Summer Olympic Games

The Ancient Olympics was the most religious festival in ancient times held in Olympia, Greece to honor the gods by sacrifice, dedication, and victory. The Olympic games were played to recognize and respect the gods that the Greeks worshipped and they did this by sacrificing their valuable possessions to the gods. On the first day of the Olympics, a sacrifice of one hundred oxen was made to start off the Olympics. Not only did the Greeks devote their lives to Olympic gods but worshipped their…

The goal of every taekwondo olympic fighter is to master a kick you know will knock out your opponent. The most common one and the I am testing is a Round kick, is a kick where the attacker swings their leg around in a semicircular motion, striking with the top of the foot. There is a lot more that goes into the perfect kick than most think. What is the perfect angle? What is the perfect distance away from the opponent? What is the perfect speed of the kick? These are all things that go into a…

Athletic tapes find an ubiquitous use and application If you take a look at the sports channels, you can be puzzled to think that the athletes may be falling apart as, suddenly, everybody from Andy Murray to Shane Watson is taped up. Are the complex weaves of multi-hued Kinesiology tape an indisputable forward leap in the handling of sports injuries? Or is it intended to be everywhere at the major sports? Kinesio tapes, the tough elasticized tapes, were developed over 30 years back by a…

Anshu Jamsenpa the first women to ever climb Mount Everest twice in 5 days! Mother of 2 and at the age of 38 she broke a world record and made global headlines. When she became the first woman to conquer the 29,028-feet-tall Mount. The first thing Anshu told everyone was "I always think that I am very close to god, I am getting a blessing, I only feel that whenever I am at the top." So that is the main reason why she loves climbing Mount Everest. To be able to climb Mount Everest there is a…

Tasmania, the boys hooked up all at once on JB Lures (the jigs can be seen in the picture). Sam took 1 hour, 50 minutes to land a 246.92-pound southern bluefin tuna; Toby required 3 1/2 hours to land a 262.35-pounder. Both beat the existing International Game Fish Association world records for their age departments. Sam's tuna certifies as a junior world record (ages 11-16) while Toby's certifies as a small fry world record (10 and under).…

Virginia’s coast is seen as the highlight of the state. The only gem that should be protected at all cost. So we pour millions of dollars to beautify the beach and bring in more people. We do this because in the end more people means more money. This mentality has made us blind to the fact that we have other wetlands in far greater danger than the beach. Marshes and swamps are just as valuable in what they offer the community. Factoring in the knowledge makes wetlands worth saving, not for the…

Special Olympics The name of the website I am reviewing is Special Olympics. The intent of the site is to inform people on what the Special Olympics is, what they do and how you can get involved. The target audience that this website is focusing on is, people that want to become and athlete, become a volunteer, a coach, or people that want to know where the Special Olympics events are. There is also an opportunity to donate to the Special Olympics foundation if someone was looking to support the…

“professional” wrestling you see on television with the goofy costumes, silly names and the use of props. Well, the real sport of wrestling dates back to before the first olympic games were held back in ancient Greece in 776 B.C. The sport of wrestling was actually the sport that started the great thing today that we call the olympics. Wrestling has many components that people would not think about, including maintaining a special diet to drop weight and reduce body fat, how the sport scoring…

before WW1. Louie was unruly as a child, he got into fist fights and was essentially the town bully. His brother; Pete got tired of his act and decided to change him by making him a runner. Years later, Louie makes the fastest finish in the 1936 Olympics, and eventually ended up in a POW camp made by the Japanese during WW2. In the book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, the protagonist; Louie, is rebellious and resourceful for many reasons. Louie as a teen, was extremely rebellious, he…

When in fact PED use has been occurring though out history starting back as early as the time of ancient Greece. As we see in this academic study, published in National Center of Biotechnology Information, that,” Ancient Greek Olympic athletes dating back to the third century BC used various brandy and wine concoctions and ate hallucinogenic mushrooms and sesame seeds to enhance performance. Various plants were used to improve speed and endurance, while others were taken to mask…