Squash is the only “Single player’s Sports” in which Pakistan has made its presence recognized at the international level. Squash has made the country famous. For the better part of five decades, Pakistan has completely dominated squash like no other place in the world. Between 1950 and 1997, Pakistan managed to win more than 30 British Open titles, 14 World Open titles, and many PSA professional titles. During the supremacy of Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan in the 80s and 90s, squash in Pakistan reached incredible heights of success, although they were hardly the first players to excel in the game.
Hashim Khan, a former squash coach in the British Army, was the first Pakistani to dominate the sport.When Pakistan gained independence, Hashim
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Since 1998, however, after Jansher’s defeat in the British Open final, the game of Squash in Pakistan has fallen from its dizzying heights. Although Pakistanis still make up a considerable percentage of players in both men’s and women’s games, but none of the Pakistani has qualified for the final of either the British or World opendespite of the fact that Pakistan has a number of coaching/training centers in major cities of the country. Pakistan has never won any athletic medal in Olympics. Her athletes do not get chance to participate in World Athletic Cup competition due to poor standard.
But Pakistan has been a force to be reckoned with in the Asian Games, the SAF Games and the Commonwealth Games. Many Pakistani athletes won medals and even held records for many years in these prestigious competitions. The fifties were the golden time of the Pakistani athletics when Pakistan produced a number of very good athletes, who ruled the Asian athletic scene for many years. Some of them created the Asian Games records. These records were broken after a lot of struggle by the other Asian athletes. The one time 'Fastest man of Asia' Abdul Khaliq was a
In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete”, Jessica Statsky talks about the different kinds of students and their approach and mental and physical ability and pressure towards Sports. Statsky differentiates between two sets of children who have physical and mental attributes and towards sports. She gives a few examples and changes that have taken place in the past decades in the sports scenario. When overzealous parents and coaches impose adult standards on children's sports, the result can be activities that are neither satisfying nor beneficial to children. She further states that children should not be pressurized or forced upon their performance and improvement rather they should first be given a chance to understand the sport, their potential and the way in which they develop
Contests in skill, strength and speed have occupied an important place in every culture throughout the ages. The meaning of the term sport and the effect that sport has on society is always changing. Sports have especially changed in the last two decades and can certainly be evidence by the growing number of labor disputes and court cases involving all sports.
In the article, Children Need to Play, Not Compete, the author Jessica Statsky asserts that highly organized competitive sports like Little League Baseball and Peewee Football, which are played to professional standard, are not appropriate for children. The author argues that competitive sports for children aged between six and thirteen, has negative effects in developing sports talent for the future and affects the children physically, mentally and morally. She explains how certain physical actions affect the child’s anatomy by citing Leonard Koppett’s claim that a twelve year old trying to throw a curve ball might put lot of strains on his muscles which could turn into a lifelong injury. She further insists that children playing competitive
Scholars have identified six separate components that must be present within a sport in order to be considered as a true sport. One of the first requirements on this list is that the sport must include a
Sporting events have always been an important fixture of society. In fact, sports are more like an extension of the reality in which we live. Referring to the modern Olympic games, Avery Brundage stated, “Sport, like music and other fine arts, transcends politics… We are concerned with sports, not business and politics.” Each historical time period is marked by cultural norms and these norms translate onto sports.
The end of World War II, Australia had started to change such as the technology and many more. Sport was one the many big changes in Australia after the WWII, sport have been a part of Australian culture since the first fleet. From around the 1945’s till present Australia has achieved many achievements and had thrived on all types of sporting activities. The history of the Australian Sport is a journey covering more than one hundred and twenty years of sport. Sport is a very important part of Australia. Early sports that were played in Australia were cricket, Rugby League, Football, AUS rules football, Rugby, horse racing and netball. Sport evolved with Australian identity through events like Phar Lap. Sport came to Australia in the 1810’s
Modern day Pakistan’s land has traditionally been Muslim for many years. In the early nineteenth century it was ruled by Britain and considered part of the British Indian Empire. In 1947, a partition was granted from the British, and Pakistan and India were created as their own countries. As the previous British Empire divided,
In early 1960’s Ali seemed to be on top of the world he was an Olympic Gold Medalist at age of 18 and
Summary Jessica stasky shared her thoughts and views about children playing adult competitive games in “Children Need to Play, Not Compete.”. According to her it’s a new trend of parents involving their children in games which are not meant for them and which only cause harm to their physical and mental development. She said that such games have only one aim and that is victory other things like sportsmanship, discipline and teamwork is nothing. As a result of this aim, children only get stress and more stress whereas in the process of gaining this aim they often get injured which make the disheartened towards sports. Statsky criticize the process of selection and the trainers who are responsible for making games more like a competition for children which they have to win and this winning pressure make them to choose the one who have some skills and talent whereas the one who have potential of taking a
Mountbatten traveled to Karachi to exchange energy to the recently made condition of Pakistan on fourteenth August 1947. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was confirmed as the first Governor General of Pakistan. Liaquat Ali Khan assumed control as the first Prime Minister. Domain of the condition of Pakistan was partitioned into two sections. These two sections known as East Pakistan and West Pakistan, were isolated from one another
Did you know that field hockey originated from the ‘Arabs, Greeks, Persians, and Romans? They each had their own versions, and thier are traces of a stick game that has been played by the Aztec Indians of South America.’ (britannica.com). ⅡAbout field hockey and the differences While researching on field hockey I could tell that some rules were unique in your own way.
Ladies' games are generally overlooked by the standard games media. The media channels the data and experience that the group of onlookers see. At the point when out comes to sports the media concentrates on three things which are: Information, excitement and translation. In nations like Canada media frequently presents to us certain determination of games that they feel is fascinating to us keeping in mind the end goal to make benefit. scope in the media regularly inclines toward men over
Through the movies viewed in this course this semester, we saw women who were able to play against men and still keep their femininity. Nothing is lost when playing sports not traditionally meant for a particular race or gender. Society must become more understanding when it comes to the sports different types of people play and hinder from stereotyping anyone when they participate and perform well in that sport.
Events of the 1990’s greatly influenced the sports. Some of the events going on in the 1990’s was the Post Cold War,Gulf War and Race and Gender Conflicts. In the post cold war the Soviet Union collapsed two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the United States was left as the world’s reigning superpower. “As the nineties progressed, U.S. foreign policy became driven by the desire to support economic and political reforms in formerly Communist countries”. (Kallen, Stuart A.
Sports have been around for centuries, dating back to 776 BC with the first Olympic Games. Ancient civilizations like the Egyptian, Greeks and Mayans all had a sport they enjoyed taking part in. They were created to bring people together and help them settle disputes or conflicts in an organized manner. Great leaders of the ancient world saw a fascination in sports and made it part of their reign to promote the human’s natural competitiveness. Since then, new sports have emerged and also new reasons for one to play. New sports evolve every day all over the world. Everywhere in social media and magazines you will find images of famous athletes and their achievements. Not much history has been left behind by these famous civilizations except for some cave paintings and stories passed down through generations. However, these sports have helped new ones all over the world flourish and the competitive aspect has been kept intact with some modifications to minimize some of its historical brutality.