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Olympic Games 2012: Handball
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Sports Reinhard Penzel Speed, skill and stamina are key attributes for competitors in modern ... Handball, a fast and exhilarating team sport. Handball offers plenty of physical contact and non-stop, ... sport and should draw big crowds throughout the competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games. For London ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Hockey
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Sports Reinhard Penzel At the London 2012 Olympic Games, men’s and women’s teams will be shooting ... a mastery of intricate hand-eye coordination. Played by teams of 11 on an outdoor pitch, the sport is ... a long-time Olympic favourite, offering non-stop action over 14 days of competition. The sport made a brief ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Judo
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Sports Reinhard Penzel Judo contests at the London 2012 Olympic Games will be a five-minute ... minimum effort. As a sport, rather than simply a combat form, Judo includes a code of sportsmanship, ... Kano's modern, scientific approach has made Judo into the exciting sport it is today. Now the most ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Pentathlon
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Sports Reinhard Penzel The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: ... shooting. The sport is governed by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), the International ... second type of pentathlon introduced at the 1912 Olympics was the modern pentathlon, a sport invented by ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Rowing
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Sports Reinhard Penzel The Rowing competition at the London 2012 Games will feature extraordinary ... History Rowing first originated not as a sport, but as a means of transport in the ancient cultures of ... sport in the last 200 years. Interest began to increase after Oxford and Cambridge Universities began ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Sailing
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Sports Reinhard Penzel The waters of Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour will play host to 10 ... yachting was not one of the original sports of the Olympics in Ancient Greece, it was probably there that ... sports on the Olympic programme and its Olympic history is littered with many heroes including some of ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Shooting
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Sports Reinhard Penzel During the London 2012 Games, nearly 400 competitors are shooting for gold ... practised competitively for centuries, the tense and demanding sport of Shooting is popular all over the ... obstruct wind from the eye while shooting. advertisment Shooting is a tense and testing sport that requires ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Swimming
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Sports Reinhard Penzel Hugely popular around the world as a leisure activity and a competitive ... sport, Swimming has featured at every modern Olympic Games. Other than the Marathon Swimming 10km event, ... easiest Olympic sports to understand, which may explain its popularity with spectators. Swimmers use four ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Synchronised Swimming
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Sports Reinhard Penzel Synchronised Swimming is all about grace under pressure, as athletes use ... that time, and the sport simultaneously developed within several countries, including Australia, ... Canada, France, Germany, and the USA. As well as existing as a sport, it often constituted a popular ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Table Tennis
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Sports Reinhard Penzel Power, subtlety and lightning-fast reflexes will all be on display at ExCel ... during the Table Tennis competition. The sport has come a long way from its origins in the late 19th ... the biggest participation sport in the world. To anyone who witnessed China’s clean sweep of all four ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Taekwondo
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Sports Reinhard Penzel Expect plenty of excitement at ExCeL when the Taekwondo competitors take to ... by Taekwondo today. advertisment Taekwondo made its debut as a demonstration sport at the Seoul 1988 ... counter-attacking kicks or punches which require fighters to posses good anticipation. It is a sport about speed- of ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Tennis
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Sports Reinhard Penzel Just three weeks after the end of the annual grand slam tournament, ... Germany) winning gold in the two Singles tournaments at Seoul 1988. Since then the sport has been a target ... 1908, with Great Britain winning all six gold medals. The Basics Tennis is a fast and dynamic sport ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Triathlon
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Sports Reinhard Penzel A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three ... continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most ... provide a social headquarters prior to the race. The nature of the sport focuses primarily on persistent ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Volleyball
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Sports Reinhard Penzel Volleyball made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 1964 Games for both men and ... basketball for older members of his YMCA gym. A century later, Volleyball is anything but gentle – few sports ... grown into a fast-paced, hard-fought sport that spans the globe. Its 220 affiliated national federations ... View
Olympic Games 2012: Water Polo
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Sports Reinhard Penzel Water Polo developed during the 19th century as an aquatic version of ... Handball: a fast, tough and demanding sport, it has featured on every Olympic programme since the Paris 1900 ... built for an Olympic Games. History A tough, physical sport, water polo had a reputation for extreme ... View