The following is a listing of world-wide sports organizations, all one of which is an non-governmental governing body in the sport they are responsible for and manages its sport on a world level, usually by drafting rules in the sport, and promoting it to fans and prospective spectators and developing players and organising continental or world championships. Some international sports federations such as those of the International Swimming Federation and the International Skating Union, may supervise multiple activities that are known in the common sense as distinct sports: FINA, for example governs swimming diving, synchronised swimming and water polo, as distinct "disciplines" within the single "sport" of Aquatics.
International sports federations form an integral element to the Olympic as well as Paralympic movements. Every Olympic sports is represented through its international sports federation. They is then responsible for coordinating the activities in its specific sporting discipline at the Games. To become an Olympic sport its international sports association must be recognized from the International Olympic Committee.
Also, an international sporting association must be recognized as such by the International Paralympic Committee for the sport to become paralympic, however in this case, several Paralympic Sports are governed by a special panel of International Paralympic Committee that is under the World Para branding, for example track and field athletics for disabled athletes is governed by the IPC as a whole, under the designation "World Para Athletics". Other Paralympic sport are also governed by the framework of the able-bodied counterpart that is, for instance, the UCI governs both able-bodied and paralympic cycling.
List of Famous Sports Associations:
- World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation
- International Association of Athletics Federations
- International Carrom Federation
- International Sepaktakraw Federation
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