Let's speak about some typically summer sports, although some of them can be also practised indoors in winter.
Light athletics is called the queen of sports and includes many disciplines. These are for example runs (marathon, relay race, hurdle race), jumps (long jump, high jump, triple jump, pole vault) and throws (discus, javelin throwing, shot put, hammer throw). Athletes can also compete in decathlon, which includes ten athletic disciplines. If you like jogging, it is in fact running for fun.
Some people enjoy water sports. They like swimming in the swimming pool, in the lake or in the sea. We recognize several swimming styles - breaststroke, backstroke, crawl or butterfly stroke.
If you are more adventurous, you can try diving, surfing, windsurfing, water skiing, rafting or yachting. There are competitions in rowing or canoeing. Many young people like going down the river, sleeping under the tent and exploring the countryside around the river.
Collective sports such as football, tennis, volleyball or football-tennis are traditional summer sports. We have our national football league and many people like to watch the football matches of their favourite teams. In football there are ten players and one goalkeeper in each team. A coach is very important in collective sports because he makes important decisions - about tactics, who will play on which position and he also guides the training. Some sportsmen have their own trainer (e.g. in tennis).
In winter we can do skiing, skating, sledging or we can play ice-hockey. Skiing is represented by down-hill skiing (downhill race, slalom), cross-country skiing and ski jumping. Snowboarding is also a very popular winter sport. Skating includes figure skating or speed skating.
Ice-hockey is a very fast sport. Hockey players move on the ice-rink and they play with hockey sticks and a puck.
Typical indoor sport is gymnastics. It is practised in a gymnasium on various gymnastics apparatuses, such as a horizontal bar, parallel bars or a balance beam. In the gym you can also practise weightlifting and bodybuilding or some martial arts - for example boxing, fencing, judo, karate, wrestling and so on.
There are many outdoor sport activities. We can mention cycling, car racing, horse racing or some dangerous sports, for example rock climbing, bungee-jumping and parachuting.
The most popular sports in Britain are football, athletics, horse races, cricket or rugby.
There is a famous tennis tournament played in Wimbledon. In Great Britain we can find many golf fields. In this game competitors hit the ball with a club so that it would fall into a hole.
For American people are the most attractive sports baseball, basketball or ice-hockey. There is National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Hockey League (NHL). In the game of baseball one player wears a leather glove and a face mask and the other holds a bat in his hands. The others are ready to run. In basketball there are five players in each team and they try to put the ball into the basket which is installed on a backboard.
There are also some problems in the world of sport. For example aggressive fans at the stadiums, bad injuries or deaths during competitions, some sportsmen take drugs to be stronger or to win the race. You can earn a lot of money if you are a good professional sportsman so taking drugs is a great temptation.
The biggest sport event are the Olympic games which are held every four years in winter and in summer. The Games were named after Olympia in Greece, where they were held in the ancient times. The first modern Olympic games were symbolically organized in Athens in 1896. The Olympic flag has five interlaced circles of different colours - it is a symbol of the friendship of all the races from five continents.
strenghten posílit puck puk
athletics; athlete atletika; atlet gymnasium tìlocvièna
include zahrnovat horizontal bar hrazda
relay race štafeta parallel bars bradla
hurdle race bìh pøes pøekážky balance beam kladina
pole vault skok o tyèi weightlifting vzpírání
javelin throwing hod oštìpem bodybuilding posilování
shot put vrh koulí martial arts bojová umìní
compete, competition soutìžit; soutìž fencing šerm
recognize rozeznat, rozlišovat wrestling zápas
diving potápìní mention zmínit
rowing veslování horse racing dostihy
tent stan rock climbing horolezectví
explore prozkoumávat club golfová hùl
football-tennis nohejbal hole díra, jamka
match zápas leather glove kožená rukavice
goalkeeper brankáø hold, held, held držet; konat se
coach trenér mužstva bat baseballová pálka
trainer trenér fan fanoušek
sledging sáòkování stadium stadion
down-hill skiing sjezdové lyžování injury zranìní
cross-country skiing bìžkové lyžování temptation pokušení
figure skating krasobruslení event událost
speed skating rychlobruslení flag vlajka
ice-rink kluzištì interlaced propojený
hockey stick hokejka
Which sports do you like to practise? What new sport would you like to learn?
Do you watch sports on TV or do you go to the stadium to watch sport events?
Are you a fan of any sport club or a team? Who is your sport hero – why do you admire him?
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