Individual & Racket Sports
One-on-one contests of skill, from the tennis court to the boxing ring.
Golf
One of the only major sports where players are trusted to report their own rule violations, penalty strokes included.
Badminton
A sport whose signature shot, the smash, has been recorded traveling faster than the serve in virtually any other racket sport on Earth.
Swimming
A sport where "freestyle" technically means you can swim however you want — everyone just happens to agree the same one stroke is fastest.
Surfing
The sport of standing on a moving piece of the ocean, which once nearly vanished and now has Olympic medals.
Boxing
Boxing has four major sanctioning bodies, so one weight class can have four "world champions" at the same time.
Table Tennis
Ping-pong has a basement reputation, but elite players must read spin and trajectory in a fraction of a second.
Tennis
A sport whose scoring system makes zero sense to newcomers, calling zero "love" for reasons nobody fully agrees on.
Squash
A squash ball has to warm up before it plays properly — start a match with a cold ball and it barely bounces at all.