We at SportsPodium are passionate about ALL sport. We understand that fans have their particular favourite, but it is truly amazing how many sports there are. Some may be practiced only in a village in Tibet or Sweden, but they are a sport. Many are practiced by small groups of people that compete internationally. For instance Lumberjacking .... they have a world championship!
By any reckoning there is more than 8000 sports in the world. Thats right, 8000. And there would be very many variations of these not even counted.
It thus shows us that while the Olympics is the pinnacle of sport for most, with only 28 sports it is a very small part of the sporting world. 5 is due to be added in 2020. The winter Olympics includes 11 Sports. In total that is only 44 sports!
There is roughly 200 sports that has international recognition through an international governing body of some sort, also a small part of the estimated 8000 sports played world wide. Some of these combine a few sporting codes but essentially there are many sports in the world that is known out of the one or two regions or countries they are played in.
For us @sportpodium these are important stats. We are a multi sport platform that intend to gather information about ALL sports and give recognition for all sports. We intend to create a single library of all sporting code, participation and results. Besides the 40 odd Olympic sports many of these could have wide appeal. Through our token, called a POD we can help some of these organise and publicise. That is very exciting for us.
If you play any little known sport talk to us. Perhaps you can guest write and article for us on that sport? SportsPodium intends to have at least one Ambassador per sport. Perhaps you know a person that is the top of one of these unknown sports? Put us in touch.
Money will always flow to where the attention of the masses are, such as Football, Basketball and Cricket. But all sport is fun, and as long as some play it deserves some recognition.