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    A$300mn was generated by local business. Over 55‚000 people received employment related training. If London hosted the Olympic games‚ thousands of UK firms could be involved in supplying everything from construction to manufacturing‚ catering to merchandise. (http://www.sportengland.org/2012_uk.htm) Boost to tourism The tourist industry won’t just boom during the four weeks that the Olympic and Paralympic games actually take place‚ but for months and years before and after the event. Price Waterhouse

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    with the fresh upbeat 2014 winter Olympic news. Shannon: Today we will be focusing on hockey legend Sidney Crosby‚ who secured Canada’s record fourteenth gold medal of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics when he scored the golden goal. Nazlie: The Team Canada roster has been released for the upcoming Olympic Games and it has been revealed that Crosby will represent Canada on the men’s ice hockey team in Sochi this February. This will be his second Winter Olympics that he has participated in and hopefully

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    trudgen to Western swimming competitions‚ after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans. Due to a British dislike of splashing‚ Trudgen employed a scissor kick instead of the front crawl’s flutter kick. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 Richmond Cavill introduced the front crawl to the Western world. In 1908‚ the world swimming association‚ Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA)‚ was formed. Butterfly was developed in the 1930s and was at first

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    Safety In Weightlifting

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    A most common mistake committed by those who start weightlifting is overwork. There is that inner impulse that tells you be like that muscle man next to you in the quickest way possible. So you lift more‚ strain your muscles more and you overwork yourself. The consequence? Torn muscles and tendons and diminished self esteem. Thus‚ it is important to follow safety in weightlifting to avoid such things from happening. The concept of weight lifting is simply to increase muscle activities and speed

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    Winning Heights in the Men’s Olympic High Jumps Introduction: The Olympics are an international sporting event that is held every four years where people from around the world send their best athletes to compete and see who the best of the best is when it comes to sports. The Olympics date back to Ancient Greece where their basic events included track and field‚ which are like men’s high jump which is the topic of this report. In this problem we are looking at the data collected from the gold

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    Anatomy and body type plays a significant role in determining the proper weightlifting strategy; there is no one weightlifting plan that would work for all members in a group‚ not only because people have different physical traits‚ but also different diet and living habits. There are three major body types: Ectomorph‚ endomorph and mesomorph. People who are described as Ectomorphs usually have lean muscle mass; they have small frames and do not gain weight easily‚ and therefore‚ have a slim appearance

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    The Olympic Games - London 2012 London is one of the great and most diverse world cities – and that means it’s always growing and changing. Winning the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games has provided a boost to London’s renewal‚ giving the opportunity to enhance and accelerate existing plans‚ and making new projects possible. The Games will take place throughout July – September 2012: Olympics takes place 27th July – 12th August Paralympics takes place 29th August

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    Weightlifting Essay

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    The Affects of Weight Lifting on High School Athletes Is weightlifting a good thing or bad thing for student athletes? Weightlifting is the activity of lifting heavy objects for exercise. These objects consist of barbells or other heavy weights. Weight training is a type of strength training. This is done to improve the strength and size of skeletal muscles. Some would say they are the same thing as both are used to build muscles. The difference between the two is weight lifting uses heavy

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    Student Name: You can help improve your performance in physical activities by improving specific areas of skill related fitness. Please define a measurable physical activity goal related to a specific area of skill related fitness you would like to improve that relates to improving your performance in a specific activity. Goal: I aspire to practice my coordination for basket ball no later than June 25‚ 2013. I believe this will help learn how to not travel while playing and to learn how to run

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    The 1936 Summer Olympics‚ officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad‚ was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin‚ Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona‚ Spain on April 26‚ 1931. Nazi Germany saw this as an opportunity to show a positive image of the third Reich to the rest of the world. The Olympics were a perfect arena for the Nazi propaganda machine‚ which was unsurpassed at staging elaborate public spectacles and rallies. Choreographed

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