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… to the five Balbir Singhs, hockey has one of the longest and most illustrious histories of any sport in the Olympic Games. Archaeologists have found 4000-year-old sketches of men playing a version of hockey in the Nile Valley of Egypt. While the…

… exercise regularly or if you are an athlete in training, you are trying to make your muscles work better. You want to be stronger if you are a weightlifter, you want to be able to throw a blistering fast ball if you are a baseball pitcher or you want…

… and some athletes will do anything to rise to the top. Every elite athlete wants to get an edge somehow over his or her opponents. Many athletes have turned to supplements to gain this edge and the use of performance enhancing drugs has increased…

… physical fitness and its five components. I will also discuss the importance of being physically fit. The five components can almost be considered as one, because if you have one you will probably have them all. Being physically fit and the five…

… and cane hockey. It is the traditional roller hockey that uses the international rules, UNLIKE the RHI (Roller Hockey International) league and the photograph shown at the top of this page. In traditional roller hockey, the sticks are much shorter,…

… and the list of unflattering traits goes on - when referring to cheerleaders, chances are you’ve probably heard them all. Just a social club of good-looking girls who wouldn’t give the average Joe the time of day, right? Wrong. Cheerleaders are athletes.…

… for an edge over the competition. With the advancements made in sports medicine, there are many options to get that “edge”. Protein supplements, creatine, androstenedione, anabolic steroids; many athletes, including myself, turn to one or more…

… muscles to move loads greater than those we normally move. Our muscles adapt to this by becoming stronger, more dense, bigger or more shapely. In addition to being the basis of body building programs, resistance training has much wider applications…

… Hunting is controversial to People, but it remains a means for people get their food. If there were no hunting then some people wouldn’t have food. Poachers have turned hunting away from its original method into a sport, and they hunt for the hides…

… that tackles the idea that sports has become simply a marketing agent and a business game rather than a sport that promotes competition, values and respect. The author argues that sport has recently been transformed to a commercial mechanism whereby…