The modern Olympics we see are often held up as a continuation of the first games. While the basic idea of sporting events is common to both, there is much that is different.
What Is Ping Pong?
Table tennis is a sport where two players hit a ball back and forth to each other, with a racket on a table, in a manner similar to tennis. The rules are slightly different, but the concept is essentially the same. Table tennis is an Olympic sport, “ping-pong” is the recreational version of the same sport. Spin, speed and strategy play an important part in competitive table tennis matches. The speed of the ball can vary from slow spinny serves to fast smashes that travel as f…
Video Replay A Positive For Fencing
One of the changes to fencing at the World Cup level is the advent of video replay review of touches. This came into play after the Chinese men’s foil team felt that the referee in their gold medal bout was favoring the Italian team.
Table Tennis – Importance Of Good Footwork!
One of the most frustrating experiences in Table Tennis can be playing someone who imitates a wall and sends every ball you hit right back at you!
Aggressive blockers must be handled with care, since any lapses in concentration on your part will be swiftly punished with lightning counter-attacks. You can’t afford to let up against these guys at all – you must stick to your game plan at all costs. Every weak attack or bad push that you make will cost you. I’ll talk a bit mo…
Sabre Fencing Is Fast And Exciting
Sabre fencing is the fast-paced member of the sport of fencing most like old fashioned sword fighting in battlefield conditions. The saber is the “big daddy” in fencing equipment and the largest and heaviest weapon. It is a true sword with sides with an edge, unlike the epee and foil.
Record Setting Season For Us Men’s Sabre
The race to Olympic qualification is like the Indy 500. The race is a rolling start where you get to carry the momentum from prior tournaments into the race. In terms of Olympic qualification, things are looking good for the US Men’s Sabre team as they are off to a torrid pace for the first half of the 2007 World Cup Season.
How Fencers Qualify For The Beijing Olympic Games
The Olympics are in Beijing in 2008, how are the teams chosen for the fencing competition?
France Records Win In Women’s Epee At World Championships
France won the Women’s Epee team competition, crushing the home town Russian team 45-37 in the gold medal bout. Germany earned bronze with a 42-40 win over Estonia. In epee, fencers attempt to earn points by hitting their opponents 1/24th of a second before they get hit. The event simulates a duel to first blood and is the only fencing discipline in which both fencers can score a point on the same action.
USA Cycling Announces Team for World Championships
On March, 2006, USA Cycling announced the team that will represent America in the 2006 Union Cycliste Internationale Track Cycling World Championships. This event will be held from April 13 through April 16 and will be hosted in Bordeaux, France.
The Olympic Games – A Brief (And Bizarre) History
The modern day Olympic games are a world-wide sensation second to none, thanks in no small part to the constant parade of scams and deceit. But see the bigger picture, through the eyes of its obscure and humorous past, and you will see that not much has changed.
The Olympic Games The History Of The Olympic Games
Olympics or The Olympic Games is a multi-sports event which takes place once in four years and comprises of winter and summer games. It is an international event and almost all the countries in the globe participate in the games.
The first Olympic game was held in the year 776 BC in Olympia, Greece. The games were held in Greece till 393 AD. Subsequently in 1896, Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, a French nobleman revived the games which heralded the beginning of the Moder…
Lindsey Jacobellis: The End Of Snowboarding Innocence
Lindsey Jacobellis fall at the Torino Olympics signals the unfortunate maturation of snowboarding from rebellious and liberating adolescence to conformist and controlling adulthood.