Sport minori

[uteetelma]

Hi everybody!
I need to translate this sentence:
"La manifestazione vuole dare visibilità agli sport minori"
This is my attempt:
"The event wants to provide more visibility to less important sports"
It sounds too literal for me.
Thanks for help and corrections.

 

[Nunou]

Non mi piace il fatto del più o meno importante, forse meglio tradurre sport meno conosciuti o meno comuni.
Io la scriverei così ...ma aspetterei il parere di un nativo...

The event is to boost less common sports activities.

 

[Schrodinger's_Cat]

I, too, don't like to refer to them as 'less important' or 'least important' sports.
Perhaps a better way to define them would be to say, sports with less media exposure, or just 'less popular' sports.

 

[eafkuor]

What about minor sports?

 

[uteetelma]

I agree with your opinions...
"Sport minori" underlines a negative meaning and I think that in my context can be translated as "sports with less media exposure".
I'm referring to volleyball, basketball and tennis: they aren't uncommon sports at all; the questions concerns their media exposure in Italy.
Thanks for your help!

 

[Schrodinger's_Cat]

Take for example sports in the USA, baseball, American football, basketball, ice hockey and golf have a huge media exposure, whereas Soccer, which is the most popular sport in the world, is not as popular in the USA.