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<p>The first Paris–Rouen race occurred in 1869; the Tour de France was inaugurated in 1903. The huge success of the latter impressed the Giro d’Italia and a selection of other long-distance races. Football is the world’s hottest ball game, but, wherever American economic and culture influence has been dominant, the attraction to baseball, basketball, and volleyball has tended to exceed that to soccer. Baseball, for example, boomed in Cuba, where Nemesio Guilló introduced the game to his countrymen in 1863, and in Japan, where Horace Wilson, an American educator, taught it to his Japanese college students in 1873.</p> <p>In the 18th and nineteenth centuries, the British expelled the French from Canada and from India and extended British rule over much of Africa. To the ends of the earth, cricket adopted the Union Jack, which explains the game’s present popularity in Australia, South Asia , and the West Indies. Rugby soccer thrives in other postcolonial cultures, corre...