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East sport It is practiced with a stick and presents different versions: on skates, on grass, on ice and Lacrosse. Other forms of hockey are less well known, such as the one practiced in the Beach, floorball or skater hockey.

On grass

Two teams of eleven players face each other and the objective of the game is to introduce the ball with the stick into the opposing goal. Its modern version began in England in the late 19th century and has been an Olympic sport since 1908. Like football, voluntary fouls committed within the area are penalized with a penalty or shoot-out (involuntary fouls are punished with a corner penalty).

One of the features Unique to this sport is the bully, a type of neutral throw. A bully occurs when play is resumed after an interruption and players hit the I usually with the stick and then hit it three times with the opponent's stick before attempting to hit the ball.

On ice and under ice

Two teams of six players face each other and the skaters move a puck with the stick with the

purpose to score a goal in the opponent's goal. Canada is the country origin of this sport, which has been practiced since the end of the 19th century.

In 1948 he began his trajectory What discipline olympic. Fights between players are very common and in a way, part of the show (players trying to curb their opponents' foul play are known as enforcers).

In recent years a new version has been invented: ice hockey (it is played on a frozen lake and the players keep the breathing and periodically rise to the surface through a hole made in the ice).

On skates

It is practiced between two teams of five players (four on court plus a goalkeeper). The skates have four parallel wheels and a brake. The stick hits a compressed rubber ball. The court where it is practiced is rectangular and has dimensions similar to those of handball. Like many other disciplines, it emerged in England in the 19th century.

Although it is not an Olympic sport, in the 1992 Barcelona Games it was practiced as an exhibition modality. The Spanish team is the one that has won the most world championships.

Lacrosse

Two teams of ten players pass the ball using a stick with a net at the end and with the aim of getting the ball into the opponent's goal. The first to use these sticks were the Huron Indians, who in their warfare threw stones with them.

Over time the French turned it into a new sport and it was an Olympic discipline in 1904 and 1908.

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