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
Mind sport Mind sport A mind sport is a game of skill where the competition is based on a particular type of the intellectual ability as opposed to physical exercise. The first major use of the term was as a result of the Mind Sports Olympiad in 1997. The phrase had been used prior to this event such as backgammon being described as a mind sport by Tony Buzan in 1996; Tony Buzan was also a co-founder of the Mind Sports Olympiad. Bodies such as the memory council use the term retrospectively. It is a term that became fixed from games trying