Le Tibet s'emballe pour le basket!

Bien sympathique d'imaginer des moines tibétains s'exerçant au basket, mais il semble qu'il y ait maintenant un engouement monstre pour le sport inventé par le prof James Naismith et cette passion a des origines lointaines.

 "Along the northeastern edge of the Tibetan plateau, a treacherous landscape where yaks graze above the clouds, basketball hoops are everywhere: at the bases of cliffs; in the courtyards of centuries-old, golden-roofed monasteries; in nomadic villages tucked into the hills.

It was within such a village, Zorge Ritoma, that Dugya Bum, a sheep and yak herder from the Golden Stone Clan, took up the sport. He’d played in school, but after dropping out at 16 he became a full-time nomad, the livelihood of his ancestors. During winter, his family lived in a mud-walled house about four miles from Zorge Ritoma’s center, grazing yaks and sheep at the foot of the mountains. In the summer, when the weather improved, they took the herds up to rich, high-altitude pastures and resided in temporary tents. In the fall, they would gradually make the journey back down."

  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/tibet-basketball/576421/