Olympic weightlifting

I’m here to tell you about gymnastics. Gymnastics three main products gymnasts use, are chalk powder, the chalk powder helps them control the grip. Next the handlebar grips, help them not to get rips on their palms. Gymnast use leotards when the practice, they use them because they are very stretchy. The also use team uniforms for when they compete. I’ll be explaining why gymnast use them, and how they use the products. Gymnast need chalk to compete, for many different usage. First gymnast…

Have you ever seen a national gymnast? I went to Orlando Florida for nationals in gymnastics it took 25 hours. It took forever but at least I had my friend Tamara so I was not that bored. But it was fun we went through Kansas,Alabama,Tennessee,Georgia,and of course Florida they were all cool. So as you know I went to nationals in Orlando Florida it was ok, I got 9th bars and 10th all around out of the nation that's good I think! There was a lot of people. And on the beam I…

Wrestling is one of the oldest sports. They have found cave drawings of it that dated up to 15,000 years ago. Wrestling was very popular in the Olympic games. It originated in Greece as a way to teach soldiers hand-to-hand combat. It was most popular during the middle ages. There are four ways of winning a wrestling match. One, you can win by major decision which is winning by points. Two, you can win by technical fall which is where you win by 15 points and its an automatic win. Three, you…

the Cold War. After researching the topic, I noticed the several of the references describe a link between the victory of the USA hockey team over team USSR. This helped me create my thesis which states: When team USA beat team USSR in the 1980 Olympic games, they brought home much more than a medal, they inspired their fellow American's with the hope they needed to be victorious over the Soviet Union and bring a period known as the Cold War. My next step was to decide what content to use for…

“Crack!” The sound of a baseball flying 400 feet off a bat. “Smack!” The sound of a 103 mph fastball hitting the catcher's mitt. “Whoosh!” The sound of a sprinter breaking the world record. These sounds represent what will happen if doping is legalized. Although these sounds may be more exciting to fans, steroids are not allowed in sports for a reason. Despite the positives of performance enhancing drugs, doping should not be legalized in professional sports because it would ruin the “spirit of…

problem. One point the article did make that soon as technology advances athletes that use prosthetic limbs will have an advantage one day. One scientist said,” Soon they will break all of the able bodied records”. For Prisourious to get back in the Olympics he ad to have a scientist back him up and appeal his case. The scientist said that Pristourious’s prosthetic libs were no advantage to…

What is sport, or what does it mean to be a sport? Naturally, one would begin to ponder such a question and only come up with what seems obvious. One would answer with things that seem innate to them, such as: basketball, football, baseball, or soccer. But, to respond in such manner leaves the question unanswered. That kind of answer to the question does not define what a sport is, but instances where a case is claiming to be a sport that one happens to have a level of familiarity with. Does a…

At 11.40pm on the night of 14 April 1912, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the RMS Titanic struck the iceberg that would ultimately lead to the sinking of the ship less than 3 hours later. At around 2.20am on the morning of 15 April, the Titanic disappeared beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a disaster that resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives, almost two-thirds of the people on board. Titanic Facts aims to tell the story in a comprehensive and clear way, and…

106 years ago the tragedy struck; and 706 people sat on lifeboats or clung onto chairs and boards for their lives, while others said their final words on a ship once called unsinkable. People watched as the grand ship split in half after hitting an iceberg. The bow split from the stern and spiraled down to the bottom of the Atlantic, not to be found for another 73 years by Robert Ballard. The stern stuck up in the air and went down under the sea like an “elevator.” It wasn’t nature’s fault, so…

Gene doping is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as “the transfer of genes or genetically modified cells into an individual as a potential method for illicitly enhancing athletic performance.” It is is a relatively new method of modifying the human genome for the purpose of increasing athletic performance. Gene doping can be traced back to research presented in the late 1990’s concerning genetic modification of skeletal muscles (Barton-Davis et al., 1998; McPherron et al., 1997). The research…