Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Swimming is fun for both parents and children. However, there are things that you will have to do in order to keep your kids safe while swimming. Below is a list of safety tips for parents: Supervise Your Children At All Times Children who are between the ages of one and four are at the greatest risk of drowning. That is why it is important to supervise children at all times while your child is in the water. Children who are under the age of five should be within arm's reach of an adult at all…

of races, I would stop a quarter of the way through, and start frantically catching my breath, like a dog panting after running for a while. When the final race of the season came around, it was time to hear if I would be eligible to compete in the summer races. I had trained extraordinarily hard so I wouldn’t be left behind; I practice for weeks on my technique to perfect the skill of taking breaths during strokes to make me more efficient, but sadly during the last race of the season I…

do. For example one of my favorite hobbies is I swim and even thought is cold I still go swimming. For me swimming is not just a thing for fun is a thing I have to do and that I love. You can say I am addicted to it, the reason I feel like that about swimming is because it calms me down. This is why when I buy my house it will have a pool. Not just any pool a one of a kind pool. Usually when I finish swimming we play poker. Who’s we you might wonder,’’ we’’ is usually the people I go with who is…

outdoor pool catered towards family fun with a kitty pool, slides, and a diving board, the indoor pool focused on competitive swimming. The length of the indoor pool is twenty five meters long, and twenty meters wide, allowing for eight lanes that are 2.5 meters wide each. Out of these eight lanes, the team used four lanes, each containing assigned swimmers based off their swimming abilities. Sitting nearby the main pool is a hot tub, lifeguard posts, and an entrance from each locker room. The…

The Olympic games have developed over recent years into one of the most important and significant international sporting events across the globe. Not only does the games provide a platform for athletes to show there skills and talents, it also offers hosting cities to benefit through the accumulated investment triggered by staging the Games, both economically and socially. Its become quite clear the importance of securing such an event, with the increases of the number of cities bidding to host…

Hosting the Olympic games for any country is an extremely daunting task, but many have chosen to take it on in hopes of stimulating their economy and creating infrastructure to benefit their people. However, the Olympics has in many instances proven to have negative economic impacts on hosting countries and cities. Recognizing this impact, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recommended in their Olympic Agenda 2020 that they would be, “inviting potential candidate cities to present an…

Ben and I met when I started my teaching rounds at Black Rock in 2006. Initially, we were both in relationships when we met and I didn’t get to know him very well until the end of the year when I was got the job at Black Rock for the following year. I started to attend more social events and thought he was a funny guy. I got to know him well when we both went through break-ups of our previous relationships. We had both been in long-term relationships and could relate to what each other were…

“The Montreal Olympics can no longer lose money than a man can have a baby”1 Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montreal from1960 to 1986 famously said. It was to be the first Canadian-hosted Olympics in our 76-year participation in the Games. However, the Games were marred by accidents, construction failures, and massive costs to the population of Montreal. The crown jewel of the first Canadian Games, the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was to be the shining new Olympics Stadium, estimated at an initial $134…

written by Daniel James Brown, is about a young man named Joe Rantz, who is on the rowing team for the University of Washington. He had to overcome many challenges regarding his past, but it didn’t stop him from gaining a spot on the United States Olympic crew team. He helped lead his team to victory, despite the hardships of living alone as a teenager. The second story “Night”, is a personal narrative written by Elie Wiesel. When he was a teenager, his family, and many other people of their…

A : SPORT AS A UNIFIER 1. I believe that sporting events contribute significantly to unifying a nation. Sporting events are a great form of entertainment and attract huge audiences around the world. Spectators either gather at stadiums to watch live events or watch socially on their TV’s. Sports brings out admirable qualities in people such as mutual respect, team play, discipline and fair play. Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black President, used sport as a method to unify the…