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Mentions of sled competing first appeared in accounts from Norway in 1480 and the Erz Mountain province in 1552. The first worldwide luge race took place in February 1883 with 21 participants in lieu of six nations, as well as the United States. The four-kilometer race, from the Swiss resorts of St. Wolfgang to Klosters, and prearranged by inns in Davos, was won by Georg Robertson, a scholar from Australia, and Peter Minch, a mailman from Klosters, who each raced to an indistinguishable first…

History of Track and Field Track and field is one of the oldest sports in the world, and throughout the years it has evolved in so many different ways.Track and field began in 776 BC, and that is also when the Olympic Games began. "Athletic Scholarships. (http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-track-and-field.htm) When track and field began there was only one event and it wasn 't even a running event. Gender, in track and field, was very different back then than it is today and has…

Sports nutrition is a lucrative business, has athletes are wanting to be the best and anything they can do that could help even shave a fraction of their times or increase strength could be the difference between a gold medal or a silver medal. Top athletes are prepared to pay a lot to have this edge even if it may do harm to the body. Diet can have a massive effect on the performance of an athlete and many nutritional therapists are specializing in sports nutrition, trying to find the best diet…

It’s a sport with hundreds of clouds, but even more silver linings. Some come to crew and let it into their lives, and it stays with them forever. Others come to rowing and it changes them into a completely different person. Others seek rowing as a refuge and it helps them survive. We all love the sport and…

the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers. Ford was named to the honor society both in the ¨All-City¨ and ¨All-State¨ football teams. In 1935, he was named to Sports Illustrated Silver anniversary for the All-American football team. With that honor he was able to receive the National Football Foundation’s gold medal, and that’s the highest honor that someone can…

life. These excerpts were eventually developed into a book with the help of his friend, Jim DeFelice. His qualifications are also made evident by the US military commendations he received which include: two Silver stars, five Bronze stars with Valor, two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, and one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation. Summary Many people would do whatever they need to in order to protect their families, but in a more general sense... Would a majority be willing to kill…

There I was, finishing my junior year, I still had no idea what to do after my senior year, being honest I was a little scared because when people are young, they can easily say “I want to be a cop, Nurse, doctor...ext.” But when you get to your last years you wish they never end. I had so many things on my mind, so many ideas what I wanted to be, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. A lifetime sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? I was going for vacation to my native country during summer…

she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships followed by her second place in the World Championships and she is also the second women to complete a triple axel jump in the competition. At the Winter Olympic Games in 1992, she was able to take a silver medal at the world championships in Albertville, France and in the following year 1994, she was banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Association after pleading guilty to her hindering the prosecution…

Andor Kertesz was born July 2 1894 in Budapest to the middle class of Jewish family of Lipot Kertesz that was a bookseller, and his wife Ernesztin Hoffmann. Andor was known as Bandi by his friends. He was the middle child of three sons including Imre and Jeno. When Lipot died in 1908 from tuberculosis, Ernesztin was without a source of income to support their three children. Her brother Lipot Hoffmann provided for the boys and also acted like a father to the boys. They soon moved to Hoffmanns…

"Mighty Martha", a pillar of the village's community. Martha "was the only famous person ever to be born in the village. She had won an Olympic silver medal for throwing the discus over twenty years before". This tells us that Martha is one of the most important people in the village. She is clearly a strong character, as she managed to receive a silver medal for throwing the discus. It also tells us that this village does not have many events, as she is still famous tot hem, twenty years after…