Comparison Of Usain Bolt And Hicham

Every elite athlete makes it look easy. Splashing through the water or striding gracefully down the track making it look effortless. Some people assume they are “naturals,” that their perfect DNA sequence is what has brought them to this level. Others argue that hard work and drive is what has made the difference, separating the elite from the average. These thoughts are the ones that give rise to the age-old nature vs. nurture debate. Countless hours of studies and research has concluded: it’s both. High performance sports consultant Ross Tucker puts it this way, “The science of success is about the coming together of dozens, perhaps hundreds of factors” (1). The relationship of such factors, including genetics, types and lengths of

Naim Suleymanoglu, also known as "Pocket Hercules," is another athlete who used the Olympic games to represent oppression among his countrymen. Naim grew up as part of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria, where he trained to be the most dominant weightlifter in his weight class for many years. He would have been a sure gold

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On Tuesday, July 27 1993 in Salamanca Spain, the world of Track and Field was revolutionized in less than 20 seconds. Not in a 200 meter sprint, but because of a 2.45 meter unassisted vertical jump. Javier Sotomayor is the only person in the world to have ever cleared 8 feet with a jump of 8’0.5” breaking the 2.44m record he had set the previous year. Javier Sotomayor is iconic in the High Jump as a result of his record which has not been surpassed in its 22 years and only recently has been challenged.

It is assumed that the ancestors of mankind developed the ability to run for long distances about 2.6 million years ago. Since then, running has developed into one of the world’s most competitive sports.

While Bannister and Prefontaine set the standards for the short and medium distance runners, a new group of long distance runners was beginning to emerge, along with a new running culture. In the early and mid-1970’s, long distance American runners Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers, joined forces with short and medium distance runners (Bannister and Prefontaine) to kick-start the running boom of running in America. It’s said that over 25 million people were active runners during this time.

The first person on the list is Jim Thorpe. He was born in 1888 and in Prague Indian Territory which is actually known as Oklahoma. He was known for

"The highest measured speed ever obtained by any individual since records began is 100m in 9.59 seconds-the current holder of 'worlds

My favorite athlete is Trevor Brazil, for many of you who don’t know him, he is a professional athlete in the sport of rodeo. Trevor is an optimum cowboy competing in professional rodeo, leaving very few records in the sport unbroken. Often referred to as the “Michael Jordan of rodeo” , due to his great accomplishment.

But, one key difference between them is that no matter what sport you play, at

During the 1960 Olympic Games, Wilma beat several of her running records. In the 100m dash, she beat her record of 11.3 seconds and finished with 11.0 seconds which lead her to get her first gold medal. In the 200m dash she beat the world record and got 23.2 seconds but at the finals, she ended up getting the time of 24.0 seconds and got another gold medal for that. She was also in the 4*4 relay and her individual time was 44.4 seconds and she also got another gold medal for that relay. (“Wilma Rudolph

Another event for the Australians on the fourth day of the Games was the 200 m freestyle. Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband had broken the world record in the semi-finals, taking it from the new Australian hero Ian Thorpe, who came close to the world record in his semi-final heat. As the final race finished, Van den Hoogenband's time was exactly the same as in the semi-finals, finishing ahead of Thorpe by half a second.

These sports may seem like polar opposites but the similarities between the two are endless. The similarities include the individual battle to the team aspect of the sport. The event of throwing in track is very individualized since its only you that steps into the ring.

     Another Track and Field event is the long jump. This event differed very greatly from the jumping we see today. The jumpers would have a running start and be holding weights in their hands for momentum purposes. The use of the weights, which were swung about during the run and jump, caused the jumper to have a much larger distance than the athletes of the modern Olympics. In fact, the ancient jumping events are highly controversial because of the ludicrous records found about the distance of the jumps in ancient Greece. One record states that a contestant jumped 55 feet. The modern record for the running long jump is near 30 feet and it seems to many track and field experts that it would be quite impossible for anyone to jump 55 feet, even with the help of an impetus. Some

Although Amir and Hassan are raised in the same household, they live in different worlds. Elaborate on this statement, living example from the text.