Buenos Aires Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Sports=== {{Main|Category:Sport in Buenos Aires|Football in Buenos Aires}} [[File:La Bombonera.jpg|thumb|left|''[[La Bombonera]]'' during a night game of [[Copa Libertadores]] between [[Boca Juniors]] v. [[Colo Colo]].]] Buenos Aires has been a candidate city for the Summer Olympic Games on three occasions: for the [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Games]], which were lost by a single vote to Melbourne; for the [[1968 Summer Olympics]], held in [[Mexico City]]; and in [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004]], when the games were awarded to [[Athens]]. However, Buenos Aires hosted the first [[1951 Pan American Games|Pan American Games]] (1951)<ref name="Time Out"/> and was also host city to several World Championship events: the [[1950 FIBA World Championship|1950]] and [[1990 FIBA World Championship|1990]] [[FIBA World Championship|Basketball World Championships]], the 1982 and 2002 [[FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|Men's Volleyball World Championships]] and, most remembered, the [[1978 FIFA World Cup]], won by [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] on 25 June 1978, when it defeated the [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]] at the Estadio Monumental 3–1. In September 2013, the city hosted the [[125th IOC Session|125th]] [[IOC Session]], Tokyo was elected the host city of the [[2020 Summer Olympics]] and Thomas Bach was new [[IOC President]]. Buenos Aires [[Buenos Aires bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics|bid]] to host the [[2018 Summer Youth Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Buenos Aires, Argentina to bid for 2018 Youth Olympic Games |url=http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/youth_olympic_bids/1216135867.html |access-date=30 August 2011 |publisher=Games Bids Inc. |date=30 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106175649/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/youth_olympic_bids/1216135867.html |archive-date=6 January 2012 }}</ref> On 4 July 2013, the IOC elected Buenos Aires as the host city.<ref name=autogenerated1/> Buenos Aires hosted the [[2006 South American Games]] too. [[Association football|Football]] is a popular pastime among many of the city's citizens, as Buenos Aires, featuring no fewer than 24 professional teams, has the highest concentration of teams of any city in the world.<ref name="observer">[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1182710,00.html 50 sporting things you must do before you die] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112123418/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1182710,00.html |date=12 January 2012 }}, ''[[The Observer]]''Royal Madrid, 4 April 2004</ref> with many of its teams playing in the major league. The [[Superclásico|best-known rivalry]] is the one between [[Boca Juniors]] and [[Club Atlético River Plate|River Plate]], the match is better known as [[Superclásico]]. Watching a match between these two teams was deemed one of the "50 sporting things you must do before you die" by ''The Observer''.<ref name="observer"/> Other major clubs include [[Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro|San Lorenzo de Almagro]], [[Club Atlético Huracán]], [[Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield|Vélez Sarsfield]], [[Chacarita Juniors]], [[Club Ferro Carril Oeste]], [[Club Atlético Nueva Chicago|Nueva Chicago]] and [[Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors]]. [[Diego Maradona]], born in [[Lanús Partido]], a county south of Buenos Aires, is widely hailed as one of the sport's greatest players of all time. Maradona started his career with [[Argentinos Juniors]] and went on to play for [[Boca Juniors]], the [[Argentina national football team|national football team]] and others (most notably [[FC Barcelona]] in Spain and [[S.S.C. Napoli|SSC Napoli]] in Italy).<ref>[http://www.diegomaradona.com/ingles/ihistoria.html Complete list here on the left] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302213753/http://www.diegomaradona.com/ingles/ihistoria.html |date=2 March 2010 }}</ref> [[File:La Catedral del Polo.jpg|thumb|[[Campo Argentino de Polo]], home of the [[Argentine Open Polo Championship]], the most important global event of this discipline]] [[File:Court central Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club.jpg|thumb|[[Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club]]]] In 1912, the practice of basketball in Argentina was started by the ''Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes (YMCA)'' of Buenos Aires,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120311233226/http://www.ymca.org.ar/historia-en-argentina/ Historia en la Argentina] on Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes en la Argentina website (Archive – 11 March 2012)</ref> when Canadian professor Paul Phillip was in charge of teaching basketball at the YMCA of Paseo Colón Avenue. The first basketball clubs in Argentina, [[Hindú Club|Hindú]] and [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]], were located at the YMCAs of the [[Greater Buenos Aires]] metropolitan area. By 1912 the first basketball games were held by YMCA headquarters in Buenos Aires. Nowadays, the [[Argentine Basketball Confederation]] is headquartered in Buenos Aires. Argentina has been the home of world champions in professional [[boxing]]. [[Carlos Monzon]] was a hall of fame World Middleweight champion, and the former lineal Middleweight champion [[Sergio Martínez (boxer)|Sergio Martinez]] hails from Argentina. [[Omar Narváez (boxer)|Omar Narvaez]], [[Lucas Matthysse]], [[Carolina Duer]], and [[Marcos Maidana]] are five modern-day world champions as well. Argentines' love for horses can be experienced in several ways: [[horse racing]] at the ''[[Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo]]'' [[race track|racetrack]], [[polo]] in the ''[[Campo Argentino de Polo]]'' (located just across Libertador Avenue from the ''Hipódromo''), and [[pato]], a kind of basketball played on horseback that was declared the national game in 1953. Polo was brought to the country in the second half of the 19th century by English immigrants. The first rugby union match in Argentina was played in 1873 in the [[Buenos Aires Cricket Club Ground]], located in the neighborhood of [[Palermo, Buenos Aires|Palermo]], where the [[Galileo Galilei planetarium]] is located today. Rugby enjoys widespread popularity in Buenos Aires, most especially in the north of the city, which boasts more than eighty rugby clubs. The city is home to the Argentine [[Super Rugby]] franchise, the [[Jaguares (Super Rugby)|Jaguares]]. The [[Argentina national rugby union team]] competes in Buenos Aires in international matches such as the [[The Rugby Championship|Rugby Championship]]. Buenos Aires native [[Guillermo Vilas]] (who was raised in [[Mar del Plata]]) and [[Gabriela Sabatini]] were great tennis players of the 1970s and 1980s<ref name="Time Out"/> and popularized tennis Nationwide in Argentina. Vilas won the [[ATP Buenos Aires]] numerous times in the 1970s. Other popular sports in Buenos Aires are [[golf]], [[basketball]], [[rugby union|rugby]] and [[field hockey]]. [[Juan Manuel Fangio]] won five [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Formula One World Driver's Championships]], and was only outstripped by [[Michael Schumacher]] and [[Lewis Hamilton]], with seven Championships. The Buenos Aires [[Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez|Oscar Gálvez]] car-racing track hosted 20 [[Formula One]] events as the [[Argentine Grand Prix]], between 1953 and 1998; it was discontinued on financial grounds. The track features various local categories on most weekends. The [[2009 Dakar Rally|2009]], [[2010 Dakar Rally|2010]], [[2011 Dakar Rally|2011]], [[2015 Dakar Rally|2015]] [[Dakar Rally]] started and ended in the city. {{wide image|River Monumental Panoramic.jpg|1000px|align-cap=center|[[Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti|''El Monumental'']], home of [[Club Atlético River Plate|River Plate]], hosted the final game of the [[1978 FIFA World Cup|FIFA World Cup Championship in 1978]] }} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page