Bowling
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BOWLING
First appearance in the Central American and Caribbean Games: 1950
There is evidence of games similar to bowling being played by the Egyptians (from at least 7,000 years), by the Polynesians, and even in the Greek work the Iliad by Homer. In the 3rd Century in Germany a religious practice called kegel started the term kegler, used through the present day to call people who play bowling in that country. The Dutch created the rules of the game. Around 1650, they played a version where the objective was to knock down nine pins arranged in the shape of a diamond at the end of a track about 27 m long with a ball. The nine pin version continues to exist, but it also changed into a version with ten pins which is the most popular around the world. In this version, pins are arranged in the shape of a triangle and the track is about 20 m long. Modern pins have the shape of a bottle and the balls weigh up to 7 kg. Another recent addition is to count with strikes (knocking down all the pins in one play) and spares (knocking down the pins in two plays that players are entitled to during each turn).
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| D | Day of Rest |
| M/F | Masculine/Femenine |
| O/C | Opening/Closing Ceremony |
