HistoryModern pentathlon has been on every Olympic program since 1912. A men's team event was held from 1952 - 1992 Originally the competition took place over four or five days; however in 1996 a one-day format was adopted in an effort to be more spectator-friendly. A women's event was...
Worthy of note, and of particular concern, is the limited consultation with important interest groups, particularly environmentalists and the citizenry, when creating an elite sporting entertainment centre.doi:10.1080/09523367.2012.761003CoxRichardInternational Journal of the History of Sport...
Modern Pentathlon: A Centenary History: 1912–2012 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 13 作者:Cox,Richard 摘要: The National Tennis Centre in Melbourne, Australia, occupies a symbolic role in the repositioning of a once rust-belt' city as a place for footloose' capital and tourism. This ...
modern pentathlon词源英文解释 The first known use of modern pentathlon was circa 1912 modern pentathlon 例句 1.Equestrian and modern pentathlon competitions will take place at the Palace of Versailles, one of the emblems of French royal history. ...
becomes a household name after winning gold in the pentathlon and decathlon and taking fourth in the high jump and seventh in the long jump. But controversy surrounds Thorpe: He’s disqualified for playing for a resort baseball team a few years before the Games, a violation of IOC rules (th...
Modern pentathlon consists of five events: pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3200m cross-country run. Fencing, swimming and show jumping are the first three events, and they are scored on points. The points will then be converted...
Pentathlon, Modern a sports contest involving five events: namely, a steeplechase, fencing with épées (bouts are fought until the first touch with each participant in the competition), rapid-fire shooting from a small-caliber pistol (20 shots in four series), swimming (300-m freestyle), ...
After 13 Olympiads, two more races joined the stade as Olympic events: the diaulos (roughly equal to today’s 400-meter race), and the dolichos (a longer-distance race, possibly comparable to the 1,500-meter or 5,000-meter event). The pentathlon (consisting of five events: a foot race...
Modern Pentathlon is really modern fusion (in sense of mid 70-s) album, keyboards -led and heavily influenced by Chick Corea/RTF. Very relaxed, even funky in moments, but with European traditions (and even Eastern European melodic influences) this album's music is excellent example of high ...
World Pentathlon is hoping that ditching the equestrian event will increase the sport’s popularity. Replacing it with the obstacle run is part of a growing trend in the Olympics to add truly modern events intended to appeal to younger viewers, like breaking, skateboarding and surfing. ...