Parkour is a fun sport that requires high levels of strength and flexibility. While it was once practiced only by a few athletes, parkour has recently gained many fans around the world. How should the information in these two sentences be combined into one compound-complex sentence?
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Parkour is a fun sport that requires high levels of strength and flexibility and while it was once practiced only by a few athletes; parkour has recently gained many fans around the world.
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Parkour is a fun sport that requires high levels of strength and flexibility, but while it was once practiced only by a few athletes parkour has recently gained many fans around the world.
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Parkour is a fun sport that requires high levels of strength and flexibility while it was once practiced only by a few athletes, parkour has recently gained many fans around the world.
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Parkour is a fun sport that requires high levels of strength and flexibility; while it was once practiced only by a few athletes, parkour has recently gained many fans around the world.

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