In organized sports‚ match fixing‚ race fixing or sports fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result‚ violating the rules of the game and often the law. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident is referred to as race fixing. Games that are deliberately lost are sometimes called thrown games. When a team intentionally loses a game‚ or does not score as high as it can‚ to obtain a perceived future competitive advantage (for instance
Premium Black Sox Scandal Chicago White Sox Sports betting
Introduction For my Personal Exercise Programme coursework I have chosen Badminton as my sport‚ the reason behind this is I enjoy playing it with my friends in sport centres as well as watching the sport. This sport is a fast moving energetic game where a lot of thinking is required. In order to play this game you need 2-4 players. This is a game where a net is required which is used for the shuttlecock to be returned over the net. History The exact origin of the game‚ tracing back to ancient
Premium Badminton Tennis
“The Cricket Match” Samuel Selvon’s short story‚ “The Cricket Match” explores the subtle racial tensions amongst West Indian immigrants living in England whilst working with English counterparts. Selvon sets his narrative in a tyre factory in Chiswick‚ England. Most likely‚ the timeline in which this story occurs is somewhere in the mid 1950’s when England were still colonists of most of the English speaking Caribbean islands. The main idea behind Selvon’s tale lies with Algernon the protagonist
Premium Test cricket Cricket English people
team is Australia‚[1] followed by One Day International cricket‚ whose last World Cup was also won by Australia; the tournament was televised in over 200 countries to a viewing audience estimated at more than two billion viewers.[2][3] A cricket match is contested by two teams‚ usually of eleven players each[4] and is played on a grass field in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20 m) long called a pitch. A wicket‚ usually made of wood‚ is placed at each end of the pitch and
Premium Major League Baseball Baseball National League
implanted would increase the popularity of badminton in Australia. This topic is worthy of study over the last eight weeks I have been taking part in research while playing badminton at school. Throughout this time I have been concerned about the perception of the game of badminton among students at the college and the lack of participation in the game in the wider community. In order to complete this task this report will clearly demonstrate that badminton is a low profile sport in Australia and
Premium Australia
The History of Badminton Written By: LaTeisha Nesbitt In this essay‚ you will learn about the history of badminton and how to play badminton. Badminton started in China and spreaded throughout the world. Before the game was officially called "Badminton"‚ it was called alot of other names. When I first learned how to play‚ it was hard but after awhile it became easy to play. You can play badminton indoor or outdoors. Baminton started of as a game that involves simply kicking the shuttle called
Premium Badminton
The cricket match and the concert afterwards are two highly significant incidents in L.P. Hartley’s novel‚ The Go-Between. These events mark the passage of Leo’s growth into manhood. At the cricket match Leo changes from being a spectator sitting on the sidelines to taking an active role. He has to deal with the responsibility of making the great catch. While doing so he learns of various underlying factors in the behaviour of the adults. The experience is in some ways repeated in the concert where
Premium Social class Cricket Singing
Badminton is a game that involves the use of a net‚ lightweight rackets‚ and a shuttlecock. Two or four players play it‚ which is played indoors‚ on a marked-out area 44 ft (13.41 m) long by 17 ft (5.18 m) wide for the two-player game and 20 ft (6.10 m) wide for the four-player game. A net is fixed across the middle of the court‚ with the top of the net set at 5 ft (1.52 m) from the ground at the centre and 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) at the posts. The players hit the shuttlecock back and forth over the net
Premium Badminton Play
SAFETY Warm up – Warming up before playing a game of badminton is vital to reduce the changes of a muscle or joint injury. To start a warm up a ‘pulse raiser’ must be done involving some form of continuous aerobic exercise to increase the heart rate. This could be a jog around the area being used‚ or if working with smaller children a game such as stuck in the mud is good to get their hearts pumping. After this it’s a good idea to do some dynamic stretches (such as sumos‚ lunges‚ etc) followed by
Premium Tennis Play Badminton
History of Badminton A badminton like game was known in ancient Greece and Egypt - a game called battledore and shuttlecock - in which two players hit a feathered shuttlecock back and forth with tiny rackets. The game was called "Poona" in India during the 18th Century. In the 1860s it was adopted by British Army officers stationed in India. The officers took the game back to England‚ where it became a success at a party given by the Duke of Beaufort in 1873 at his estate called "Badminton" in Gloucestershire
Premium Badminton