Swimming at the Olympics

ancient civilization. First, they created the Olympics, at first it was a 1 day festival to honor Zeus in 776 B.C, then it changed in 472 B.C to a 5-day event of competitive athletic games that attracted athletes from all social classes. Second, they created different types of art. They made sculptures from stone, marble, and bronze. Lastly, they were great architects. They constructed buildings with huge columns. The Olympic Games The Olympic games were sporting games that only took…

about may come as a surprise to many because they do not associate him with mental illness. It is Michael Phelps, competitive swimmer and most highly decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals (23 of them gold). Phelps was only 15 when he made his Olympic debut in Sydney in 2000. Although he didn't medal the first time around, the teenager put the world on notice when he finished fifth in the 200-meter butterfly final. He would go on to win eight medals in Athens, eight in Beijing, six in…

The Olympics originally started as a series of competitions between representatives from cities in Ancient Greece. The events were mainly athletic, but also included combat and racing. The Olympics were held every four years and this period, known as Olympiad, The winners were also immortalized through the construction of statues. The Olympic Games reached their peak in Ancient Greece during the 5th and 6th centuries BC. Various attempts were made to revive the games during the early 1700’s…

and Sadie Jorgensen in Angie Abdou’s novel The Bone Cage, the reader quickly learns the difference between becoming an athlete and becoming an Olympian. Both of these Olympic hopefuls put their lives on hold in order to hopefully achieve this standard of greatness. Neither person has long term goals for the future after the Olympics, they subsist week to week and both have sacrificed the majority of their lives for the opportunity…

there are more sports for them to play while they are in the swimming pool? We could do surfing in the pool, basketball, football. The schools that have swimming as a sport should make it to where they can be able to play sports while swimming because they can get more people to join, get fit, and that the kids may get too competitive. Altho it would probably be hard to do football in the pool, we could get way more kids to start swimming. When the kids are playing football, basketball,…

To be straightforward, the Olympic Games are an international sports competition in which more than 13,000 athletes from over 200 countries compete in a variety of events. But when the history behind the Games, the entertainment witnessed by the spectators, and the dedication of the athletes are taken into consideration, the Games become more than just the greatest athletes competing on the world’s largest stage, they transform into a place for unity, sportsmanship, and extreme competition. For…

the competition due to such a large number of worthy competitors for the Games. The Olympics were first created in ancient Greece and the very first Olympic Games were held in Athens in 776 B.C. This contest, mainly for men, consisted of all physical activities such as running, jumping, and wrestling. Other events included javelin and eventually chariot races, horseback riding, and boxing (Miller). The Olympics were very famous in the times of ancient Greeks and buildings and monuments were…

no matter the cost. Fast forward to the start of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, PEDs had evolved into the use of cocaine, heroin and caffeine being mixed together…

Three years old. Donovan was three years old when I walked into the Child Development room at Bayard Rustin High School. As my eyes began to scan the room, I saw Donovan sitting on the carpet playing by himself. With his head cocked up at me, my mind confirmed what my eyes saw. The three-year-old boy sitting in front of me was wearing hearing aids. As he made the dinosaur’s mouth open and close, I pretended it was eating my finger. Donovan thought this was hilarious. His contagious laugh caught…

towards swimming, main achievements and life lessons. TEXT: Your colleagues have nominated you for Inspiration of the Month in August, based on your outstanding performance in swimming. Please tell us how did you start swimming and why did you choose it? Actually I started to swim quite late in my childhood, I was about 12 years old at that time. But three years ago I realized that I would like to participate in a triathlon competition, but what prevented me to finish the race was swimming.…