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What is the oldest sport in history?

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Early B-Ball

A form of basketball called pogo or something.
How far back does it go. Soccer goes back as far as 1006 BC.
But an even older sport is wrestling it dates back to when the cave man would wrestle for the leader of the tribe and is also dated before the Romans and Aztecs

it isint be ball its boxing well it wasint boxing it was called somthing else in the 688 bc then that leaded to gladiators

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