Sports are types of sports activities that were historically formed in the course of their development as independent components. Currently, there are about 200 sports in the world.
Swimming is a sport or an athletic discipline that involves swimming for various distances in the shortest possible time.
Main types of swimming are freestyle; backstroke; breaststroke; and butterfly.
The postage stamp features a butterfly swimmer.
Chess is a board logical game with chess pieces on a 64-box chessboard; the game combines elements of art (including those in terms of a chess composition), science and sport.
The game is given on a board divided into equal square boxes, or houses. The size of the board is 8×8 boxes. Each set of chess pieces includes a king, a queen, two castles, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns.
The postage stamp features chess pieces: two knights, two pawns, a castle, a bishop, as well as figurative symbols of the king and the queen.
Figure skating is a skating sport that refers to complex coordination sports. The basic idea consists in an athlete or a pair of athletes moving on skates on the ice with changes in the direction of skating and performing additional elements (pirouettes, jumps, combinations of steps, hand spots, etc.) to music.
The postage stamp features an image of a figure skater in ladies singles skating.
Football is a team sport in which the purpose is to score a ball into the opposing team's goalposts with feet or other body parts (except for hands) more times than the opposing team will do into yours. Currently, it is the most popular and participation sport in the world.
The postage stamp features an image of a football player with a ball against the background of the markings on the football field.
The composition of the souvenir pack in cover “Sports” is included:
- stamp №2992 “Sports. Swimming”;
- stamp №2999 “Sports series. Chess”;
- stamp №3018 “Sports series. Figure skating”;
- stamp №3019 “Sports series. Football”;
- FDC with cancellation in Moscow “Sports. Swimming”;
- FDC with cancellation in Moscow “Sports. Chess”;
- FDC with cancellation in Moscow “Sports. Figure skating”;
- FDC with cancellation in Moscow “Sports. Football”;
- vignette.
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