Ringo is a sport played mainly in Poland. It is played on a rectangular court with a raised net, similar to volleyball or badminton. Individual players or teams stand on opposite sides of the net and throw a small rubber ring back and forth, without letting it hit the ground.
It was invented by Włodzimierz Strzyżewski, a Polish fencer and journalist, who demonstrated the game while he was covering the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
External links
International Ringo Federation - Ringo rules (http://www.republika.pl/polskie_towarzystwo_ringo/angielski/angreg.html)
Ringo's special qualities have prompted its originator and other people of good will to popularize this game so that it become a world and an Olimpic sport, giving every man a fine chance of self-improvement and the right to sport.
Ringo is played with a hollow rubber ring with a decompression vent, riffled on top and bottom surfaces, with an external diameter of 17 cm (registered design) and a weight of 160-165 grammes.
The team ringo (doubles and triples) is played on court 9 m wide by 18 m long (as the standard volleyball court is).
Apparently, Ringo is like volleyball, played with a ring.
"Ringo is a very simple game," he writes, "even though challenging, a fighting sport combining maximum effort of the soul and body with all the natural human movement: run, turnover, jump, catch, throw, bend.
With a focus to make Ringo an Olympic sport America Ringo Association will be bringing closer the dream of the families around the world to participate in the Olympic games participating in the family category where parents with their children will play other families of the world in the spirit of friendship and peace."
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