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The sports landscape of Cuthland-Waldrich is dominated by the nation's affinity to ice hockey, which was developed in northern Cuthland during the 19th century and is widely considered to be the nation's national sport. A 2012 poll held by the Sportswriters Association of Cuthland-Waldrich found that ice hockey was the preferred sport of 54% of the population, making it the most popular sport in the country. The Ice Hockey Association of Cuthland-Waldrich (IHACW), founded in 1890, serves as the sport's highest governing body and the oldest such ice hockey organization in the world. The IHACW operates the Cutho-Waldish ice hockey league system, which organizes every internationally sanctioned division of professional ice hockey in Cuthland-Waldrich under a system of promotion and relegation. The National League, the highest division of ice hockey in the country, is the most widely viewed and attended sports league in Cuthland-Waldrich and is the Xth most valuable league in the world.

golf is also very popular in Cuthland-Waldrich, and is the most popular individual sport nationwide. Notable Cutho-Waldish golfers include

Internationally, Cuthland-Waldrich and its predecessor states have hosted the Auroran Games six times: the 1904 and 1996 Summer Games, as well as the 1934, 1950, 1978, and 2006 Winter Games. Cuthland-Waldrich has also hosted the International Ice Hockey Championships in 1932, 1948, and 1992, and the Auroran Cup in 2016.

History of Cuthland-Waldrich

• Pre-6th century: Tribes and stuff from prehistory until circa 6th century
• 6th century: Various petty kingdoms, duchies, etc. emerge and dominate throughout early medieval period
• 6th-11th centuries: But oh no, they keep getting fucked by Mascylla from the east and the Nordics from the west
• 11th century: Probably better if we unite into two kingdoms instead, Cuthland and Waldrich
• 15th century: Yeah this is pretty cool but Masc keeps fucking us so let's form a political union and totally not rip off Poland-Lithuania in the process
• 15th-17th centuries: Wow I like this whole empire thing let's go invade not!Scandinavia and maybe parts of Mascylla as well
  • We should also be artsy and shit while we're at it
• 17th century: Oh never mind this is actually completely unsustainable, ethnic tensions are sucky and our economy is in the shitter
  • Guess we better partition the G L O R I O U S E M P I R E and return to getting railed by Mascylla
• 1818: Lol jk we're getting the band back together
• 19th century: Oh look, industry and colonies
  • Oh awesome now Dulebia wants in, maybe we can challenge Lavarian/Mascyllary dominance and in no way collapse spectacularly in the process
• Great War: Oh wow that was shockingly predictable guess we suck again
• 1920s: Yep we definitely suck, Masc took our monarchy and now the commies want in
• 1930s: But what better cure for communism than a return of the monarchy, this time with double the oppression
• 1930s: Guess we should invade/annex Waldrich again, as is customary
• 1930s-1970s: Oh wow this is much better than before, we're actually kind of feared
• 1970s: Whoops maybe economics aren't our thing, the people are restless again
  • Okay we'll give you more capitalism but the monarchy stays
• 1980s-2000s: Mmm yes the sweet taste of cold hard cash
• 2000s-present: Wow we're actually developed as fuck for once