Спорт и Олимпийские игры (english)

Sports. Sport is an important part of our life.There are many people who are fond of sport because it is the way to keep fitand healthy. It is also the way to organize people. There is the organizationof people who participate in the international sports peace actions. Thesepeople want to unite more people from different countries in sports andcultural events.Everyone knows what the Olympic Games are.In 776 B.

C. the first OG were held at the foot of Mount Olympusto honour the Greeks chief god, Zeus. The Greeks thought that physical fitnessand strength in their education of youth was very important. Therefore,contests in running, jumping, discus and javelin throwing, boxing, and horseand chariot racing were held in individual cities, and the winners competedevery four years at Mount Olympus. Winners were greatly honored by having olivewreaths placed on their heads and having

poems sung about their deeds.Originally, these were held as games offriendship, and any wars in progress were stopped to allow the games to takeplace. The Greeks attached so much importance to these games that theycalculated time in four-year cycles called Olympiads dating from 776B.C. In 394 A.D. the Games were abolished andwere not renewed until many centuries later. In 1896 the International OlympicCommittee was set up and the first modern

OG took place. Ofcourse, the competitions were held in Greece to symbolize the continuation ofthe tradition.Today most countries are represented notonly in summer competitions for men and women which include track and fieldathletics, as well as swimming, shooting, boxing etc but also in separateWinter Games including all kinds of winter sports.The International

Olympic Committee decidesupon the program of the games, the number of participants and the city-host forthe Games. The games are opened with a spectacular ceremony, in which theOlympic flame is lit by a torch carried from Athens be relays of runners.The British people have always been knownfor their love of sports. The most popular games in England are golf, cricket,football and tennis.

Every schoolboy knows the names of the best teams andtheir players. A crowd of devoted fans usually go after their favourite team toother towns to support the players at guest matches.The game particularly associated withEngland is cricket. It is England s national summer game. Nobody knows exactlyhow old the game is, but some form of cricket was being played in England inthe 13th century. Cricket is played by men and boys, women andgirls.

There are two teams of eleven each. One team must bat, and the otherteam must field. When the first team finishes batting, the second team mustbegin. The batsman must all the time guard his wicket , three pieces of woodwhich are pushed into the ground. The game is very slow. The number of people who play lawn tennisis great. The tennis championships held at Wimbledon for two weeks at the endof

June and beginning of July are the main events of the lawn tennis season inBritain and, in fact, in the world.One type of football, in which the playerscarried the oval ball in their hands, appeared in 1859 at Rugby School. That iswhy the game took the name of Rugby, or rugger . The rules of the game aredifferent from football known as soccer , and there are 15 players instead of11, in a team.Soccer matches get big crowds.

The CupFinal is one of the most important football matches of the year in England itis always played at the Wembley stadium, near London.As for me I don t like sports. I m not avery organized person and the main thing is that I don t have free tine forgoing in for sports regularly. All my physical training is morning exercises.Sometimes when our family goes to our countryhouse

I ride a bicycle there. Wehave physical training in our school. We usually run around the schoolbuilding. But I m always tired after 5 minutes running. Actually I preferswimming to all kinds of sport.Mazhorova Anastasia.