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1. All About Olympic Cycling - New This Year BMX 18 sets of medals will be awarded in four disciplines: Track Cycling, Road Cycling, Mountain Bike, and, new for 2008, BMX. Cycling competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics will be held from August 9 to August 23 at the Laoshan Velodrome (t...
2. All About Olympic Field Hockey While field hockey is related to its counterpart on ice, the strategies and flow of the game are very similar to soccer. Defence and positioning are the most important elements of field hockey, and the game is played on a pitch nearly the size of a s...
3. All About Olympic Handball - Have you ever watched? Handball is a team sport contested at international level. The aim of the game is to pass and bounce a ball into the opponent goal. The modern handball sport event started in the later half of the nineteenth century. However, the origin of the game c...
4. All About Olympic Boxing - The Sweet Science Boxing is a sport in which two participants of same weight fight each other with their fists. There are several rounds in a boxing match. The fighter, who scores the maximum after the completion of the rounds, is declared the winner. Victory may also...
5. All About Olympic Shooting - Ready, aim, fire While most sports rely heavily on an athlete's fitness, size and speed, shooting is primarily a contest of precision and control. Although physical conditioning helps on the shooting range, mental preparation is the most important factor for shooter...
6. All About Olympic Rowing - Stroke, Stroke, Stroke Few sports call for the combination of power and endurance like rowing. Teams and individuals alike must travel 2,000 metres - whether piloting sculls (where each rower has two hinged oars) or racing shells (one oar). The first 500m is a sprint, wit...
7. All About Olympic Equestrian - Men and Women can Compete Together Equestrian is the "expertise to drive or ride a horse". Horses have been trained and used for transport and other practical works since the historical days. They have also been used for sports for a long time. Various types of horse riding are inc...
8. Vancouver Olympic News The Games have always brought people together in peace to respect universal moral principles. The Games feature athletes from all over the world and help promote the Olympic spirit. This lens includes Olympics information from blogs, news, photos a...
9. All About Olympic Badminton - 200 Miles an hour Shuttlecocks With the high number of sudden stops and starts in badminton, players must be quick and agile, with very fast reflexes and tremendous stamina. Training typically focuses on "explosive energy," and on endurance in a player's thigh and calf muscles. B...
10. All About Olympic Modern Pentathlon- Jacks of all trades Being an Olympic-calibre sailor is a far cry from the adventures of the weekend yachtsman: it requires strength, stamina - and brains. Races can take up to two hours, so athletes also need to be able to focus, often under terrible weather conditions....
11. All About Olympic Taekwondo - Head Shots Allowed! Punches have to land between the waist and neck, but when it comes to kicking, the whole body - including the head - is fair game in taekwondo. Taekwondo requires all kinds of toughness. The sport demands power, precision, balance and discipline whi...
12. Water and Sand Tables for Summer Fun! As much as we wish to give our kids a joy of running on a beach, playing with sand and making castles or simply running in and out of water, it's not always possible - for one reason or more of them. Mostly financial side of summer vacation is that w...
13. All About Olympic Swimming Swimming features four basic disciplines - freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly - for all events in the Olympics. The freestyle races are the most popular swimming events because they showcase raw, explosive power and speed more than any...
14. All About Olympic Judo - Extreme Combat Sport Judo is a traditional Japanese wrestling sport, much of which looks like wrestling, with judoka (competitors) struggling to throw or force their opponent to the mat. Points are scored in judo by executing a good throw, or by forcing an opponent to s...
15. All About Olympic Canoe Kayak - Go Canada - Ok I am Bias :) In the canoe-kayak flatwater races paddlers race against each other in straight, marked lanes. Men compete in nine races, while women compete in three. Men's races include both the canoe and kayak, and paddlers compete in distances of either 500 met...
16. Future Olympic Cities Find out where the Olympics are going next!
17. Olympic Games | Origin, Present and Future of The Games Of The Olympiad The Olympic Games (often referred to simply as The Olympics or The Games) is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years (an Olympiad). Until 1992, t...
18. Olympics Summer Games - Beijing 2008 The 2008 Olympic Summer game will be held in Beijing China this summer. The Summer games are one of the most watched events in the World and thus year is shaping up to be no exception. The lens will keep you up to date on all things summer games as w...