Special Olympics

Muslim women have been around for decades competing in World Championship and in the Olympics. Just now the world is starting to recognize them and bring it to light. Ronni and I have the opportunity to have Muslim decent teammates. All these stereotypes and stigmas about Muslims are definitely challenged and not applicable to these women…

The article titled Athletic Scholarships discusses the beginning of volleyball and how it was originally referred to as mintonette. Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G Morgan in Holyoke, Massachusetts. William Morgan was a graduate of Springfield College of YMCA (n.d). In another article called History of Volleyball it mentions that Morgan was trying to invent something that was less strenuous than basketball for older people, so they could exercise without overdoing it (n.d). Morgan…

sport industry has been consistently growing and unique. The country of India is also very active in participating in international sporting events, such as the Olympics. The purpose of this paper is to give a summary on India, and to inform how they view sports in their country by looking at their sport structure, their various Olympic committees, the culture in their sport participation, and their history of hosting sport mega events. History, Background and India Characteristics India is a…

In what way is sport and national identity linked? Introduction Nowadays, national identity has been highlighted through a significant part of culture, namely, sport (Bairner, 2008). According to Oxford Dictionaries, national identity is ‘A sense of a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture and language’. Particularly, it is a sense of belonging to a nation or state (Bairner, 2003) although there are controversial arguments on the concept. As Edensor (2007)…

Also, I believe that the impact of sport spectacles have a mixed impact of some positive and some negative. A positive aspect would be the emotions, and fun environment being created with everyone coming together to celebrate this special event whether they are on the losing side, winning side, or not a fan at all. The negative aspect is the heath part, it is a known thing that part of watching these big events is pigging out on food like pizza, wings, beer, chips and more unhealthy…

2004 film that tells the true story of the 1980 United States Men’s Hockey team as they prepare and compete in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. Herb Brooks, former player now the head coach, along with his assistant coach Craig Patrick, take on the difficult task of putting together a team of young men. At this time NHL players were not allowed to play in the Olympics, so Brooks was forced to assemble a group of college players to compete against the best world has to offer. The…

There are countless versions of the story on the Olympic- Class Ocean Liner; The RMS Titanic. The “RMS Titanic” is an article written by Hanson W. Baldwin in 1934, and A Night To Remember is a movie produced in 1958 by William MacQuitty. Both plots discuss and portray the dramatic events that happened on April 15, 1912. The world’s largest “lifeboat” (MacQuitty. W.) set sail on April 10, 1912 on its maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York. However, the voyage was abruptly halted when it…

Last year I participated in my first long-distance triathlon – Ironman . It is one of the most difficult sporting events in the world and I managed to finish the race. Once again I reached best personal result in swimming while the rest… nothing special . Well I wasn’t the last one in the competition, my result was amongst the best 30% of all participants, which was more than expected. I was planning to participate also this year, but didn`t manage to organize everything in time. Woke up too…

athletes because if a coach is yelling to another teammate across the field or court the deaf athlete might think he/she is yelling at them. The coach has to communicate with the deaf player or other wise they will be left out. Some teams even develop special tapping codes. The hearing teammates can tap the deaf athlete with a certain code to signal a specific play. For example 3 taps on the deaf athletes forearm could signify the athlete setting a pick on number 3. In 2008 Erich Krogman…

Tumbling Into the Olympics There are over 4.5 million registered cheerleaders across the world. (“History of Cheerleading”) I was one of those cheerleaders for the last six years. The hard work and dedication it takes to withstand the toll of this sport requires a determined spirit and a withstanding soul. Cheerleading has continued to show its extreme popularity among young women and men not only in the United States, but also across the world with a constantly growing number of countries that…