Young gymnasts practice pull-up on a bar at a gymnasium of a sports school in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province April 11, 2015. (Photo by William Hong/Reuters)
Kharkiv is Ukraine's second-largest city, and as in the whole country sports are taken seriously. The most popular sport is football. In 2012 in Kharkiv will pass European Football Championship.
Boxing is a sport more often associated with brute violence than with aesthetics. But photographer Howard Schatz has turned thuggish fighters into the subjects of extraordinary portraits showing the beautiful side of pugilism. The stunning pictures, collected in a new book, took six years to capture as Mr Schatz sought to investigate every aspect of the controversial sport.
Terashima Takeshi and Akaishi Kazuya of Japan block a shot from Indonesia during day one of the ISTAF Super Series at Palembang Sport Convention Center on February 23, 2012 in Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia. (Photo by Nicky Loh/Getty Images for UFA Sports)
Richard Kilty of Britain celebrates after winning the men's 60 metres final during the European Indoor Championships in Prague March 8, 2015. REUTERS/David W Cerny (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: SPORT ATHLETICS)
A woman sports a rainbow painted hand at the annual PrideFest celebration at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado June 18, 2016. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)