One team players crosses a boundary line and tries to touch the member of the other opposite team to score a point.
Kabaddi is a wrestling sport from India. Two teams occupy opposite halves of a small swimming pool or field and take turns sending a "raider" into the other half, to win points by tackling members of the opposing team; then the raider tries to return to his own half. It is the most favourite rural game in Kila Raipur Sports Festival.
Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.
Competition is held for major Punjabi rural sports, include cart-race, rope pulling.
In February each year, Ludhiana becomes the destination for hundreds of sports enthusiasts, including foreigners. They come to Kila Raipur to see the special breed of bullocks, camels, dogs, mules and other animals competing in competitive events. The most prestigious winners have attended. In the year of the Olympics 2008, Hakam and Naib Singh Dhaliwal from village Kalsian, Punjab took the 1st place prize. They also won first in gujjaral and phalewal. They are known in punjab as the men who hold the greatest passion in the sport.
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