Pentathlon

How many people in the world have not heard of the Olympics? Not many. Olympic athletes come from nearly every country in the world and have all different talents. Athletes like these have been around for a very long time and will continue to stay around. They started out in the Ancient Olympics with sports like the Chariot Races and the Javelin throw, but have moved on to things like gymnastics and figure skating. Despite being very different from Modern Olympics, the Ancient Olympics were…

both the pentathlon and the decathlon. The pentathlon for the 1912 Olympic games consisted of the long jump, javelin throw, 200 meter dash, discus throw and a 1500 meter race. The decathlon on the other hand consisted of the 100 meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 meter dash, discus throw, 110 meter hurdles, pole vault, javelin throw and 1500 meter run. He won the trials for these two events, easily qualifying for the 1912 Olympic games. Along with the deahlon and pentathlon, Jim…

“This is it,” thought Achilles, “I have been training for this day for the past olympiads, I must win.” In 608 BC Achilles saw the first ever olympics right in this same stadium, and fell in love. So he made the decision to compete in the next pentathlon olympics. He trained day and…

The Ancient Olympics Ever thought about when was the Olympics created, where it originated or why was it created? How many sports were included and what were the roles of women during this vital period in history? The Ancient Olympic were based on religious beliefs, filled with many competitive sports and had stringent rules for women during the games (Goldman). The first ancient Olympics started in 776 B.C. ancient Greece. The event was very important to the Greeks and it was so special that…

Everyone has heard of the Olympic Games. Many countries meet together in competitions to show their strength in many different categories. Whether it is winter or summer, there’s always something to cheer about. Every four years we cheer for the United States in snowboarding, gymnastics, etc., but how many of us know about the very first Olympic Games? Not many people could tell you much about them, so that is what this article is about. The first recorded Olympic Games took place in Greece in…

teleology of high perspicacity. More researches on song translation have been conducted abroad with many foreign song translation scholars putting forwards strategies and criteria for song translation. One of the most famous work is Peter Low's pentathlon translation strategy, which contains five criteria in song translation namely the singability, sense, naturalness, rhythm and rhyme of translated…

in the 100 meter, 200 meter, and 4x100 meter relay. She became the first american woman to win 3 medals in 1 Olympic games. The star of the 1912 Olympic games held in Stockholm was Jim Thorpe an American Indian who won both the decathlon and pentathlon. Jim died 29 years after he was officially pardoned by the IOC. In the year 1920,…

ancient Greece where it was 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…

do well on the exam for the U.S. Military Academy. General Patton had an education at U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Patton graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1909, married Beatrice Mayer in 1910, and competed in the pentathlon at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. In 1917, Patton became the first member of the newly established United States Tank Corps, where he served until the Corps were abolished in 1920. Using his family’s connections,…

Not very many people know that the Olympics were an important part of Greek history. No other country had anything like it. The Ancient Olympic Games were an important and interesting part of Greek history because it influenced Greek art, it affected Roman relations with the Greeks and it inspired the Olympics today. At first the ancient Olympics were only held for one day, but in 472 b.c., it expanded to five events (Middleton 2). The ancient Olympics began in 700 b.c (Middleton 2). The…