ASTANA — Kazakhstan’s national team is preparing to participate in the Summer Olympics for the eighth time, with the Paris Games just around the corner. Photo credit: Telegram channel of the Kazakhstan’s team The Telegram channel of Kazakhstan’s team has published interesting statistics on...
James B. Connolly (United States), winner of the hop, step, and jump (the first final event in the 1896 Olympics), was the first Olympic champion of themodern Olympic Games. The First Marathon In 490 BCE, Pheidippides, a Greek soldier, ran from Marathon to Athens (about 25 miles) to...
I have been dreaming about being an Olympian ever since I knew what the Olympics were. I’m just waiting for someone to pinch me. Getting to represent the United States is something we won’t take lightly. We want everyone that tunes in to be proud of the effort and fight and sportsman...
A.SoftballandbaseballgamescametotheOlympicsatthesametime.B.Abaseballisdifferentfromasoftball.C.FewAustraliansareinterestedinsurfing.TherearesomeinterestingsportsattheParisOlympics.Let'slearnaboutsomeofthemtogether!Baseball& SoftballBaseballstartedinthe1480sinBritain,butlateritgotverypopularintheUSA.Itcametothe...
Interesting facts about the Dakar RallyThe organizer of the legendary Paris-Dakar auto marathon is the French motorcyclist Thierry Sabin. In… ... Sports - Rowing and CanoeingDo not forget that for many sport is business, training and training is aimed not… ... Meldoni: scandals, rumors, ...
There are some interesting sports at the Paris Olympics. Let’s learn about some of them together! Baseball &Softball Baseball started in the 1480s in Britain, but later it got very popular in the USA. It came to the Olympics in 1992 for the first time. Softball started in the 1880s...
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Football, or soccer, is Chile’s most popular sport. The Chilean men’s soccer team won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Famously, in 1990, the men’s national soccer team walked out in the middle of a qualifying game against Brazil after their goalkeeper, “El Condor” Rojas...
For more interesting facts about Liu Xiang read on. 1. Liu Xiang won the First Olympics Hurdles Gold for China Image by Eckhard Pecher (Arcimboldo) from Wikimedia Xiang (sheeahang) means “to soar” in Chinese. Liu Xiang won the gold medal in 110-meter hurdles at the 2004 Athens Summer...
Golf had its Olympic debut at the Summer Olympics in 1900 in Paris, but already after the second participation removed from the Olympic program because it was not popular – only two countries competed. Luckily, in 2009 at the Congress in Copenhagen , golf had received a “green light” to...