Sport in Brazil Brazilian jockey T. J. Pereira aboard. Curling is a growing sport in Brazil; the creation of a national team was inspired by the audience for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. A temporary rink in the Eldorado Shopping Center in São Paulo featured Norwegian curler Linn Githmark and a winter-sports complex is planned, probably in the city of Campos do Jordão. Frescobol is a native Brazilian sport similar to tennis and cricket, played with a wooden racket and soft rubber ball on the beach with no scoring system. It began during the 1960s on Ipanema beach. Biribol is another native
ITV Sport as well as broadcasting early evening highlights programmes. ITV has never fully broadcast the Winter Olympics, although excerpts from the 1960 Games, which were not otherwise covered in Britain, were featured in ITN bulletins. Between the 2008-2009 and 2016-17 seasons ITV Sport showed a weekly highlights programme of all Premiership Rugby and Anglo-Welsh Cup matches. This went to Channel 5 who now show highlights and 5 live matches During the 1960s ITV covered the Wimbledon tennis tournament alongside the BBC. Was shown as part of ITV's flagship sports programme World of Sport until the programme was cancelled in 1985. After