Olympic sports

My sport is called Trampoline. In this sport gymnasts perform acrobats while jumping on the trampoline. They do stunts such as 360 spins,front flips,and backflips. All these moves could be done in 3 ways. The 3 ways are tucked,piked,and straight. Tucked is when your knees are clasped to your chest with hands. Piked is when hands are close to touching feet and arms and legs are pointed straight. Finally,straight is when your body is straight and your legs are close to each other while your arms…

Sports has become symbolic in representing national competencies where countries battle for national supremacy through international competitions (Carter 2002). Symbolically, national identity as well as national sentiments can be manifested through major sports events. In places like Catalonia in Spain, Brittany in France, or Taiwan, sports has been used to provide a sense of cultural independence. Success in particular sports has symbolically linked specific sports to specific places. For…

men have been playing sport at the same level achieving amazing things, sometimes women are preforming better than men, yet no one knows about the success they have had. The media highlights men’s sports in such a way that you hear about it on every news programs, advertisements, it takes priority over other television programs yet what about Women sport? Men’s sport is exciting and thrilling to watch. To be able to see amazing athletes doing amazing things. If women sport had a chance, then…

Swimming has become an extremely popular and well-enjoyed sport or activity. But what most people do not know is the origin of this unique sport. Swimming can be dated all the way back to ancient times as prehistoric men had to swim in order to cross large bodies of water, but there were also many written works related swimming in the Early Modern Era and moreover, swimming eventually became a competitive sport during the 19th century. The competitiveness of swimming has translated into…

1. Choose an age group to focus on for this assignment, i.e., toddlers (2-4 yrs), children (5-11 yrs), adolescents (12-17 yrs), young adults (18-25 yrs), adults (26-64 yrs), or older adults (65+ yrs). What are the physical activity recommendations for this population? For my assignment, I decided to look at the Children 5-11-year age group. It is recommended for this age group to get at least 60 minutes of daily exercise (Kolen, 2016). It is also recommended that 3 days include vigorous…

of the sports that will be showcased at the 2018 Pyeong Chang Winter Olympics from March 9-18. It is a sport for Skiing athletes that have physical disabilities. In the winter Paralympic games, this sport (along with the biathlon) is a part of two nordic skiing events. It involves cross-country skiing in short, middle, or long distances. There will be 20 medal events at this year's events. This year it will be the forty-second year of the event. The Paralympic games were originally “a sports…

used to test a male’s strength and coordination, it was also one of the first sport any Olympiad played. Even though many sports have changed drastically throughout history discus hasn’t. At first discus was used in a pentathlon which consisted of discus, jumping, wrestling, running and javelin, and now it is its own event. “The typical discus weighed between 4 ½ to 13 pounds.” Discus was eventually added to the modern Olympic games in Athens around 1896. In the early 1900’s both single handed…

child’s sport or activity can be momentous; it will either play a significant role in a child’s success or will lead to unforeseen repercussions that will play a downfall in the child’s life. Often parents try and live their dreams through their children and put a significant burden on their child for success, feeling as if they too had the success through their child. Resulting from these pressures and roles parents play on their child will either help or hinder the child’s play in his/her…

The sports industry is a multi-billion dollar forum, displaying and promoting only the best athletes in the world. This population of people includes every level or division of talent; from small high school teams to the national leagues. The amount of people participating gets smaller and smaller as they work their way up the chain. Therefore, the margin of the best athletes is even narrower. Two such talented athletes are LeBron James and Lionel Messi, who are the most popular and skilled…

100meters to go. He let Johnson to start learning how to run faster at practice so that way he will get use to his own pace before competition and for him doing that he was able to achieve his goals by breaking 400m world record, winning 400m and 200m Olympic gold medals. He also said you put in things that you think it will work for your athletes. You have to understand what your body is used to. Your body get use to stress and resistances. His athletes was focus and obedience. Jeremy, Johnson…