Euroleague 2008-2009

The basketball competition at the most important clubs in Europe has begun, 24 European clubs grouped into 4 groups will be measured between them to reach the Final Four in Berlin. The league that brings the Spanish teams with five, followed by Italy with 4 and the Adriatic and Greek leagues with 3 each.

This year the competition changed format and the regular league going to have 8 teams in three groups of 6 teams divided into four groups and four for the top16 teams instead of six.

The top 16 remains as previous years, 4 teams per group will qualify for the play off the two best. The play off also unchanged and move to dispute the best of five matches instead of best of three matches.

Barcelona, Madrid, Siena, Tau Vitoria, Panathinaikos, Olympiakos, Maccabi and CSKA are the most favorite to go to Berlin, a step below to find Unicaja, DKV Joventut, Efes Pilsen and Zalguiris. The other teams will try to demonstrate that they too are deserving of at least one place in the play off.

The highest expectation at the beginning of the competition has led the Olympiacos, thanks to its star from the Atlanta Hawks, Josh Childress, also a sign of Theodoros Papaloukas of CSKA Moscow and Nicola Vujcic of Maccabi Tel-Aviv, demonstrating the economic power of that club. Other interesting signings have been a priori by Nikola Pekovic Panathinaikos cards, tipping player last year in the ranks of Partizan Belgrade, the signings of Anderson and Navarro from Memphis CSKA Moscow and Barcelona respectively, of Massey filed to Aris from Madrid, leaving Carlos Arroyo to Orlando to play with Maccabi Tel Aviv and Planica changing city of Vitoria by Moscow.

Besides those already mentioned, Josh Childress, Carlos Arroyo and Navarro have also decided to change of scenery and go to the NBA to Euroleague, the following players: Andre Barrett procendente Los Angeles Clippers at Barcelona, Casey Jacobsen of the Berlin and Primoz Membhis Brezec from Toronto to Rome. As a curies Brandom Jennings has decided to go to Rome to play instead of playing his college stage.

Football Tricks

Everyone loves Football tricks!

Ronaldinho the soccer player likely has the best soccer tricks in the game now but it is worth checking out some other soccer players as their soccer moves are also excellent. Brazil soccer fans will claim to have the most famous player in the world, Ronaldinho and there's no doubt he's a hard man to beat.

The late George Best could do anything with a ball in his prime, indeed you would regularly think that the ball was tied to his foot with a piece of string! He had pace, talent and could play with both feet.

Pele

Brazil soccer fans have another hero in Pele ! The famous Pele scored over 1000 career goals and had a selection of soccer tricks to display. At the age of seventeen he scored a wonderful goal in the 1958 world cup final when he beat two defenders and chipped the ball over their head to volley home!

Johan Cruyff

What a player the Dutch had in the majestic Johan Cruyff! He could anything with the ball and in his prime was part of the Dutch total football team who reached two consecutive world cup finals in 1974 and 1978. Known for the soccer trick called the "Cruyff" turn where he dips his shoulder and fakes a cross while back heeling the ball past the defender!

Maradona

Another genius who captained Argentina to world cup glory.

The history of Maradona is certainly complicated but he is right up there with the very best, were you know he will be able to do keepie ups with a golfing ball ? How tricky would that be? Maradona could do any soccer trick!

Soccer moves are a joy to observe and all the players above played the game with a smile on their face and that's what soccer fans will gladly pay cash to see!

The formation of force for volley ball

The formation of force dominates the bulk of the sportsmen ' form physical and programs of treatment during out of the year. These sportsmen of select carry out that the benefits of appropriate a periodized the coaching scheme of force. One expects that each sportsman excels in the explosive movements, vertical change, to strike intense power and services. The revolution of position in volley ball means the undoubted need complete players.

To be a big adjuster is gigantic more, but wealthy volley ball with some distance from the universal impressive sportsmen. The formation of force is a part solid mass with any sportsman of select.

The formation of force for volley ball needs the understanding of the periodization.

Periodization means to modify a number of variables in your coaching scheme of force on a constant and coherent basis. These variables can include the exercise, the frequency of lifting, the power of lifting, or the technique of lifting. The players of volley ball, as well as the bulk of the other sportsmen, work on an once a year program of periodization.

They downwards break their year in four segments or distinct cycles. Way of each of new segment they should change their training scheme of force into match the goals of these cycle.

The 4 segments can be split up into died season, pre-season, in-season, and after the season. Each season has single goals and a single coaching scheme of force. The objective of the off-season is to establish the power and the force. The dead season uses exercises of power and weights higher to increase the size and the force of muscle. Often the coaching scheme of force is most intense in the dead season. The sportsmen invest much time at their basic base of physical form. The pre-season focusses on real functions of detail of sport. The squatting, to leap, take a step side, to strike and nail are all of the common movements of volley ball. The routine of formation of force of volley ball of pre-season is less intense than the dead season.

