How To Find Your Pace While Running
Track and field sports are events that bring to the fore the prowess of man. Through out history Kings and rulers have held contests to commemorate an event or simply for fun and recreation. This is the origin of the track and field sports that normally include races and feats of strength like the Javelin throw and the discus throw.
John Charles Akii-Bua: Africa’s Olympic Golden Hurdler
After the 1972 Olympic gold medal win, after four decades, John Akii-Bua is still the only African short distance and also hurdles Olympic gold medalist. He would not participate in the 1976 Olympics that were held in Montreal because of the political boycott by Uganda and many other African countries.
How To Improve Your Sprinting
For many athletes, sprinting is an important part of performance. And the good news is that even if you don’t have a ton of natural speed, you can make some improvements in your sprinting technique that will help you become faster.
The Prithviraj Stadium Ajmer
This talk is about one of the largest stadiums in Rajasthan in India. The Prithviraj Stadium aka Khel Gaon in Ajmer has been truly a destination for all the sportsmen of Ajmer and Rajasthan.
The Touchdown and Take-Off for Long Jump [Part 1]
A long jumper has attained his/her optimal speed on the runway and is preparing to touchdown and take-off. This speed must not be wasted… the horizontal impulse must be transferred into a dynamic vertical impulse in a very short time span. This is a learned skill and coaches should spend considerable time on this aspect of the jump.
Vertical Jump – How to Increase Your Leaping Ability
In almost all sports, it is important to have a high vertical jump. Whether you’re trying to dunk a basketball, become a better volleyball player, or really play any sport, you need to be able to jump higher. There is a way to increase you’re vertical jump through simple training.
Yelena Isinbayeva – Her Professional Pole Vaulting Mini-Biography
A mini-biography of Yelena Isinbayeva; a women pole vaulter. Learn about one of the sport’s greatest women pole vaulters in this mini-biography.
Coaching Track and Field
Coaching isn’t just blowing a whistle and demanding respect, you have to know your athletes in order to potentially bring out their best performance. You should be able to suggest the best sports equipment for their training. Some people are short distant runners because they have a quick burst of speed that helps them get a head of the other runners. Some athletes can endure longer races and they excel when given a few hundred yards to get their speed up to a competitive level.
Asafa Powell Needs To Take His Head Out of the Sand
In 2009, the United States challenged Jamaica to a Dual-Meet Series where the two sprinting powerhouses could face off against one another in team competition. Jamaica accepted the challenge a few weeks later. Former world-record holder Asafa Powell was not very impressed with the arrangement, however.
Abraham Kwadu Munabi: Uganda’s Greatest Triple Jumper
During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s an excellent student at the prestigious rigorous Medical School at renowned Makerere University in Kampala established himself as one of the top African and Commonwealth of Nations’ triple jumpers. Abraham Kwadu Munabi, born on 19th December 1940, was like Uganda 1960’s champion sprinter Amos Omolo apparently a late-age entrant to significant sports competition. Munabi was the biggest name and medal hope in Uganda field athletics during the time. The national record that Munabi established in the triple jump, still stands four decades later.
Usain Bolt – The World’s Fastest Man
Usain St. Leo Bolt or simply Usain Bolt, is Jamaican sprinter who won three gold Olympic. He is the world record holder for the 100 meters, 200 meters, and 4×100 meters relay, making him the first person who won in all three events in one Olympic competition, during the Beijing Olympics in 2008; he also broke the record set in 1984 by Carl Lewis.
Why Did Michael Johnson Lose a Gold Medal?
Michael Johnson is a former world record holder in the 200 meter and the 400 meter sprints, and until recently he had 5 Olympic Gold medals. Now, however, he only has 4 Olympic Gold Medals. How did he lose a medal? Was it because he was caught cheating? Was he found to have cut a corner, or did he take performance enhancing drugs? No, of course not, Michael Johnson has always been a stand up guy.