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 A. C. de la Mare Albinia Catherine de la Mare, (2 June 1932 – 19 December 2001), known in print as A.C. de la Mare and informally as “Tilly”, was an English librarian and palaeographer who specialised in Italian Renaissance manuscripts. Born in Gower Street, London, in 1932, she was the daughter of Richard de la Mare, director of Faber and Faber, and the granddaughter of the poet Walter de la Mare. In 1937 her family moved to an eighteenth century brick house in Much Hadham where Tilly and her younger brothers were raised. Motivated by “a strong sense of