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Sport plays a major role during the lives of most people. Whether you be a major sports team fan or play sport yourself there is no doubt you can link it to your life in some way - no matter how old or young you are.

Participating in sports has a great many benefits to both the individual and family. Taking part in sport is a great opportunity for social interaction. It allows you to join a team and make new friends. Not only that, it helps you to develop your skills in a wide variety of areas including leadership, team work, balance, strength, fitness, flexibility and co-ordination.

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fantastic than joining up a sport or sporting team? Not only will you get the health benefits of taking part in sport, but the social benefits as well.

There is such a wide range of sports out there to try that will suit a broad range of people. Why not try football or soccer? How about netball or basketball? You could also consider trying your hand at volleyball (beach volleyball is particularly good for toning the legs!), archery, shooting, horse riding, paintball, bush walking, rock climbing or even some form of water sport!

There is such a broad range of sports available to both men and women to take part in - both recreationally and competitively - that it would be a shame not to have a go at something. So go on - get into sport… your life will be better for it!
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Everest climbers find new body, raising death toll
CBS News
(AP) KATMANDU, Nepal - Climbers have reported seeing another body on Mount Everest, raising the death toll to four for one of the worst days ever on the world's highest mountain. Nepali mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha said Tuesday that the ...
Maybe Everest Needs A Traffic Cop - At Least Four Climbers DeadNPR (blog)
Everest will be crowded again days after 4 killedThe Associated Press
Mount Everest Death Toll at Four with One MissingABC News

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Romney's ever-climbing jobs claim
Washington Post (blog)
By Jonathan Bernstein And just like that, the Mitt Romney campaign is back to claiming he created not thousands of jobs, not tens of thousands of jobs, but “well in excess of 100000” jobs at Bain. So says the Romney campaign's Eric Fehrnstrom.

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NBCSports.com

Four people dead on Mt. Everest, one still missing
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker at 4:31 am Tuesday, May 22 1996 was the deadliest year in the history of modern climbing on Mt. Everest. In one May weekend, eight people died when they were caught on the mountain in a storm. Over the course of the year, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk

Youngest woman to climb Mount Everest reaches summit
Telegraph.co.uk
By Hannah Furness Mollie Hughes, 21, made the gruelling ascent to nearly 30000ft with a team of intrepid climbers in “near perfect” conditions. She is now understood to be recovering at the base camp of the mountain, after spending a night at Camp 4; ...

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USA TODAY

Everest deaths are part of a 'sad, bad year' for climbing
USA TODAY
A Nepali mountaineering official told the Associated Press the body of Chinese climber Ha Wenyi was spotted not far from where three other climbers died Saturday on their way down from the 35035-foot summit. They were in an Everest "traffic jam" ...