Editing South America (section)

===Sport===
{{Main|Sport in South America}}
[[File:Maracanã 2014 f.jpg|thumb|[[Maracanã Stadium]] in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]]
A wide range of sports are played in the continent of South America, with [[Association football|football]] being the most popular overall, while baseball is the most popular in Venezuela.

Other sports include basketball, [[cycle sport|cycling]], [[polo]], volleyball, [[futsal]], [[motorsports]], [[Rugby football|rugby]] (mostly in Argentina and Uruguay), [[handball]], tennis, golf, [[field hockey]], [[boxing]], and [[cricket]].

South America hosted its first [[Olympic Games]] in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016, and has hosted the [[Youth Olympic Games]] in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2018. A multi-sport event, the [[South American Games]], are held every four years. The first edition was held in [[La Paz]] in 1978 and the most recent took place in [[Santiago]] in 2014.

South America shares, with Europe, supremacy over football: all winners in the [[FIFA World Cup]] and [[FIFA Club World Cup]] have come from these two continents. Brazil has won the FIFA World Cup a record five times; Argentina three times, Uruguay twice. Five South American nations have hosted the tournament including the first edition in Uruguay (1930). Two were in Brazil (1950, 2014), Chile (1962), and Argentina (1978). South America is home to the longest-running international football tournament, the [[Copa América]], which has been contested since 1916. Argentina has [[List of Copa América finals|won the Copa América]] 16 times, the most among all countries.

[[South American Cricket Championship]] is an international [[one-day cricket]] tournament played since 1995 featuring national teams from [[Sports in South America|South America]] and certain other invited sides including teams from North America, currently played annually but until 2013 was usually played every two seasons.
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