How Have Sports Changed

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sports have been a common tradition around the world for decades, for example the AFL is very common and well known in Australia and a sport like soccer is popular in Italy. But how have these sports changed? Over the decades all our well known sports have altered and with the evolution of technology the sports we’ve recognised in the past are quite different to how we find we recognise them now.
Evidence from over the last 50 years has shown that basketball players have dramatically increased their skills with new styles being an addition to the way basketball is played, for example dunking, lay ups, and other new dribbling techniques. Long ago in the 2000s they didn’t have the advanced frequently used technology that we now use today in

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