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
Mare (folklore) French "mare". Most scholars trace the word back to the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root "*mer-", associated with crushing, pressing and oppressing. or according to other sources "to rub away" or "to harm". However, other etymologies have been suggested. For example, Éva Pócs saw the term as being cognate with the Greek (Indo-European *"moros"), meaning "death". In Norwegian and Danish, the words for "nightmare" are "mareritt" and "mareridt" respectively, which can be directly translated as "mare-ride". The Icelandic word "martröð" has the same meaning (-"tröð" from the verb "troða", "trample", "stamp on", related to "tread"), whereas the Swedish "mardröm" translates as "mare-dream".