One of the most exciting and difficult sports in athletics is the long jump. The sport derives from the Ancient Olympic Games, as being the only jumping event of the Ancient Olympic’s pentathlon. As a sport the long jump (also called as broad jump) is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take-off point. Along with the triple jump, the other event that also measure jumping for distance, as a group, are referred to as the “horizontal
…Tag: Olympic Games 1896
Swimming is indissolubly related to the Summer Olympics in the contemporary form they are known on a global scale. Since the first modern Olympics in 1896, inspired by the vision of the French educator and historian Pierre de Coubertin, it is one of the most popular spectator sports, by having the second largest number of events after Athletics at the Games. The interest is reasonably justified because swimming records come one after another in each event.
Abstract
This research focuses on the swimming times of the Olympic finals, which lead to the obtainment of the gold medal for both men
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