The goal is to maintain these force and power, but to improve movements of detail of sport. The major part of the routine is dedicated to fake matches of volleyball and exercises. The in-season concentrates purely on maintaining with far and the goals of the pre-season. The established power out-season and the pre-season put this power to use. The sportsmen appreciate the results of their work in the in-season. The goals of post-season's are about relieving and repair . It is one moment of the year which includes coaching sessions of low power. The goal is to give the chance the body to heal thereafter exhausting months of the coaching sessions of high power. These a couple of weeks of the formation of force of rest and low power and cardio- bring the entire year of formation to a close. After the season a sports figure skilful and cured delivers to start the building out-season of force and power still. Repetition After the season Of Of Of Pre-season Of Of Out-season Of In-season. Independently of the season, some things remain consistent.

The players of volley ball must always carry out a number of exercises for each group of muscle. The formation of force supplies the edge which all of the sportsmen need to achieve success. Periodization is obligatory in all of the coaching schemes of force. Volley ball and other sports taught us the significance of an appropriate routine of physical form primarily based on particular goals.

The world of football

History of Football
To begin to tell the story of football and track the origin of this sport should be traced back to ancient civilizations and empires, which found diverse background of ball games with similar characteristics.

Thus, according to some theories, the history of football could begin in the ancient Egypt, as during the third century BC provided a ball game as part of a fertility rite, which was practiced something similar to handball.

But in China had already invented a leather ball century before, when Fu-Hi, inventor and one of the five great rulers of China from ancient times, created a massive root ball together several hard as bristles at coating that rawhide, this was born the leather ball, which was played just to pass from hand to hand.

This ball was subsequently adopted in the popular games of its neighbors India and Persia.

Moreover, in the ancient pre-Hispanic civilizations also known games more similar to what is known today as soccer.

For example, the Aztecs practiced tlachtli, a cross between tennis, soccer and basketball, which prohibited the use of hands and feet and the captain of the defeated team was slaughtered.

The history of football continue in classical Greece, where even Homer came to refer to a ball game, which was called 'esfaira' or 'esferomagia' because of the area made of ox bladder which was used in it.

From there went to the Roman Empire, they used in their game 'Harpastum' spherical element called a 'stack' or 'Pilotta' which evolved into the word 'ball' used today.

During the Middle Ages was quite famous among different cultures and gentlemen, among other stories it is said that Richard the Lionheart came to propose to the Muslim leader Saladin, who settle their differences over the ownership of Jerusalem with a match ball.

The Romans brought to Britain their ball game.

During the Middle Ages, the history of football had big ups and downs and was banned for its violent later be adapted and used as a national sport in the British Isles.

In the early nineteenth century began to practice 'dribbling-game' in public schools and then went on to major universities (Oxford, Cambridge) where he wrote the first rules (Rules of the First Cambridge appeared in 1848) and 1863 was founded the Football Association, called the emerging 'modern game' or 'Football Association' and separating the rugby game today.

The separation between the rugby and football or soccer at the University of British came to Rugby, where he began to play a sport that allowed catch the ball with their hands and run with it.

The name 'Football' derives from the word 'football', which means' foot 'and' ball ', which is also known as' football' in different Spanish-speaking regions, especially

Central America and United States. In the British zone is also known as' soccer ', which is an abbreviation of' Association 'which refers to the English Football Association said.

The use of one term or another depended on the status of social class in which they practiced, the upper classes and playing 'soccer' in private schools while the working class playing 'football' in public schools.

The football was very popular in the islands and extended thanks to the British workers who go abroad with large financial and mining companies.

Also export the name of sport, called "Fußball" in Germany, 'voetbal' in Holland, 'fotbal' in Scandinavia, 'football' in Portugal, or 'soccer' in Spain, for example. It soon emerged teams throughout Europe, Le Havre Athletic Club in France (1872) and Genoa in Italy (1893).

In Spain started to play football was in the area of the Rio Tinto mines (Huelva).

Thus was born the first Spanish team, the Huelva Recreation Club "in 1889, made up exclusively of foreign players, then founded the Palamós, the Eagles, the Athletic de Bilbao and F. C. Barcelona.

In 1902 was played the first official competition, the Copa del Rey Alfonso XIII, in which the Biscay to beat Barcelona 2-1 in the final.

Already in the twentieth century, the May 21 of 1904 establishing the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) for the first time sets global rules.

Competitions

As for the competitions worldwide, the tournament is the most important World Cup, in which national teams are concerned.

As for clubs, it may still be considered as the most important tournament Intercontinental Cup, which faces the European champion and the champion of South America.

However, the creation of the World Club Championship World Cup, the Mundialito would could be deemed as the most important, since which the best teams from each continental federation.

However, only takes a disputed issue, and the second had to be suspended, so the consolidation is far from done.

Disappeared in the 2004 Intercontinental Cup.

Top guns firing at women's volleyball World Cup

Championship silver-medallists Brazil and the other top guns coasted to straight-sets wins on Friday in the first matches of the women's World Cup, where three Olympic berths are up for grabs.

The Brazilian women, in the absence of world champions Russia, pulverised former European title-holders Poland 25-12, 25-20, 25-22 in the 12-team round robin competition.

Italy, who beat Russia in winning last month's European championships, powered past Asian bronze medallists Thailand 25-14, 25-14, 25-16.

Taismary Aguero, who won two Olympic golds with Cuba, was the heroine of Italy's 54-minute game scoring 14 points.

