Pelota mixteca Pelota mixteca Pelota mixteca ("Mixtec-style ball") is a team sport similar to a net-less tennis game. The players wear sturdy, elaborately decorated gloves affixed to a heavy flat striking surface, using them to strike a small solid ball. The game has roots extending back hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of years. Today, the game is played in the Mexican state of Oaxaca and Guerrero and in emigrant communities including those in the Mexico City, Los Angeles and Fresno areas. The members of each five-player team take their positions on one-half of a long narrow court—roughly 100 m long by 11 m
International Centre for Sport Security different sports and regions around the world being set up, and a multidisciplinary team of world experts in education, communications, sport management and sport integrity. Securing Sport 2013 saw the unveiling of the Save the Dream logo and the first Save the Dream Award being given to Spanish runner Iván Fernández Anaya for good sportsmanship. This annual conference, hosted by ICSS, focuses on sport security. The Conference is held in Doha, Qatare. The first conference took place in March 2011. Speakers included Lord John Stevens, William J. Bratton, Rick Parry, Sir Ronald Flanagan, Leonard McCarthy and Michael Johnson. The second