The chart below shows the number of adults participating in different major sports in one area, in 1997 and 2017. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

here is the illustration of a bar graph displaying the

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of adults who participated in various kinds of

sports

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in one single area, in the years 1997 and 2017. the different

sports

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are mentioned along the horizontal line and the

number

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of adults in thousands is on the vertical side of the graph.

firstly

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, we can see that tennis has been dominating to be the most played game in the years 1997 and

as well as

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2017.

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, football and rugby have the same level in both years. golf and swimming with a slighter difference have maintained a static level of nearly 30-35 thousand.

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, basketball has a gradual increase from 9 to 22 thousand participation of adults

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cricket has predominantly decreased to a very low

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of people participation.

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, we can summarise that few major

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like tennis football and rugby

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have maintained the same

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of participation