"For me, it's the same as when I played for Cuba. It's a great honour to play for a national team and it's a big chance for me to play for the Italian team when I was asked to play," said Aguero.

"My goal is to continue to win in the World Cup," she added.

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Volleyball World Cup Qualifiers Begin

Congo DR Fail To Arrive For Tourney

The Local Organising Committee of the 2010 Women’s World Volleyball Championship African Zone III qualifiers, has informed that Congo DR may not feature in the competition as they were yet to arrive as at Tuesday evening.

The tournament billed to hold at the Rowe Park Sports Complex between June 3 and 7, will feature Cameroun, Botswana, Nigeria, Senegal and they are all on ground for the kick-off.

The tournament will commence on Wednesday (today) as Delegates of Federation International Volleyball, FIVB are already in Nigeria to supervise the tournament.

Spokesman of Nigeria Volleyball Federation, Boye Ajayi told Complete Sports Tuesday night that no word has come from the Congolese as the Technical Committee met last night in Lagos to deliberate on how the tournament will be successful.

According to Boye, Nigeria was scheduled to meet Congo DR in the opening confrontation but with their failure to arrive, another opponent is expected for the Nigerian girls on Wednesday.

Why gym doesn’t fix it for Volley Ball

Chaoyang Park Bank Volleyball Ground & Capital Gymnasium, Beijing

According to the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), bank volleyball was aboriginal played in California as a bit of ablaze abatement during the Great Depression.

And, accepting watched my aboriginal allotment of the ball-and-bikinis bold on Thursday (a day that Manchester in February would be aghast with), I can affirm bank volleyball has mood-enhancing qualities.

But volleyball’s administration are apparently over-egging it to advance the action was built-in for any actual reason. I anticipate humans started arena bank volleyball because they could - which reminds me of that old antic about dogs and assertive locations of their anatomy.

Quite simply, bank volleyball is fantastic. It’s old-school calm volleyball I’m not so abiding about. But afore I get to that, let’s accept some background.

A New Yorker called William G. Morgan invented volleyball (although he called it “mintonette”) in 1895. A year later, another American, Alfred T. Halstead, saved the sport from ridicule by coming up with the name of volleyball. This was a huge step as there is no way the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would have agreed to beach mintonette.

The next half-century saw the sport slowly spread to most corners of the globe, and by 1947 it was time for FIVB to spring into life. World championships followed but it wasn’t until 1964 that the sport took its Olympic bow.

Recent years have seen the volleyball tweak its rules to make things a bit more exciting and the inexorable growth of its sandy offspring. The key date is July 1996, when beach volleyball packed them in at the Atlanta Games.

It was even more popular in Sydney, no doubt helped by Australia’s run to gold in the women’s event, and it was soon clear the student had outgrown the master.

In many ways, the strangest thing about beach volleyball as an Olympic sport is that the IOC agreed to it. This is an organisation, after all, that thinks dressage (Strictly Come Prancing) has a place in an international multi-sports event in the 21st century - and before you email in, I’m not knocking it for equestrian competitions, I know it is a supreme test of horsemanship.

By saying yes to beach volleyball, the IOC wasn’t just agreeing to a few tonnes of sand and a hundred extra athletes: it was giving the green light to cheerleaders, loud music and a running commentary from a bilingual Ali G. I’m not sure this is entirely what Baron de Coubertin had in mind.

But beach volleyball’s biggest weakness is also its biggest strength: the game is played by fit, young things in their swimming costumes. Actually, that’s wrong. The game is played by fit, young women in their swimming costumes. The men get to dress like Australians.

This has led to some critics suggesting the sport is more suited Club 18-30 than the Olympics, and many Islamic countries have chosen not to embrace it for precisely this reason.

That, of course, is their prerogative but for the rest of us I’ve got news - beach volleyball is no more salacious than half a dozen sports here (have you seen women’s high jump or pole vault recently?). Not only that, the sporty bikinis make complete sense for what they are doing, namely, flinging themselves around in the sand. The women, in fact, can wear less revealing, one-piece costumes if they want, but choose not to.

And what all of this completely obscures is that we are talking about highly trained, incredibly talented, full-time athletes. The feeling that you have wandered into a party at the Playboy Mansion by lucky accident doesn’t last long and you’re soon wrapped up in the ebbs and flows of a dynamic sport.

The game I watched - the women’s final - had a bit of everything as it pitted the defending champions, the US partnership of Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, against the coming force in beach volleyball, the Chinese pairing of Tian Jia and Wang Jie.

It was the first time at these Games that teams from the US and China had met in a gold-medal match, and it was played in a deluge. So we had the surreal scene of a packed Chaoyang stadium, clad entirely in pastel-coloured pac-a-macs, watching four women in bikinis attempt to recreate Santa Monica.

“Everybody in Beijing wants this ticket!” screamed the Ali G-alike in English and Mandarin, before reacting to a blocked spike with the immortal putdown, “Not in my house!”

The scoring was tight, with the American pair opting for power (particularly the long-limbed Walsh), while the Chinese duo mixed up their spikes with some angled dinks. Tian, playing in her third Olympic competition, was having a blinder, repeatedly retrieving lost causes or setting up her taller partner Wang at the net.

