This is the event that people all over the world watch, on television or in the arena, this is the place gold medals are earned and lost. This is the Olympics. Did you know that unmarried women could watch the ancient Olympics? Or that one person ate paper as a warm up food? Though wacky, it is true, and there is a lot more to go along with that. Welcome to the Olympics. “May the odds be ever in your favor!” - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games. Greece is the origin of the Olympics, plain and simple
since Gabrielle was young she wanted to compete in the Olympics and so she worked hard to be the best. And so her journey began to being the next best gymnast. She left to Iowa to be trained by Laing Chow, and followed her dream of being an Olympic gold medalist. The reason I chose Gabrielle Douglas was because of her hard work and dedication to gymnastics. It all started when her sister Arielle taught her how to do a cartwheel. Gabrielle then did a perfectly one handed cartwheel at four years old
Joyner was born December 21, 1959, in Los Angeles, CA. Known as the World's Fastest Woman for her standing World Record times in the 100 and 200 meter events, Florence Griffith Joyner, elevated women's track to a new level with her three gold and one silver medal-winning performances in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Growing up in Los Angeles, Joyner's career was launched in 1964, at age five, when Joyner's father challenged her to catch a jack rabbit, the fastest creature on the sand
The Olympic Games are renowned across the world for being the foremost sporting event in athletic history. Winning a medal in the Olympic Games is not only an incredible individual achievement; it is also a way for athletes to honor their home countries on one of the most visible stages the world has to offer. Through the years, some extraordinary athletes have stood out from their fellow competitors in the Games, and they are remembered in history as being some of the best athletes to ever live
Images of people dying young are viewed by many as one of the most tragic and inescapable fates imaginable. People aspire to live long and fruitful lives and would be quite appalled to have a premature death viewed in such a positive manner. However, in Alfred Edward Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” the reader is given just that, an unconventional and oddly justifiable outlook at a young man dying an early death. This theme of short-lived fame during life (and even after death) is clear throughout
Albert Pasco 5/22/14 Communication 100 Water Polo Culture Have you ever thought of how water polo came to be? Where did it come from? How does it impact people on society? Well it’s definitely one of the hardest sports to play, and it takes endurance, pain, and commitment to be in it. Water polo is essentially a culture of its own because of how people’s behavior differs from in this sport and to people who don’t play sports. How this culture began is vital of knowing why water polo is a culture
you race against the clock. The athletes will go down an icy slope on a sled on their stomach, head first. Each athlete makes four runs. Only six medals are given: 3 to women and three to men. The athlete with the quickest time of all four of their runs combined wins. Men and women compete separately so there will be a gold medal for a woman, a gold medal for a man, and so forth. If two athletes have the same time overall, they will tie and come in the same place. It is prohibited to warm a sled’s
for a decade and were coached in the finest training facilities in the world (Herb Brooks-Miracle Man). Many people are unaware of just how great the Soviet team was at this time in history (Russell). They had won eight of the past nine Olympic gold medals and five of the last seven world championships (Herb Brooks-Miracle Man). They defeated the NHL’s All-Stars, an American hockey team packed of the professional league’s star players, just the following year by a huge margin (Russell). The Soviets
Sports Ethics Vince Lombardi, most likely the best coach to ever lead a team to victory or multiple ones on a football field. His ethics sometimes questionable, but never misunderstood, were always meant to lead and encourage his team to be nothing but the best, and the best was achieved in 1967. After nine incredible winning seasons with the Green Bay Packers, Lombardi decided to retire as head coach. The Packers had dominated professional football under his direction, collecting six division
Whether it be running down that path to finish the race or through the woods or even chasing down the prey, running is a simple activity which influences many aspects of society today. Some people ran for their survival but nowadays people run for more recreational purposes. For example, in the culture aspect, people for generations passed down stories of the evolution of humans to do with running and research of how that came to be. Also in the area of fitness, running shows a positive correlation
I was born and raised in the beautiful city of Fredericton, New Brunswick. I have an older, twenty-year-old brother named Oliver who has now been living away from home for 5 years in order to pursue his hockey career. Given these circumstances, we still remain very close and continue to communicate every day. With my mother being French and my father English, they wished that I would grow up bilingual. That being said, they chose to enroll me in the local French school, École Sainte-Anne, which I
Michael Jordan once said, “I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed” (BrainyQuote). To be successful means to complete a goal or task at hand. Many people want success but do not know how to achieve it. In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell writes “To become a chess grandmaster also seems
Hwa Tai Industries Berhad is a biscuit manufacturer in Malaysia which established in 1962. After the company listed on main market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad in 1992, rapidly, the company has expanded to be one of the largest biscuits industries in the country. It produces a wide variety of superior quality biscuits. Hwa Tai own vast and comprehensive distribution network, now, it has been successfully marketed domestically and internationally. “Hwa Tai” and “Luxury” is marketed as their
What makes an American an American? Is it the accent, the clothing, the fact that you can speak the English language, or is it the fact that you were born on American soil? I believe it's certain characteristics that set us apart from other countries. The fact we are self-reliant, and competitive, and the compassion we bring to others are some, of many, American characteristics that help set us apart. These are the three characteristics that I have chosen to write about. Our self-reliance
My father once told me that he was best friends with a young man named Timothy during all their years in high school. One day during my father’s senior year, Timothy became gravely ill and he was hospitalized. Later, after doing blood tests on Timothy, he was diagnosed with AIDS and was given 3 months to live. When the student body was questioning where he had been, my father announced what had happened to Timothy. The students quickly misconceived that he was actively engaged in homosexual activities
There is no agreement on the variables relating to mental toughness, to include the definition. Some say it depends on the sport, some believe it's what athletes do while other believe it’s a player’s ability to maintain a high level of personal performance under a variety of conditions, such as when conditions are difficult, when conditions are competitively tight, or when suffering from fatigue, for example (Weinberg, Freysinger, & Mellano, 2016). Mental toughness is the mind-set to meet a challenge
remember and when we both made the United States Olympic team it was a dream come true. This year the Olympics were in Jamaica and the atmosphere of the arena was beyond fantastic. We had beaten everyone from Poland to Russia, and we had made it to the gold medal round. While we were undefeated our opponent was the undefeated Shanghai' team. Since they were known as the best team in the world we knew it was going to be a tough game, because we were only known as the dream team. Right before the game was
status in the world of freestyle motocross -- a daring discipline focusing on radical jumping tricks popular with fans of "extreme" sports -- when he launched his motorcycle into the San Francisco Bay at the 1999 Summer X Games. Travis won a gold medal there, and followed it up with another in 2000. Pastrana then stormed to the 2001 125cc Eastern Region Supercross Championship and appeared to be well on his way to another 125cc Outdoor National title when he fell hard and sustained a concussion
Standing 5ft 10 inches tall, with a professional record of 39 wins, 30 by way of knockouts, and only 6 defeats, he won the 1992 Olympic gold medal at the Barcelona summer games, and voted the 1995 “Fighter of the Year” by The Ring magazine. He was the top-rated pound for pound fighter in 1997 and 1998. He has defeated 17 world champions in his career and has amassed an amazing 10 world titles in 6 different weight divisions. He is the fighting pride of East L.A., ”El Nino De Oro” ,the one, the only
respected events, (vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise). On August 9, 2016, Biles won her first Olympic gold medal in the gymnastics team event. She went on to win three more gold medals for the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Individual All-Around, the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Vault, and the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Floor Exercise. She also captured the bronze medal in the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Balance Beam as well. She was chosen by Team U.S.A. to be the flag-bearer for the