Sport in Mexico nations with six gold medals. Frontenis is a variation of the Basque pelota game, itself a derivation of real tennis. It was created in 1916 in Mexico, when the idea of merging tennis and the traditional Basque pilota emerged. It is played in one of the largest courts in racquet sports with a tennis racquet that contains an optional custom double string called "doble encordado" and a tiny frontenis ball. The Pre-Columbian people of Mesoamerica have played the Mesoamerican ball game for over 3,000 years. Archaeologists found the oldest ballcourt yet discovered – dated to approximately 1400 BC – at
Basque rural sports frontenis), Florida and the Philippines. As such it has been an Olympic exhibition sport in Paris, Mexico and Barcelona. It is called "pelota vasca" in Spanish and "pelote basque" in French. Basque arm wrestling follows broadly the same rules as anywhere else. A form of bull-leaping called "errekorteak" in Basque and "recortes" in Spanish, is practiced in parts of the Basque Country, especially Navarre. The name of this sport literally translates as "snout rope" ("soka" "rope" and "mutur" "snout"). It is "vaquillas" ("calves") in Spanish. It derives from a tradition where cattle destined for slaughter were led through the town