But it was the Americans, unbeaten for 107 matches, who came up with the big points when it mattered. And before too long they had wrapped up a 21-18 21-18 victory and a second Olympic title.

In the run-up to the final Walsh and May-Treanor hadn’t always sounded as gracious as they might but in the post-match press conference they were politeness personified. Beijing was neat, the fans were wonderful and their opponents were great and will get better. They even had a quip about the weather.

“That’s another reason we wear our swim suits,” said May-Treanor.

The Chinese started off a bit glum but cheered up as the compliments came in from the champions. They also spoke about this being a breakthrough tournament for the sport in China - their second team beat Brazil to the bronze medal - and I think they might be right. There was a full-page, colour advert featuring Tian and Wang on the back of China Daily’s main section today - I can’t remember anything similar for the country’s numerous winners in shooting or weightlifting.

I also can’t imagine anything similar for their indoor volleyball compatriots, who lost their women’s semi-final in straight sets to Brazil later on Thursday. It’s not there was any disgrace in that defeat, the South Americans are a fine team and got better as this match went on, or that the players on the squad are any less lovely than Tian and Wang. It’s the sport, that’s the problem.

Indoor volleyball is a great game to play (many are the rainy Wednesdays I remember playing volleyball, or something similar, in the school gym as a youngster) and it’s an OK game to watch. It’s just not as good as beach volleyball.

It’s almost as if the game Morgan invented was meant for the beach, not the hard floors of a gymnasium. Cricket, football and rugby on the beach are a laugh but they’re not improved as contests by the shifting surface. Volleyball is, though. Being able to dive head-long at the ball without fear is liberating.

A player as skilled as Tian is too short for indoor volleyball, with its near total focus on height, but can operate on sand. And May-Treanor was a superb indoor player before quitting the national team because it wasn’t “fun anymore”.

The pace of beach volleyball is better too, and the players don’t seem to feel the need to get together for a hug every 30 seconds, although I suppose with just two of them it would get a bit odd.

No, I’m a beach volleyball man all the way. And not for the reasons you think. That’s what the cheerleaders are for and they appear every five minutes. Even in the rain.

Nordic Combined, an interesting sport

The sport called Nordic Combined has played in Norway for many years, it comprises the ski jumping and cross-country skiing competition of two types which require physical strength and technical control resistance.

Nordic combined individual events and was introduced in 1924 in the first competition of the Winter Olympic Games held in Chamonix - Mont Blanc.

This sport consists of three events which consist of a ski jumping competition and a cross-country race. In the Individual Gundersen event of ski jumping is run from a mountain of 90 meters and cross-country stage race is a 15km. For the team event and the Spring is in a mountain of 120 meters to the ski jumping and cross-country for a distance of 7.5km, and finally for the event of a relay team 4x5km.

To better understand these three events, a brief explanation:

Individual Gundersen

In this event, each participant must jump twice since the mountain of 90 meters, each jump is scored for length and style. After the jump should make cross-country race is 15km. The order of how to initiate the second stage depends on the first, for example in the first phase will be the first out in the second. The points obtained in the ski jumping are converted into time differences for the boot order of cross-country.

Spring:

For this event, the ski jumping competition, participants will have to just jump on a mountain of 120 meters and will have to run a race on the 7.5km cross-country, and the order for the second phase also will be determined by the results of the first. The points obtained in the ski jumping are converted into time differences for the boot order of cross-country.

Team:

The event includes teams of 4 jumpers or switches, which must perform two jumps from Motan of 90 meters. The marker is the result of the team total of 8 jumps. Competitors must also compete in a relay 4x5km. The winning team is the one whose last contestant crosses the finish line.

Sport, Physical Education and Recreation in La Cultura Argentina.

It seems somewhat questionable that the sports, recreational and physical education, positive values to make people's lives. So it may be a truism to say that sport, recreation and physical education are part of inescindible culture, in this case the culture of Argentina. Indeed, one could say that these issues are almost out of discussion and even debate. It appears that beyond the exceptions to the rule, we do much sport, recreation and much much physical education, not get down to meditate much on the motivation and meaning as personalizantes activities.

The rapidly increasing emergence of knowledge technologies and information, allowing to realize that the academic and research activities on these issues is increasing in many parts of the planet, and that is perceived as emerging in Argentina beginning to appear evidence of that concern. But as you know, pay attention to the lessons that give us such disciplines as Social and Cultural Anthropology, the innovations are not accepted automatically, and massively, in the creep life or the "cultural continuun" of countries, regions or cities. If we want to approach this problem in sport, physical education and recreation in Argentina, we must be assuming certain situations. One is that we should consider the complexity of sports, recreational and physical education, as something composed at least conceptually. This is an important point, as it often detect differentiated treatment concept, which translate into distinct tasks.

