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Who invented chess? Why is polo played in Pakistan? From Cornwall to Korea, how sports and games have changed our world

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Meet Hong Kong's own practicioners of parkour, and watch them demonstrate how it's done

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India's Passion for Cricket

Once the pastime of its colonizers, India has made a traditional British game its own — and become its most avid and powerful player

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Cameroon's Football Fever

TIME's Vivienne Walt travels to Cameroon, where young footballers dream a recruiter will spot them and lift them—and their families—out of poverty
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China's Hoop Dreams

Thanks to the international success of players like Yao Ming, street basketball is a phenomenon in urban China
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Boxing Out of Poverty and Prison in Thailand

For some, boxing has become a hard-won ticket out of a life of crime in Thailand
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Don't call them dweebs. In South Korea, computer-game players are serious athletes driving a sport that is reaching big-money sponsors and millions of spectators worldwide
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Parkour: An Urban Adventure

Part gymnastics, part Tai Chi, parkour brings thrills and discipline to enthusiasts
Photographs for TIME by Philippe Dudouit

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China's Olympic Ambitions

TIME's Hannah Beech travels to China's athletic training schools to witness the grueling grooming of the country's next generation of medal contenders
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