11.   Sports provides self-esteem.

12.   Sports provide researchers a real-world laboratory, with hard statistical data, for studying some superstitions.

13.   The sports provide characters and storylines, but host cities provide the setting, the glamour, the exotic sense of being global.

14.   They deserve to succeed, he said, given that sport has provided some of the most symbolic and visible racial healing in post-apartheid South Africa.

15.   They deserve to succeed, he said, given that sports have provided some of the most symbolic and visible racial healing in post-apartheid South Africa.

16.   Thomson and Cheney agree that in addition to offering physical and mental challenges, their sport provides diverse environments in which to run, camaraderie and family participation.

17.   What makes the decision harder is that no one is certain which sport provides a brighter future.

18.   For many, the sport has provided an alternative to rugged, squalid street life.

19.   Instead, the increasingly health-conscious sport provided liquid, low-fat foodstuffs for the road, complementing an endless drone of pasta, rice and muesli.

20.   The sport provides hundreds of jobs in rural areas where unemployment is high.