Something similar seems when it comes to the point of this complex with inescindibilidad culture argentina. It seems that in some cases there is a divorce between sport, recreation and physical education, with the other cultural activities argentina. This "divorce" in the light of crisis and shortage of resources, could be classified, at least as samples of inefficiency and inequity. If this trial is a negative value, thus we can argue the need for a comprehensive approach to the dimension of sport, recreation and physical education in the Argentine cultural evolution. But to avoid confusion, we use the term approach, which involves a single treatment academic or intellectual application of the term, which could lead to understand that we postulate a homogenizing treatment, which considering the diversity characteristic of Argentina, to consider totalitarian or collectivist bias, Another aspect that we are interested to note that much more important that public policies to be applied for the promotion and encouragement of the activities mentioned above, are the specific activities of people, who are the last that will inform this aspect of culture. This assertion is an implicit relativization of public policy in making its impact on the activities that we are commenting.

From the above, we believe (rebuttable or any opinion), seems more feasible to influence the activities in question, since the specific circumstances of time and place, where we are. This means that the entities of the public good first degree, particularly our beloved sport and social clubs, and educational institutions, particularly establishments of general education and multi Basic, subsidiary and with the assistance of the municipality, can deploy a specific task that meets the needs of the largest possible number of stakeholders and beneficiaries. This implies that decentralization or devolution, the operational mode is suggested. This operational decentralization or devolution does not necessarily imply that there may be certain activities or unit design criterion. We have seen in recent years, the existence of criteria of policies for the sector or zone under consideration, too influenced by criteria wedged in previous stages. This should not surprise us, considering the sedimentation that occurs in the development of any culture. What happens is that one ingredient or practices are incorporated into the life and influence are the policy criteria, which can reveal mismatches. In other words, it is common to hear and read views on sports policy. And this is linked to the work of public authorities on the subject. But in Argentina, from December 1983, the reigning Republican and representative system, with autonomous federal (provincial), municipal and university.

This implies that the current sports policy would be the result of the work of the National government, the work of the 23 provinces and the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, the work of the approximately 1700 towns and work, specific means of some 37 national universities. No need to comment that the specific activities of the different structures of the National Executive, and at least weak evidence coordination, one can infer that when we talk about sports policy, is not actually refer to this resulting cross. Subject to imagine how complex it is to achieve some sort of coordination between institutions, even so, the action on the daily life of leisure. sports and physical education of the population, or specific cultural dimension, is relatively low. This picture, in a context of growing escaseses and shortcomings, rather than discouraged, should be given positive values InSite, a stimulating invitation to not formalizing criteria of sectoral public policies, but of philosophy and methodology in the field of sports, physical education and recreation, to inform both the public and official activities. In other words, it would be on the side of the standard criteria and not by the laws or authorities only to be a rationalization that would ultimately be directed to more people for greater amount of time, can benefit from sports, sports and physical education. I think it would make a substantive contribution to the gap since 1967 was created by the existence of separate government structures (especially at the provincial level) on one side of sports and physical education on the other. It makes us that much can be done about it, the Federal Council on Culture and Education. Linking sports club, school and town, we are going high-value, in order to optimize scarce resources. It is known to exist methodologies that show was conceived in times of abundance. Thus the expenditure transfers and stays, which benefit businesses in tourism, transport, hotels and restaurants, diverting resources that could be applied to items and sportswear.

The sporting phenomenon in late 1999, allows the sponsorship and marketing, can do both high performance sports such as professional sport. This would suggest a release of resources to be applied in a creative way on the most vulnerable sectors of the population. Those who want to play sports, do not do or can do so precariously. Consider that there are approximately eleven million people in school and through the Educational Partnership Program, may receive funding for sports, recreational and physical education. It is evident that how are you will not be shared by those who have been won by the "pre-existing status quo," but we consider satisfied if these considerations are of meditation, to see to what extent they are capable of or not in specific areas where we play. After all the "center of the world", this is where each and then with appropriate technologies, "homemade" and re-emphasize creative, you can make to the sport, recreation and physical education, fulfill the role social, which are credited to a high potential. Buenos Aires, Friday, 03 December 1999

Disabled World Cup for volleyball kicks off in Cambodia

More than 400 players and their supporters attended the opening ceremony for the games at Phnom Penh's National Olympic Stadium, considered an architectural monument to the country's pre-war past.

"This is the first event in Cambodia history that gives an opportunity for disabled players to show off their ability and talent," Deputy Prime Minister Sok An said at the opening ceremony.

The games themselves are a tribute to Cambodia's people, who have survived three decades of bloody civil war and the 1970s genocide by the Khmer Rouge, which has left the nation strewn with millions of landmines.

Cambodia's players are largely victims of landmines who compete using locally made prosthetics, rather than the high-tech artificial limbs available in richer countries.

Sheer determination has made the men's team from Cambodia number one in Asia, raising hopes that they will beat out five rival squads from Canada, Germany, India, Poland and Slovakia in the final match on December 2.

None of Cambodia's other sports teams can claim such success, and the country has not hosted an international sports event since the 1960s.

Cambodia's athletic institutions remain largely in disarray since the civil war ended in 1998, but the disabled league was established in 2002 and quickly found popularity in a country with no shortage of amputees.

"Although we are landmine victims, we have to stand up and compete," said 35-year-old volleyball player Phat Yuy, who lost his left leg while fighting the Khmer Rouge near the Thai border.

