Archive for the 'Olympic sports' Category

Memorable triple jump

Triple jump used to be an event that few non-track and field enthusiasts even noticed. At the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956 the best of the filed jumped only over 15 meters. Today even women go over 15 meters and with the men’s World Record being over 18 meters and jumpers routinely going over 17 [...]

Will Tiger Woods play golf at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games 2016?

Answer: I don’t care!! And not because of his sex life but because I think it really means squat if he were to win the Olympic games golf event that was only recently added to the list of Olympic sports at the 2016 games. With the mass media coverage of Tiger’s infidelities, the man has [...]

Which sports should be recognized as Olympic sports

At the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro there will be 28 official Olympic sports, two more than at the next games in London in 2012. The two sports that will be added will be golf and rugby. There were actually 28 sports at the Beijing games but two sports were dropped from [...]