Much like today, the ancient Olympic Games included a wide variety of track and field events. Throughout Europe, local fairs and festivals often included running, jumping and throwing events. In Ireland and Scotland, these developed into organised sets of Tailteann and Highland Games, respectively. The earliest recorded meeting dates back to in Shropshire, England, but specialised championships began to thrive in the s in the USA, UK, and throughout Europe, as well as in other developed nations.
Since , athletics has been on the programme of each edition of the Games of the Olympiad. Its presence on the Games programme has allowed its popularity to increase across the world. This popularity was also strengthened by the creation of the IAAF in Long distance events are the 5,m and 1,m, along with athletics' longest race for runners, the marathon.
Most of this Other track events are the hurdles , including the m high hurdles m for women and m hurdles, and the relay events, the most common of which are the 4 x m relay and the 4 x m relay. In the relay races, runners carry a baton and pass it to the next runner as they finish their part of the race.
Field events include jumping events and throwing events. The jumping events are the high jump , long jump , triple jump and pole-vault. The throwing events are the shot put , in which a heavy metal ball called the shot is thrown as far as possible; the hammer throw , in which a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle is thrown; the javelin , in which a spear-like object made of metal or fiberglass is thrown; and the discus , in which a heavy disc is thrown.
There are a number of athletics competitions regularly held around the world for professional athletes. This competition is attracting more and more interest among sports fans, but the high point of interest in athletics still occurs every four years when the track and field events of the Summer Olympics are held. Billions of enthusiastic viewers around the world watch TV broadcasts of these events as they follow the fortunes of their country's top athletes.
Paavo Nurmi was born in Finland in , and grew up to become one of the world's greatest middle-distance and long-distance runners. He still holds the record for having won the greatest number of Olympic track and field medals, with 12 medals in all. These include 9 gold medals which he won in the 1,m, 5,m, 10,m, cross country, cross country team and the 3,m team races. Due to this fact he is often regarded as the greatest track and field athlete of all time.
Known as the "Flying Finn", he is probably also the only athlete to have had a heavenly body named after him. Carl Lewis, regarded by many as the greatest competitor of all time in athletics, was named the world male athlete of the 20th Century by the IAAF. Outsets and onsets! B1 UK. US sports and physical activities of any type :. Woodford is the captain of the British athletics team.
There was a big controversy over the use of drugs in athletics. She is a fine runner and a well-known figure in Scottish amateur athletics. We love to watch the Olympics - especially the athletics. When did you first get interested in athletics, and why did you specialize in long jump? Br Athletics is another way of saying track and field.
Examples of athletics. The eclogues depict the shepherds' evening recreations of athletics , dancing, music, and especially verse competition. From the Cambridge English Corpus. Such a disadvantage, if it exists, would be expected to be less pronounced in swimming than in athletics.
What if musicianship is seen differently from the way our athletics analogy would suggest? Other examples of discrimination on the basis of natural attributes of persons can be cited in insurance, education, athletics , or commercial life. There are many obvious applications such as athletics coaching, monitoring patients after an operation, identifying fatigue in public service drivers and private motorists.
This leads to a consideration of screening for athletic potential and a general discussion of performance enhancing drugs in athletics. Consider as well the parent of a child who is serious about athletics. Both reviewers of this research noted that cer tain professions are simultaneously age- and gender-segregated, such as professional athletics or stock exchange work.
However, it was also assigned to individuals who had special skills, prowess in athletics , storytelling abilities, or exceptional piety. Outside the walls of this differentiated set of educational arrangements, there arose a great variety of youth clubs, social service groups, competitive athletics , social service organizations, and religious groups.
In none of these cases is there a systematic exercise of choice on the part of the empowered, let alone anything in the way of social athletics.
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