Despite feverish demining efforts that began in the early 1990s, Cambodia remains littered with millions of landmines and other unexploded munitions that continue to kill or maim an average of two people each day.

Japanese and Sport

The observation and to take part in various sports are popular activities in Japan appreciated by people of all the ages and sectors. The origin of the sports in Japan goes up with the twelfth century, when the known military nobility under the name of samouraïs presented events such as the kendo, (Japanese stick enclosing) kyudo, (shooting with the arc) and jujustu, (judo) with the populeux one. These sporting plays were established thereafter as martial arts during the time of edo (1600-1868), with the hearth on controlling the mental aspects of each activity in the hopes to raise the participant in a nobler and more transcendent level.

These sports were passed to the bottom of the generation to the generation, and always continue to open out today. The sumo, which also maintains a long history like traditional martial arts, started it there roughly has 2.000 years of a ceremonious dance employed to amuse the gods of Shinto, and is considered the national sport of Japan . Today even the event includes the ritualistic elements derived from the religion of Shinto, such as throwing salt in the air with the ground at the beginning of each match as means of the purification symbolic system. The rules of the sumo are completely fundamental. Two fighters called the face of rikishi to far in a circular ring called a dohyo, and the fighter who touches initially the floor with any part of body other than the soles of his feet, or are eliminated from the ring by its adversary loses. The combat itself usually more in seconds, but on the rare occasions can last up to one minute or longer. Six tournaments are held throughout the year, each one which lasts 15 days.

Western sports were presented thereafter at Japan with the arrival of the restoration of Meiji, including the baseball in 1872. The baseball since then transformed into one of the spectacular sports most popular of the country , with enthusiastic thousands of ventilators occupying itself of the held professional plays each season in the stages found in all the principal cities in all the country. The plays are also emission of phase to television several times per week, comprising teams of the two leagues, (the exchange and the Pacific), which make of six teams each one. The last years also a rise in the number of Japanese players saw who currently play successfully in the American principal leagues, and whose plays are covered intensively by the media in Japan. The teams of university and college are also numerous, and the whole the championship of baseball of college of Japan held each summer and televised in all the country is looked by million. Competing with the baseball as nations the popular majority of sport are the football, which made the beginning of the it in 1993 with the introduction of the J-League, a professional league of football being composed of two divisions, J1 and J2. Football had been played by amateurs during many years in Japan, but the call of the it accelerated after the national team of the football of Japan took part in the cup of the world in France for the first time in 1998.

To follow narrowly behind football for popularity to Japan east golf. The pole of saving in bubble of the 80's and the multitude which followed introduced the golf quickly into the first rank as a one of the most popular plays in the country. Appreciated in the past by only favoured a little, it developed soon in favour among the average "man of wages", which employed it as means of prolonging its network of businesses by playing a round or two Sunday with the prospective customers. Adhesions in the prestigious clubs were then in such a request that they cost anywhere 100 to 400 million Yens, and were sought then by the large companies which hoped to be established in the rows of such which were often closing more businesses on the course of golf than of the room of conference. Because of the increase in the number of players and limited space available, the prospect to play the golf for the average person in Japan is always expensive, to make the average of the prices between 20.000 Yens and rises for 18 holes, with fees of carriage and lunches usually not included. Another consideration when to appear the cost to play the golf in Japan east that "of the hole in an insurance". Those which are lucky (or rather unhappy) to descend the evasive "hole in one" celebrate the event by paying the fees of all the member of comrade that day, as well as to grant the expensive gifts on participants. Consequently the insurance was made available to buy to cover the residual expenditure for these enough skilful to make this difficult projectile.

As well as to appreciate the golf, the baseball, and football, the Japanese due to an increase in the spare time available these last years take part now more than always front in a choice of relative activities by sport including/understanding to pulsate, formation of weight, long operation moved away, Swedish gymnastics, aerobics, dancing jazz, baseball, swimming, badminton, volley ball, the cycle, tennis, table tennis, billiards, and the bearing. The large fôlatre risk like the diving of diving-suit, slipping blow, and with rising horse also gain popularity.

Know What the world highest paid athletes?

The boys of the world's best paid sport are mostly young and mostly very wealthy. They are called as the billionaires of the sport, how they are called to this select group.

Most of these revenues are produced by advertising and image rights. Proof of this is that some of them have been retired years and still remain in the list of the best paid. Names of Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan are evidence of this. The first of them removed for more than 25 years and in 2006 reported earnings per picture worth 55 million dollars.

According to the prestigious Forbes magazine says that each year brings to light the list of the best paid sportsmen in the world this year, look for the third consecutive year, leading the first place, the great tennis player Tiger Woods. That meager 31 years is the highest paid player in the world, entering between 2005 and 2006 more than 74 million Euros.

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* Michael Schumacher - 60 million Euros. / Formula one
* Phil Mickelson - 35.5 million. Golf.
* Valentino Rossi - 29.5 million. / Pilot bike.
* Kobe Bryant - 23.5 million. / Player NBA
* Ronaldinho Gaucho - 23 million. - Soccer.
* Shaquile O Neal - 22.6 million euros / Basketball.
* Carson Palmer - 21 million euros / football.
* David Beckham - 20 million euros / football.

