Sport in Mexico is celebrated annually with a special bullfight called the "Corrida de Aniversario". The Plaza México has been host to many of the world's best and most famous bullfighters. Basque pelota is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat, or a basket propulsor, against a wall. Since 1952, the International Federation of Basque Pelota has organized the World Championships of Basque pelota every four years. Mexico hosted the world championships in 1982, 1998 and 2006. Mexico gave its best performance at the 2006 games when they led all
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