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Type of team sport From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gain-ground games are team sports which are played with a small ball or a balloon. They are often outdoors on a "ballodrome" but can also be played indoors.
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Characteristics | |
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Team members | 2 per team - 7 per team |
Presence | |
Olympic | Longue paume was part of the Paris 1900 Summer Olympics Real tennis in 1908 |
Among these games, longue paume and real tennis are the most well-known because they are played with rackets. The rules change a little depending on the game, but the basic rules remain identical from one game to the other.[further explanation needed]
Games of gain-ground are characterized in particular by the use of "chasses". Chasses indicate the limit between both teams or in real tennis a limit to score a point. Points are counted as in tennis: 15, 30, 40 and set.
Two games in Jeu de paume:
These sports are practised in Hauts-de-France and Belgium:
but also in Spain :
or in the world:
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