This is a list international sports federations, all of which serves as an unofficial governing body for a given sport and administers the sport on a global scale, often drafting rules and promoting the sport to prospective spectators and fans and players who are aspiring to become and organising international or continental championships. Some international sports federations, like for instance the International Swimming Federation and the International Skating Union, may oversee multiple activities referred to by the term "separate" sports. FINA also regulates swimming diving, synchronised swimming and water polo. These are separate "disciplines" within the single "sport" of Aquatics.
International sports federations form an integral component to the Olympic as well as Paralympic movements. Each Olympic sport is represented through its international sports federation. The federation also helps to manage the events of its game during Games. For a sport to become an Olympic sport and its international sports federation must be recognized from the International Olympic Committee.
A global sports organization must be recognized as such by the International Paralympic Committee to allow its sport to be one of the paralympic sports, even though in the latter case, some Paralympic Sports are managed by a specialized commission of International Paralympic Committee that is in accordance with World Para branding, for example , track and field. for disabled athletes is governed by the IPC itself, under the designation "World Para Athletics". Other Paralympic sports are managed within the framework of the equivalent for the physically abled that is, for instance, the UCI regulates 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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