A generation of Suffolk Sporting talent inspired by Olympic flame The Suffolk Youth Games completed its inspirational journey from the millennium to the Olympics yesterday and bowed out in a blaze of glory as the Olympic Torch visited the closing ceremony. Around 800 young people representing Suffolk’s sporting future converged on Bury St Edmunds on Saturday 7th July for the thirteenth staging of the Redrow Homes Suffolk Youth Games. The event‚ organised by Suffolk Sport‚ the County Sports Partnership
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Olympic Games The Olympic Games started off as a series of athletic events to honor the gods. The games have begun in the early 700 BC in honor of the god Zeus. No women were allowed to watch the games and only Greek nationals could participate. The games were held every four years. In honor of the god Zeus a statue was built out of gold and ivory by a Greek sculptor. In the games 100 oxen were sacrificed and many athletes would make sacrifices themselves. In the games boxing was a brutal sport
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as Tetris or the ever so popular Candy Crush. Nearly everyone participates to some degree of video gaming. Gaming now‚ believe it or not is considered as an actual professional sport. Hell‚ Gaming on a computer could mean earning a medal in the Olympics in the near future! Congrats guys‚ the world is slowly turning into a utopia for dweebies‚ geeks and noobs. Regardless of how you feel about gaming‚ it unfortunately has become a social activity as common as a pick-up game of basketball or a
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The modern Olympics is an international event where both men and women participate in a certain sport to represent the country they originated from. To facilitate the modern Olympics as we know it today‚ the Olympic movement‚ which dated from 1892 to 2002‚ was shaped by many things. A few examples are nationalism‚ gender‚ economics‚ and diplomacy. Gender is an important factor that shaped the Olympic movement because it shows how women slowly progress from a lower social rank to equality between
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Discontinued Olympic Sports All questions True or False. 1. In the Underwater Swimming at the Paris Olympics of 1900‚ with 2 points for every meter swum‚ and 1 point for every second underwater‚ the 3rd place getter remained submerged for 30 seconds longer than the winner but lost on distance because he swam in a circle. 2. The French cricket team in the same 1900 Paris Olympics consisted mainly of British Embassy staff on a day off. 3. Cricket remained a popular Olympics sport into the 1930’s
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When and where was the first Modern Olympic Games held? How many countries and athletes participated? How many countries and athletes competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and 2010 Vancouver Games? 1896 Summer Olympics was the 1st celebration of the modern Olympic Games. They had 14 nations participating and 241 athletes competed. In Beijing in 2008‚ there were 204 nations that competed with 10‚942 athletes. In 2010‚ the Vancouver Games had 82 countries competing with 2566 athletes.
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In my previous speech about the Olympic Games‚ I introduced the topic and gave a brief history including the first recorded Olympics‚ how the International Olympic Committee was formed‚ and the first Winter Olympic games. In this speech‚ I am going to cover a little more history and some records that have contributed to the athletic showcase we know today. Main Points: * When I think of the Olympics‚ one of the first images to pop into my head is the Olympic rings. The interlocking colors of
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Olympics and the Hosts Major sports events like the Olympics are often seen as a potential source of economic regeneration. Yet‚ many are worried about the economic costs of hosting a major sporting event that only lasts for three weeks. These are some of the economic benefits and potential costs of the Olympics. Major sporting events usually require upgrades to transport and communication links. This investment leaves a lasting legacy for the whole economy. Better transport links reduce congestion
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Meghan Strong Mrs. Wamsganz English 21 May 2013 Special Olympics Would you say people with disablilities are less fortunate? Would you say they aren’t capable of things that an everyday person are? No‚ it’s not that they are less fortunate or uncapable‚ but are carriers of unique gifts and talents. The Special Olympics started off only as a summer camp for those with intellectual disabilities. The camp was created to test and discover the phyical and mental abilities of these special
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Mitchell September 6‚ 2012 Olympics: Worldwide Forum Rhetoric is defined as “the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing” and “language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience”. It can also refer to describing meaning as a whole or “a vehicle for meaning whose aim is often to identify‚ inform‚ or persuade an audience.” The Summer Olympics and rhetoric do not sound like they have anything to do with each other‚ but in fact‚ the Olympics is one of the most communicated
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