Soccer
Kids' soccer is the most-played team sport on Earth
More than 250 million kids around the world play organized soccer — making it the planet's most popular team game.
You can show up to any park in almost any country and find a game.
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Track
Two runners helped each other across the finish line
At the 2016 Olympics, runners Abbey D'Agostino and Nikki Hamblin fell during a race. Instead of running on, they helped each other up and finished together.
Both athletes were given a special sportsmanship medal — the highest honor in sport.
Skateboarding
A 13-year-old won Olympic gold in skateboarding
When skateboarding became an Olympic sport in 2021, 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya of Japan won the gold medal in street skating.
She landed tricks at the Olympics that pros had been working on for years.
Special Olympics
5 million athletes compete in the Special Olympics
The Special Olympics is the world's biggest sports program for athletes with intellectual disabilities, with over 5 million athletes in 170 countries.
Their motto is: 'Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.'
Baseball
MLB built a real cornfield baseball stadium
Major League Baseball built an actual playing field in the middle of an Iowa cornfield for one special game — just like the movie 'Field of Dreams.'
The players walked out of the cornstalks onto the field, exactly like the movie.
Olympics
Olympic athletes often trade pins to make friends
Athletes from every country bring tiny pins to the Olympic Village and trade them with athletes from other countries to make new friends.
Some athletes go home with hundreds of pins from people they'd never have met otherwise.