Sport in Mexico Sport in Mexico The most popular sport in Mexico is association football, followed by boxing. However, there are regional variations: for example, baseball is the most popular sport in the northwest and the southeast of the country. Basketball, American football and bull riding (called "") are also popular. Mexico City hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics, the first time that the event was held in Latin America. Since then, the only edition of the Olympic Games held in the region was in 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mexico first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900 and has sent athletes
Armenian Sport in the Ottoman Empire Olympic Games were held in Constantinople. From 1911 to 1914, Shavarsh Chrisyan published the "Marmnamarz" sports magazine. It was the first sports periodical in the Ottoman Empire . Its name "Marmnamarz" meant sport in Armenian. For the first time in the history of Turkish Olympic Games, two Armenian sportsmen--Vahram Papazyan and Mkrtich Mkryan represented Ottoman Turkey in the Fifth International Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912. In 1915-1920, many Armenian sportsmen became victims of the genocide and most of the Armenian sports clubs were shut down. On the eve of World War I there were about 40 Armenian athletic clubs