Also, he introduced cheerleading training camps in Texas that same year. When we fast forward about 20 years the cheerleading routine was born. Which means cheerleaders started to incorporate music with their routines instead of just cheers, chants, and
Greco-Roman Wrestling vs. Freestyle Wrestling Diane E George COMM/155 January 15, 2012 Greco-Roman Wrestling vs. Freestyle Wrestling Olympic wrestlers must choose their style to become a champion. If a wrestler wants to wrestle in the Olympics, he would have to pick one of the two styles; Greco-Roman or Freestyle. Even though Greco-Roman has been around longer, Freestyle is the choice of many Americans. Greco-Roman was the only style offered to wrestlers as far back as 776 B.C., the first recorded Olympics in Olympia, Greece. Greco-Roman wrestling is the most popular style in Europe today.
I will explain why it needs to become officially part of it formal games. Wushu Tournament Beijing (Olympic debut) 2008 Kicked off at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, just south of the birds nest, the main Olympic stadium. Right before the actual Formal games started. It was Approved by the international Olympic Committee, but is not a formal part of its summer games, this four day tournament
Reason to Listen: CrossFit was born in 2000 from the mind of a young gymnast named Greg Glassman. He discovered that by using a combination of weightlifting, conditioning, and gymnastics he could become a fitter individual. After years of training in his garage, he established the first CrossFit gym in Santa Cruz, California. Here he began to train police, military and civilians alike all using CrossFit. From the first gym in Santa Cruz, CrossFit has exploded into over 5,000 CrossFit gyms across the globe.
The First U.S. Woman’s Gymnastics Olympic Gold Medal Have you ever heard about Kerri Strug? If you haven’t than you are missing out. If you have heard about her then you probly know what an amazing person she is, or wait a minuet do you even know what she did to be so great? Kerri Strug was on the 1992 and the 1996 Olympic Gymnastics teams. Kerri helped lead the 1996 Olympic gymnastics team to get the gold medal, and may I add it was the first time for the U.S. Woman Olympic Gymnastics to ever win the gold medal.
They also have tiaras. The costumes for men are much less embellished. There are two types of shoes: gillies, which are soft shoes similar to ballet flats, and hornpipe/hard shoes. The feis is a competition in which dancers dance different dances at various levels, and win prizes, and, depending on what they get, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., they might move up a level. The highest you can get is winning the Worlds Championships, held in Dublin at Easter, where dancers from all over the world compete for the world title.
CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS The idea of Beauty Pageants started back in 1921 when the owner of an Atlantic City hotel thought of the idea in order to promote tourism. The winner of these contests would gain the title of Miss America, this has been a yearly event ever since. Then when the 1960’s came about pageants were becoming so popular that a ‘Little Miss America’ was started, originally open to 13 – 17 year olds but by the time 1964 came around there were over 35,000 participants which prompted an age division. Now a days children as young as two and three also participate. Beauty pageants as we know them today arisen in the late 1960’s in Miami, Florida.
Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. While people have been ice skating for centuries, figure skating in its current form originated in the mid-19th century. The International Skating Union (ISU) regulates international figure skating judging and competitions. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level (senior), and at local, national, and international competitions. The toe loop jump is a toe jump that takes off from the back outside edge and lands on the same back outside edge This is the first full rotation jump a skater learn.
The opening ceremony is an Olympic tradition, of which has been upheld for 114 years. In honor of the original games held in ancient Greece, the Olympic athletes of Greece march into the stadium first. The athletes of the other countries then follow in alphabetical order by country, according to the spelling in the language of the host country. The athletes of the host country enter last. For the first time ever in the Summer of 1956 Olympics, during the Closing Ceremony athletes from all nations entered the stadium in unity, rather than marching in one nation at a time.
Here the Greeks erected statues and built temples in a grove dedicated to Zeus, supreme among the gods. The victors of these early games were crowned with wreaths from a sacred olive tree that grew behind the temple of Zeus. According to tradition, this tree was planted by Hercules, founder of the games. The winners marched around the grove to the accompaniment of a flute while admirers chanted songs written by a prominent poet (Jennifer Rosenberg, 2005) The modern Olympic Games are named for athletic contests held in ancient Greece for almost twelve centuries. They were banned in 394 AD but were revived and made international in 1896.