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Cycle ball, also known as "radball" (from German), is a sport similar to football played on bicycles. The two people on each team ride a fixed gear bicycle with no brakes or freewheel. The ball is controlled by the bike and the head, except when defending the goal.
The sport was introduced in 1893 by a German-American, Nicholas Edward Kaufmann. Its first world championships were in 1929. Cycle ball is popular in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Sweden, and Switzerland. The most successful players were the Pospíšil brothers of Czechoslovakia, world champions 20 times between 1965 and 1988.
Closely related is artistic cycling in which the athletes perform a kind of gymnastics on bikes. A variant of bicycle soccer was invented independently by three Canadians in the late 1980s, riders kicking a ball between the front wheel and the frame of the opponent's bicycle to score points.
External links
- List with over 420 cycle ball clubs
- UCI's introduction to cycle ball and artistic cycling
- Cycleball on YouTube
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