Wimbledon Championships 2008

The 23rd of June to the 6th of July 2008 will see the return of the most prestigious tournament in Tennis; Wimbledon. The oldest tennis tournament in the world runs for two weeks every year at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, UK. The competition was first played in 1877 and was initially just for men. The competition has since developed to include ladies singles, men's doubles, ladies doubles and mixed doubles. It has also moved from its original location in Walpole London to a large venue that contains 19 courts.

All of the venues 19 courts are seeded with rye grass which provides speed and a low level of bounce. As a result the championship has long been a favourite of serve and volley players. The venue contains the two largest spectator capacity courts in England; Court Number One and Centre Court. Centre Court holds 14,000 whilst plans have been made to extend the capacity of court number one from 3,000 to 4,000 in 2009. These two courts are reserved for use for the two weeks of the tournament with the further 17 accommodating games from the general season. In 2012 the show courts are set to be used during the 2012 London Olympics.

One aspect that sets the tournament aside from the others is that there is a strict dress code employed by the club. The traditional colours of Wimbledon are dark green and mauve. Recently the clothing worn by officials, ball boys and ball girls have been designed by Ralph Lauren and are navy blue and cream. The players are required to wear white clothing during matches. In 1990 Andre Agassi used this strict dress code as an excuse not to play in the tournament.

The winner of the Gentlemen's singles title receives a cash prize of 700,000 pounds as does the Ladies singles winner. The men also receive a 18.5 inch high silver gilt cup which bears an inscription that includes the words 'single handed champion of the world'. Conversely the women's champion receives a silver plate known as the 'Venus Rosewater Dish'. The winners are typically presented with their trophy by The Duke of Kent who is the president of the All England Club.

No British player has won the competition since Virginia Wade scooped the women's singles title in 1977. The last British man to win the men's singles was Fed Perry in 1936. Recently anticipation from British fans has surrounded British contenders such as Tim Henman, Greg Rusedski and more recently Andrew Murray. Fans have named a hill on which they can watch the games after each of these British hopes to reflect their favourite at the time. Initially named 'Henman hill' it has also been titled 'Rusedski ridge' and more recently 'Murray mound'.

The Brit William Renshaw shares the honour of holding the most Wimbledon titles with the American Andre Agassi, both have won 7 titles. In the modern era Bjorn Borg and Roger Federer have both won 5 consecutive titles. Federer will be the first to hold 6 consecutive titles in the modern era if he wins this year. The Australian Todd Woodbridge has won 9 doubles titles. In the women's game Martina Navratilova has won an astonishing 9 singles titles alongside 7 doubles titles.

Hitting the Ball Back in Volleyball

Here the use of five of volley ball of ends athletes of elite when reception of service. Now you can easily carry out these qualifications of volley ball to improve your technique during plays and the tournaments of volley ball.

1. Read the position of the body of the Server

When a waiter is ready to be useful - they give you usually a certain indication where they project to be useful. Checking their lower body, their feet and particularly their position of hip you obtain some indices to know if they want to serve the court transversely or to swallow the line.

Check moreover where their shoulders are coatings and where there launching in the air of the arm is - this will give you additional indices. Alot of the waiters when they want to be used a short ball for the bruisers before line on the opposite side - MUCH OF time they as narrowly take a step to the line of portion as they can. It is a very good indication which a short service comes. Thus when you see who adjust yourselves consequently more by taking a measure close to the net that you cover all the short services which come in your sector.

2. Low stay

Once that the referee whistle blows DONT SE RAISES! The stay in the shoulders that hunched/slightly is tapi position loan in order to be useful receive. Why?

a) Since if the waiter is useful to you deep or short sound easier for you to move dispatches and backwards - if you are in position slightly tapie. b) With the stand upwards, the ball want more than probably struck you in the trunk. As the service crosses the Net remain

Low - while preparing your position and platform of body to be useful receive.

3. Maintenance

Be ready to take the responsability for the that're of balls served you or in your sector - by calling MINE in a strong clear voice thus your teammmates know that you WANT this ball and only you pass this ball. It makes it possible your teammmates to early install for no matter what they must do afterwards.

Communicate which service that you think comes. If I see that somebody toeing line by this I really mean the intensification close to the line of the server then I will say my associate of beach OR my team-members of interior in a Watch extremely of voice outside for the court are useful! This mentally helps you AND your team-members to be ready to move quickly if the short service comes. In this way everyone on the court of volley ball KNOWS and realizes probably coming of the short ball.

You've also put at the current the waiter owing to the fact that you know what they are about to make thus it puts more presssure on them at the concentrate.

4. Hearth on volley ball

Once that the you've checked the position of the body of the server and where they look at as they are useful and called him outside with your ounce of team-members... whistle the hearth of blows on the BALL while its inside the hand of launching in the air of the server .

