She's also seen how running can bring children and parents together, especially as the sport has become more popular in the last decade.

From then on their daily match became the ship's national sport.

Various styles have developed as the sport has become more popular.

"The fact that we have the world's top 48 players from 21 different countries also shows how the sport is becoming increasingly global."

"But this is a perfect example of what the sport has become," he added.

Such a sport, though, would by then already have become meaningless.

But all too often that's what sports has become.

Still, he did not like what his sport had become.

"They did their market research and found outdoor sports were becoming a very hot trend."

But in this television age, sports have become ever more important.