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A trail is a short, ordered route through the atlas. Each stop says why it comes next, so a journey reads as an argument rather than a list. Start one, leave, and come back: your place is kept in this browser, and you do not need an account for that.
Board and card games are not one family but many, and the sport atlas draws a boundary around each one to keep games with a similar core mechanic together and everything else out. This trail visits ten of those families...
10 stops
Football is not one sport but several. Association football, the two rugby codes, American football and Australian rules all trace back to a shared nineteenth century family of running and kicking games before growing...
10 stops
World sport has no single government. This path walks down the layers the Olympic Movement and its federations built over more than a century, from the multi-sport authority that runs the Olympic Games itself, through...
8 stops
This atlas rests on the official histories that governing bodies, clubs and federations publish about themselves. This path follows ten of the atlas's own official-reference sources in the order of the founding fact...
10 stops
Six stops through this wave's own research: China's Xiangqi and Korea's Janggi, the Mughal court game Pachisi, ancient Egypt's Senet, the geographically unplaceable Nine Men's Morris, and the Reversi to Othello story...
6 stops
From the founding four athletes and their competitions to the athletes and competitions this wave added, spanning sprinting, boxing, tennis, football, gymnastics, chess, cycling, swimming and baseball across more than a...
15 stops
Six pages new or freshly deepened in the 2026-08-27 sport depth wave: three majors that had no place in the atlas until now, a golf and cricket rivalry each built on an origin story worth knowing, and a board game whose...
6 stops
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