In total she has won 19 olympic and world championship medals. Simone biles is the first female gymnast to win 3 consecutive world all around titles.…
In celebration of the 2016 Summer Olympics, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I nominate the ten-time Olympic gold medalist, Simone Biles as Outlier of the Year due to some by-chance opportunities and circumstances. At just 19 years old, Biles has become the most decorated women’s gymnast in the United States. She most likely would not have acquired these honors, had she not attended one school field trip to a gymnastics center, Biles may have never found her calling to gymnastics. She probably would have never been as successful as she is today.…
On TV to paper, everyone's talking about how Simone Biles won Gold on the 2016 Rio Olympics and everything. However, Simone isn't just a famous teenage gymnast…she's more than that. Born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, Simone Arianne Biles came existing in the world to become unique and powerful. Simone, along with her sister, Adriana, and two oldest brothers, Adam and Ron Jr. were adopted by their grandparents due to their father abandoning them and their mother who was a drug-addict. However, those family problems didn't affect Simone from striving for her dreams.…
Throughout time many nations have competed in the Olympics. Nations compete against each other through many athletic events. Many people come together to watch the Olympic games. World issues, such as WWII, gender equality, and the Cold War, have affected the development of the modern Olympics. Issues involving WWII has affected the Olympics’ development.…
In the mural "Going to The Olympics" by Frank Romero, he placed many symbols in is mural in a specific place. The symbols hat i saw are the hearts, the iron, the blimp, two guys fighting, a horse, a portrait, palm trees, and also cars. The hearts may symbolize the love for LA, the two guys fighting probably symbolizes the games that would be in the Olympics. Also the cars have a certain color in a certain order, they have the colors of the Olympic logo and are in the exact order. In my opinion the way Romero used the choice of colors and shapes to create the mood for this picture of Los Angeles was unique.…
Simone Biles is perhaps the youngest successful African American in the world. Her stellar talent in gymnastics and dedication to the sport, have me in awe. The tireless preparation and determination, she exhibits are characteristics that I can only hope to embody as I work towards becoming a medical professional. After overcoming many early childhood hardships, Simone persevered to become a world renowned gymnast and inspires many to follow in her footsteps. At only 4 feet 9 inches tall, Simone Biles has a larger than life personality.…
Which is true, because she is, but she has achieved is much more than that. Over the five years of being on the Women’s U.S. national gymnastics team, she has won 21 medals. She began her elite gymnastics career on July 1, 2011 at the 2011 American Classic (Biles, 69). After that day, over the next five years, she has become a three-time world all-around champion, the United States national all-around champion four years in a row, and many more solo event awards. In 2016, Simone, along with 4 other gymnasts were selected at the Olympic Trials to represent team U.S.A. at the 2016 Rio Olympics (Biles, 191).…
This last February’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit catalog has received a lot of heat for the risque image on the cover of the issue. The beautiful 24-year old, Hannah Davis, was given the rare the opportunity to be this year’s SI cover girl, and has unfortunately gotten a bad wrap for the image that she has produced. She looks stunning and incredibly fit in the photo, but many viewers are unhappy with the sight of “dangerously low-slung bikini bottoms” (Business Insider). Hannah is a model, therefore she is told how to pose, so it is not her fault for the provocative way in which she is sporting the bikini. While Sports Illustrated is trying to bite the bullet for her, and contracts are protecting her rights, it still must be tough receiving such an incredible opportunity and having it get torn to shreds by the public.…
“There is a long list of proven leaders that can attribute part of their development to sports like Jeffrey Immelt, Meg Whitman, and even President George H. W. Bush.” (Kai Sato, From the Case of High School Sports). Without the availability of high school sports could these leaders have gotten to where they are now if sports were not part of their development? High school sports are worth the time and money that schools spend on them because they change people for the better and allow people to become more successful. The benefits for high school sports include gaining important character traits such as perseverance, provides disadvantaged students to participate in sports, and presents potential future job opportunities.…
An issue that is hot debate is whether people should play sports. A lot of people say that there is a chance that you could get a concussion, hurt, or even worse, you could die. In sports, you take risks all the time. Just stepping onto the field is a risk. But just because there is a risk does not mean you quit.…
Benefits of Soccer He dribbles down the wing, cuts inside, and fires a shot away. The crowd goes wild as the ball whizzes into the net. The amazing sport of soccer can be breathtaking and beneficial to kids playing it. It is fun and helps to make one stronger and faster, it can help one make new friends, and it can help one develop a hobby to take up time.…
Science Olympiad is serious business. Everyone knows the key to success in Science Olympiad is organization, participation, and collaboration. Getting through a maze of event selection, study sessions, and eventually, competition is not an individual activity. Even though Cheyenne Mountain technically had more than one team (only fifteen members are allowed per team), we worked together to climb to the top.…
In recent years there has been a debate inside college athletics that centers around the true value of college athletes and whether or not a scholarship is truly enough to keep the athletes in school and ensure they get their degrees. Many athletes in Division I sports, primarily basketball and Football Bowl Subdivision college football see college as a stepping stone to either the NFL or the NBA. The NCAA tracks the graduation rates in these sports via the GSR, or Graduation Success Rate, which measures the amount of student-athletes that graduate within six years of enrollment. On October 25, 2014 the NCAA released their latest GSR study which found that FBS football student-athletes graduated at a 75% rate and men’s basketball athletes graduate…
Paige Bloskas WRIT 101-Section 112 Dr. Kerstin Rudolph Is Cheer a Sport? Many people today debate wether cheer is a sport or not. Some people stereotype a cheerleader as merely being a woman standing on the sidelines of games looking perfect, shaking their pom poms, holding signs and yelling chants for football players.…
Andrew Millán BLOCK 4 Step 4 I. Introduction Athletes make major sacrifices during their athletic career, and in 1980 they had to make the ultimate sacrifice and were forcefully withdrawn from the Olympic Games. The relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States at this time was very tense. The Soviet Union wanted to maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border, and with Afghanistan in the midst of a civil war, the Soviets would be able to support the war and influence a socialist government. The Soviets then invaded Afghanistan, and the United States responded with the threat to not send a team to the Olympics, which are to be held in Moscow, if Soviet troops are still in Afghanistan by the end of the month.…