Answers for Sports Word Scramble Set 2, with notes on each discipline, including why the Tour de France leader wears yellow.
Japanese martial art built on throws and holds.
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AnswerJUDO
The name translates roughly as the gentle way, since it redirects force rather than meeting it.
Twelve rounds, two gloves, one ring.
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AnswerBOXING
The Queensberry Rules of 1867 introduced gloves and the three-minute round.
Facing backwards while going forwards, fast.
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AnswerROWING
An eight is steered by the coxswain, the only person in the boat facing the direction of travel.
Three weeks, one yellow jersey.
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AnswerCYCLING
The Tour de France leader's jersey is yellow because the sponsoring newspaper was printed on yellow paper.
Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly.
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AnswerSWIMMING
Butterfly began as a legal variation of breaststroke before becoming its own event in 1952.
Beam, bars, vault and floor.
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AnswerGYMNASTICS
The balance beam is ten centimetres wide, about the length of an adult hand.