From the time that I could walk I had sports on my mind, walking around with a little baseball and bat or even a football. But as I grew up I found out there are even better sports than just your basic everyday high school events. The first one I seen was snocross, racing snowmobiles at high speeds with only one thing on your mind and that is to win. Soon after though came the introduction to the X-Games and it became my childhood dream to perform there with everyone screaming my name. What I know: The X-Games are a winter and summer time sporting event that happens each and every year. They consist of pro athletes and teams pushing the limits of the human body and the machines that they are riding. The winter X-Games are held in aspen colorado and consist of three basic sporting events where athletes have different objectives. The three categories are snowboards, skis, and snowmobiles, and all have a group for men and women, though no women have competed in any snowmobile events. The summer X-Games were held in Los Angeles California up until now the 2014 summer X-Games have been move to Austin Texas. The X-Games are national hit for the television networks especially ESPN which is the main producer of both the winter and summer games. A lot like the winter X-Games the summer games has 5 basic events with different categories and objectives. The main five categories are moto x, mountain biking, rally car, skateboarding, and bmx. What I Want to Find Out: The questions that I have and want to find out is why did the X-Games come to be? I want to know this because it seems like there was a lot of thought put into creating the events. I also really want to know about the scoring in each event , and how the competitors receive their winning scores? This is because it can become very difficult to tell who is winning, I may think one is winning but when it ends that
sports I play and take it beyond that to practice it during my free time to be the best I can.
This sport has to do with geography because it is a very small section in one of the two main branches of geography. The two main branches of geography are human and physical, this would be under human. Under the human branch would be many smaller branches that go into even smaller branches. This sport would be under the culture branch of the human branch because, it is part of the Olympics, and the Olympics is a cultural event where many of the world’s countries come together and they participate in multiple events/sports with each other.
In the past the Olympic games were used as a way for the Greeks to honor their gods. Today the games are not an honoring but more of a social gathering. What’s great about the games today is that everyone has equal opportunity to compete. No matter your gender, size, ethnicity, or wealth, all you have to do is work hard and
A hobby I've held onto and cherished for a very long time was playing baseball. The sport was introduced to me by my father through the movie The Sandlot. The sport ended up holding a more significant meaning to me after I learned that both my Father and Grandfather played in their high school years. For me, Baseball laid down the foundation for my future and has been a positive force in my development since I was young.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, by reviving the ancient Olympic Games hoped that competition in sports would 'lead to a new international friendship and better cooperation amongst the nations, whilst also allowing athletes to be exposed to different values than those of their own.' It is with misfortune that the Olympic Games have taken an unexpected turn and are used time and time again as another measurement for the ultimate victory, the ultimate dominance, the ultimate triumph on the world stage.
Merriam-Webster defines a sport as “a contest or game in which people do certain physical activities according to a specific set of rules and compete against each other.” Although some argue how video games share many similarities with sports, such as the massive audiences drawn in, the potential scholarships deals, and the amount of skill needed,
Have you ever wondered what olympic ice hockey is like well ice hockey is one of the main winter olympic sports. Known for the severe injuries people still play it even if people rage about it and start fighting each other. The main goal of the game is to get the puck( a small round rubber disk) into a goal made of a net and a few metal poles. The arena is about 200 feet long and 85 wide .This sport can be played all year around, but its on ice so if you want to play it inside you will have to freeze water in a very big rink and leave on the coolers. That is how the hockey teams play in the summer(altho they don’t play much in the summer).
The idea of sport matters. From casual or competitive, to amateur or professional, the practice of sport has existed alongside the dated sociological institutions of government, medicine, family, or law. Gladiators in the Roman Empire entertained thousands in ancient stadiums like the Colosseum, while Native American created and practiced games like stickball or lacrosse across what is now the United States. Since the origin, sport has become more organized and regulated. There are now thousands of categories and subcategories of sports, ranging from physical sports like wrestling, to motorized sports like Formula One racing, to even electronic sports like the popular video game League of Legends. Sport has now merged into the world of business
"ESports" is a video game tournament that has large prizes, around $100,000 to $1,000,000. The games included go from games like Rocket League, a game where rocket cars and soccer are combined, to Counter Strike, a first-person
At the end of the ancient Games, there were around fifty events (“Ancient”). Throughout the modern Olympics various events have been added and taken away. In the aquatic category, for example, swimming races were a part of the first modern Olympic Games, but it wasn’t until 1904 that diving was added, and not until 1912 that women’s swimming and diving was also a part of the Games. In 1900, archery was introduced, but it was excluded from the 1912 Stockholm Games. In 1920, archery made its last appearance until 1972. Men’s track and field events were a part of the ancient and first modern Olympics, but women’s events were first added in 1924. Badminton joined the Olympics in 1992. Baseball was introduced in 1992, but just twenty years later in 2012, it was dropped. Men’s basketball was an exhibition event in the 1904 Olympics, but was added as an actual event in 1936. Women’s team joined men’s in 1976, and in 1992, professional players were allowed to participate (“Summer”). The first Olympic event that allowed women to participate was the 1900 Games in Paris, France. In the 1900 Games, winners were also awarded paintings as prizes in place of the medals used today
In Olympia , 776 B.C. ,the first Olympic games were held being linked closely to religious festivals. There are a variety of differences between Modern day Olympics and Ancient Olympics. During the Ancient Olympics Games , the games were held to honor Zeus , also to entertain the gods and goddesses.
Throughout human-history, sports continue to remain universal across all cultures, from 776 B.C. where the Olympics were held in Greece, to modern-day where March Madness runs rampant on college campuses in the United States. However, even after millennia, there is not a uniform definition for a sport in either the scientific or colloquial sense. Instead, there are frequent debates on what is considered a sport in bars and sociological papers. Specific to the United States, there are traditional sports that are never questioned, like basketball, football, baseball, and hockey. Other more popular activities like skateboarding are now considered a sport, but through the 1970s-1990s, it was ridiculed by those who held a traditional theory on what
Video games are a sport; they have the potential to rival if not dominate traditional sports in viewership alone on a professional level, and they challenge their players to the same extent as conventional sports. E-sports exist and are defined as such; the competitive play of video games as a commercial spectator sport. Yet despite this fact, many still foolishly believe it to be a farce, a sham, or even a mockery of so called actual sports like baseball, football, and soccer. These vacuous individuals are often, but not always, of the older generations often dismissing e-sports as the fatuous creation of the youth, but they are attached to their ancient ways of thinking, shackled by tradition. The definition of sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Although not quite as old as the great American pastime known as baseball, video games should still fall within the purview of this definition.
The first Olympic Game was on April 6, 1896; however, women competed in the Olympic games for the first time in the 1900 games in Paris, France. Roughly 997 athletes were a part of these games and only about 22 of those people were women. The 22 women participated in five different sports which were tennis, sailing, croquet,
The Olympian games were founded in 776 BC. The Greek people used athletic victory as an outlet for their aggression. In a country filled with civil war this was a way to bind the nation together.