| You can be a world-class sprinter, and you still have no chance to chase down the pelota. |
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| It's played with a pelota, a rock-hard ball five-sixths the size of a baseball, and with the explosive bounce of a golf ball. |
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| After watching a game of pelota, I sat on my balcony and got drunk on a dramatic view of rocky ridges calmed down by sheep, cows and farmers. |
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| Just like in tennis the server must land the pelota in the serve box to start a point. |
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| The rock hard pelota crushed the side of his head with a 100 mile per hour impact. |
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| Hit the pelota with such force that the opposing team can't return it with their cestas. |
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| Visitors under 25 years can enjoy a special concession, with free entry to the Euskal Jai Berri-Reyno de Navarra pelota court. |
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| Jousts and tournaments were held here, as were pelota games and even bullfights. |
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| In hand pelota, if a player hits the ball with both hands, it is good and play goes on but if he hits it twice, it will be ruled as a foul. |
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| The fronton version of pelota, popular in Spain, Mexico, the Philippines, and parts of the United States, is called jai alai. |
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| The traditional local game of pelota and ham omelette competitions add to the atmosphere. |
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| Homer, in epics VI and VII of his Odyssey, immortalizes and reflects that damsels amusing themselves with the game of pelota. |
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| After a game of Basque pelota, Bayonne Organisation arranges a meeting with some of the top champions of this superb sport. |
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| The Fabrique Alza just outside the city is known for its palas, bats used in pelota, the traditional Basque sport. |
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| It now has special exhibitions on Basque agriculture, seafaring and pelota, handicrafts and Basque history and way of life. |
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| Open water, outdoor, wood, sand, s ailing, land yachting, the art of racing and kite flying, the pleasures of golf, sport fishing, Squash or pelota Basque, diving, karting? |
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| This territory at the foot of the Pyrenees and by the side of the Ocean is famous for its traditional sport, Basque pelota, as well as its language, gastronomy, landscapes and villages of character. |
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| The jargon of the pelota may seem strange for the novice ones. |
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| Whatever the format, the pelota calendar carries on almost all year round. |
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| As in other rural sports, so in pelota there is the betting phenomenon. |
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| Around the same time the RCT abandoned its football division and a Basque pelota division was formed by the players from SW France, though this disappeared in 1930 in favour of the « Pelotaris Toulonnais ». |
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| Bidart is also host to regular games of the fast and furious Basque sport pelota near the main square. |
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| Pelota Mixteca games are held in August on Sundays at 5pm and on festival days. |
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| The kids can get involved in breaking a pinata, try their hand at loteria or Juego de Pelota, a ball game played without using your hands or feet. |
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| Try Los Fueros in Calle Fueros, Victor in the elegantly-arcaded Plaza Nueva and Lamiak on Calle Pelota, which is full of students and loud music. |
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