Experience with Sports
From Chinese martial arts being practised 4,000 years ago, to amateur boxing first getting introduced into the Olympics in 1904, combat sports have been practised all around the world. In Senegal, a former wrestling known as Laam, or La Lutte, is rapidly taking over the country. What was once a leisure activity for fisherman and…
I participated in four Olympic Games. All of them as a hammer thrower. Today, I am receiving the silver medal retroactively from London’s Olympic Games because the winner, it turns out, tested positive. Whether silver or bronze, it wouldn’t have changed the course of things. I always wanted to be the best and that has…
India is the second-most populated country in the world, and behind these busy streets, there’s a new interest on the rise – professional gaming. While some gamers are gaining popularity around the world, here in India, they’re just getting started. I want to see the struggles they have here, as a gamer, in India and…
Let’s stand against the champions’ board. Four of our team’s athletes have been successfully selected for the Chinese gymnastics women’s team, participating in the 49th World Championships in Stuttgart. Liu Tingting. Li Sijia. Lin Sisi. Chen Yile. When I heard I was selected, I just thought how much I wanted to perform well in competition….
Boxers dream of becoming Olympic champion. So I’m here to tell you just how they can qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Two hundred and eighty six boxers will travel to Japan next July, 13 will be crowned Olympic champion. Eight men and five women. Tokyo 2020 will see the men competing across eight…
-I’m nervous. -Of course! -Me too! -Me too! The medal makes it scarier! “The medal makes it scarier”, he says. You even sound scared. For me, that’s the most terrifying. It’s not as bad as last time, right? I was so terrified. You haven’t been this scared for a long time? How scared? The same…
The Olympics represent the most important competition, an athlete can train for. Matthias is very intelligent and uncompromising when trying to reach his goals. He was one of the biggest athletes I’ve ever seen. On top of everything, he has diabetes! I knew it was my only chance to be an Olympic champion. We were…
Being an athlete is trying to make your body perform as well as you can. Be prepared mentally, physically, to be prepared for something what might happen what you are not expecting, to really pull the best out of you. London ’12 that was probably mostly replayed competition, especially with the medal slipping out of…
20 metres. 10 metres. Holy cow. Lord! (HITTING THE WALL) (KELSEY AND DC TRAIN FOR ROWING) So, Kelsey Lee, guess what we’re doing today. Something with boats. Good guess, actually. Today we’re going to be meeting Tom, who’s an Olympic rower. And he’s going to be putting us through our paces and showing us what…
Though breaking started in the streets of the United States, Korean B-Boys have recently been dominating the competition. With breaking coming to Korea about 15 years ago, teams here are now reaching world rank status. We’re here to see the journey that got them here, what allows them to rapidly become the best in the…
