Sport in Mexico Olympic sport. The 400-meter event became popular when Ana Guevara became world champion in 2003. "Italic" text indicates upcoming events hosted by Mexico. Mexican professional wrestling, which is known as lucha libre, has been a popular spectacle in Mexico since 1933, when promoter Salvador Lutteroth Gonzales founded Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre. Like other forms of professional wrestling, it is not strictly a sport, but rather a form of sports entertainment, as matches usually have predetermined outcomes. Lucha libre is characterized by rapid sequences of holds and moves, as well as spectacular high-flying moves, many of which have been adopted
A. C. de la Mare where she soon garnered praise for her “enthusiastic”, “inspirational” lecturing stye. She retired from the post in 1997. From 1990 through 2000, de la Mare served as a counsellor to the Bureau of the prestigious Comité International de Paléographie Latine (CIPL), a scholarly organisation of which she was a committed and active member. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1987, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1993. The Warburg Institute held an academic conference commemorating her life and work in 2012, and 2016 brought publication of a volume of