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    The Mythic Sports

    Jun 07, 2018 2 minutes
    DATA SOURCES: SPORTS KEEDA, BRITTANICA, AMATEUR KABADDI FEDERATION OF INDIA
    PHOTOS © NUR PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES

    KABADDI

    An ancient South Asian game invented some 5,000 years ago to improve self-defence and hunting reflexes, kabaddi was formalised in the 1930s, and is noted for its symbolic resemblance to a tale in the Hindu epic Mahabharata about a doomed

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