The Yale–Harvard Boat Race or Yale–Harvard Regatta is an annual showdown between Yale University and Harvard University rowers. In this original two-mile (3 km) race, Harvard's Oneida triumphed over Yale's Shawmut by about two boat lengths, with Yale's Undine finishing third (Wikipedia). A pair of black walnut, silver inscribed trophy oars was to be the first place trophy. These 1852 trophy oars are
3. Research the Oracle at Delphi and other forms of divination in the Greek world. How did the Ancient Greeks use oracles to communicate with the gods, explain & predict events? 4. The Olympic Games integrated and celebrated Greek ideas about athletic competition, the body beautiful, and honoring the gods.
Most charioteers began as slaves. In sixth century almost 2,5000 years ago the romans built circus Maximus in the city of Rome. Basically it was a racetrack. This track was designed to race chariots. Women could attend these races.
At the high school national championships Jesse tied a world record in the 100 yard dash. He then went on to go the Ohio State University, where he began to dominate the sport. During his time at Ohio State Owens won eight individual NCAA Championships. Although he was extremely dominant at Ohio State he was still treated unfairly and experienced acts of racism. He was not allowed to eat with the team he could only attend “black only” restaurants.
Retrieved October 22, 2013, from The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/diving/9438440/London-2012-Olympics-Tom-Daley-and-Pete-Waterfield-implode-on-way-to-fourth-in-the-synchronised-10m-platform.html Moreton, C. (2012, August 4). Usain Bolt starts his London 2012 Olympics in the 100 metres heats. Retrieved October 22, 2013, from The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/athletics/9452305/Usain-Bolt-starts-his-London-2012-Olympics-in-the-100-metres-heats.html Startribune.com. 2013. USA sweeps South Korea.
Avery Brundage (/ˈeɪvri ˈbrʌndɨdʒ/; September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972. The only American to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism, and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany. Brundage was born in Detroit in 1887 to a working-class family; when he was five years old, his father moved his family to Chicago and subsequently abandoned his wife and children. Raised mostly by relatives, he attended the University of Illinois to study engineering and became a track star. In 1912, he competed in the Summer Olympics, contesting the pentathlon and decathlon, but did not win any medals; both events were won by Jim Thorpe.
Hitler and The Olympics of 1936 The Olympics of 1936, started on August 1, 1936 and ended August 16, 1936. There was a total of fifty nine nations that competed. Three thousand nine hundred and sixty three is the number of participants and three hundred and thirty one were women. Basketball, water polo, high jump, freestyle wrestling, and weightlifting was just five of one hundred and twenty nine of the events that took place(“Nazi Olympics”). Before Hitler’s dictatorship, the Olympics were set to be in Berlin, Germany.
The battle fought there two and-a-half millennia ago has sent ripples through the corridors of time to the present day. While it was not as important as the other battles of the Graeco-Persian Wars in the driving out of the Persians from Greece, its cultural influences are wide-ranging. It immortalised the 300 Spartans who died in the pass1, and since then the Spartan myth has captured the imaginations of countless individuals. The most famous last stand ever made held up the vast army of the King of Persia for several days. It could be argued that without the time this bought the rest of Greece for preparations of the eventual defeat of the Persian expedition, Greek victory could not have been achieved.
Kieran Garcia English Composition 1-Section B12 January 30 Cooper River Bridge Run Every April for the past seven years of my life I have taken part in one of the largest road races in the country, the Cooper River Bridge Run. Born in Charleston South Carolina this race is the home to roughly fifty thousand runners each year. This journey across the bridge is approximately six point three miles in length. Myself along with ten of my closest friends drop everything to make our way down to the humid, smoldering city of Charleston in an attempt conquer the challenges of the bridge that we have become so familiar with. I’ll never forget my first trip.
The United States was a dominant force in international competition for decades prior to inclusion in the Olympic Games with American teams focusing on Pan-Am Games and World Championship titles. The sport was added to the Olympic Programme in a slightly unusual fashion in 1991. The majority of IOC decisions happen on a seven-year timeline. When Atlanta was selected as the host of the Centennial Olympic Games on September 18, 1990, softball was not on the programme. A former IOC President, Juan Antonio Samaranch, pushed for softball’s addition to the program for the Atlanta Games at a 1991 IOC meeting in Birmingham, England, in a move to increase gender equity in Olympic participation.