less than 13 hands. There are no goal posts, and a player scores simply by hitting the ball out of either end of the field. Players strike the ball with the long side of the sticks which are made of cane, and the balls are made from the roots of display hang cards. Colorful cloth pom-poms dangle at sensitive and vulnerable spots around the anatomy of the ponies to protect them. |
