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What Sport Is the Most Popular in…

If someone told you it was orienteering, you probably wouldn?t believe. A month ago I wouldn?t believe it either. But in Latvia this became reality: Orienteering was announced the most popular sport of the Year 2005 in the country. Everything started already in early autumn. The voting was done through…
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the official website of the Latvian Olympic committee, where people could write the name of a sportsman (it could also be a sportswoman) and sport they considered the best one (only one vote was possible from the same computer during 24 hours). It was also possible to vote via filling in a questionnaire, which was published in sports magazines. Later on 5 best sportsmen and sports were selected in both the categories. It seems that the majority of orienteers in Latvia knew about the voting as orienteering got into the Top 5 along with such well-known sports as football, hockey,…

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