Once that the waiter thus throws the ball they really change of can't much of anything else the WAY of I obviously which swell their hands when they come into contact with the ball through the net and I detect it right in my arms. I am to observe the ball with my eyes right in my service receive the platform. To really concentrate on the ball keeps to me to be astonishing and to move at the last minute once that the ball crosses the net at my side of the court. I am already obviously and mentally according to whether the ball out of the hands of the server thus when it obtains with the net volley ball and then crosses at my side its easy for me to move my feet and to obtain to place to make a great passage.

5. While Placing Early - Obtain Stopped!

Don't make two things immediately. Don't is busy and running at the same time! Your won't of passages usually goes to your layer BUT in the place will go immediately above the net. Obtain with the spot initially on the court where you see that the ball will cross the net and ground in your sector even if this means that you can only need side stage or two stages or can even have to run to obtain another with spot started from you obtain the first THERE OBTAIN then STOPPED - obtain your platform outside make the passage then. You ensure that you do this in 2 separate movements.

Half Volley and Court Position

Chop stroke.

In Tennis, a chop stroke is a shot where the angle towards the player and behind the racquet, made by the line of flight of the ball, and the racquet travelling down across it, is greater than 45 degrees and may be 90 degrees. The racquet face passes slightly outside the ball and down the side, chopping it, as a man chops wood. The spin and curve is from right to left. It is made with a stiff wrist.

The slice shot merely reduced the angle mentioned from 45 degrees down to a very small one. The racquet face passes either inside or outside the ball, according to direction desired, while the stroke is mainly a wrist twist or slap. This slap imparts a decided skidding break to the ball, while a chop "drags" the ball off the ground without break.

The rules of footwork for both these shots should be the same as the drive, but because both are made with a short swing and more wrist play, without the need of weight, the rules of footwork may be more safely discarded and body position not so carefully considered.

Both these shots are essentially defensive, and are labour-saving devices when your opponent is on the baseline. A chop or slice is very hard to drive, and will break up any driving game.

It is not a shot to use against a volley, as it is too slow to pass and too high to cause any worry. It should be used to drop short, soft shots at the feet of the net man as he comes in. Do not strive to pass a net man with a chop or slice, except through a big opening.

The drop-shot is a very soft, sharply-angled chop stroke, played wholly with the wrist. It should drop within 3 to 5 feet of the net to be of any use. The racquet face passes around the outside of the ball and under it with a distinct "wrist turn." Do not swing the racquet from the shoulder in making a drop shot. The drop shot has no relation to a stop-volley. The drop shot is all wrist. The stop-volley has no wrist at all.

Use all your wrist shots, chop, slice, and drop, merely as an auxilliary to your orthodox game. They are intended to upset your opponent's game through the varied spin on the ball.

The half volley.

This shot requires more perfect timing, eyesight, and racquet work than any other, since its margin of safety is smallest and its manifold chances of mishaps numberless.

It is a pick-up. The ball meets the ground and racquet face at nearly the same moment, the ball bouncing off the ground, on the strings. This shot is a stiff-wrist, short swing, like a volley with no follow through. The racquet face travels along the ground with a slight tilt over the ball and towards the net, thus holding the ball low; the shot, like all others in tennis, should travel across the racquet face, along the short strings. The racquet face should always be slightly outside the ball.

The half volley is essentially a defensive stroke, since it should only be made as a last resort, when caught out of position by your opponent's shot. It is a desperate attempt to extricate yourself from a dangerous position without retreating. never deliberately half volley.

Court position.

A tennis court is 39 feet long from baseline to net. There are only two places in a tennis court that a tennis player should be to await the ball.

1. About 3 feet behind the baseline near the middle of the court, or

2. About 6 to 8 feet back from the net and almost opposite the ball.

The first is the place for all baseline players. The second is the net position.

If you are drawn out of these positions by a shot which you must return, do not remain at the point where you struck the ball, but attain one of the two positions mentioned as rapidly as possible.

The distance from the baseline to about 10, feet from the net may be considered as "no-man's-land" or "the blank." Never linger there, since a deep shot will catch you at your feet. After making your shot from the blank, as you must often do, retreat behind the baseline to await the return, so you may again come forward to meet the ball. If you are drawn in short and cannot retreat safely, continue all the way to the net position.

Never stand and watch your shot, for to do so simply means you are out of position for your next stroke. Strive to attain a position so that you always arrive at the spot the ball is going to before it actually arrives. Do your hard running while the ball is in the air, so you will not be hurried in your stroke after it bounces.

It is in learning to do this that natural anticipation plays a big role. Some players instinctively know where the next return is going and take position accordingly, while others will never sense it. It is to the latter class that I urge court position, and recommend always coming in from behind the baseline to meet the ball, since it is much easier to run forward than back.

Should you be caught at the net, with a short shot to your opponent, do not stand still and let him pass you at will, as he can easily do. Pick out the side where you think he will hit, and jump to, it suddenly as he swings. If you guess right, you win the point. If you are wrong, you are no worse off, since he would have beaten you anyway with his shot.

Your position should always strive to be such that you can cover the greatest possible area of court without sacrificing safety, since the straight shot is the surest, most dangerous, and must be covered. It is merely a question of how much more court than that immediately in front of the ball may be guarded.

A well-grounded knowledge of court position saves many points, to say nothing of much breath expended in long runs after hopeless shots.