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Great Grandmother, 100, Breaks World Record in Shot Put

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:35:03 GMT

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The oldest female athlete at the World Masters Games in Sydney, Australia has broken a world record in the shot put — at the age of 100.

All eyes were on Ruth Frith, from Brisbane, as she arrived for day two of the World Masters Games, hoping to win gold in the shot put and feeling pretty confident as she was the only competitor in the over-100s category.

But her 13-foot 4.2 inch throw on Sunday didn't just win her gold, but also broke a world record.

"As long as I didn't foul I was going to win it," Frith told Reuters Television.

Click here to watch video of Frith in action.

The great grandmother is also a keen hammer and javelin thrower and believes other senior citizens should follow her example.

Frith trains five days a week, regularly lifting 77-pound weights. She doesn't drink or smoke and she doesn't eat vegetables either, claiming she hasn't liked them since she was young.

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Health Tip-Hamstring Injury

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:25:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nlm.nih.gov

A hamstring injury can sideline an athlete or exercise buff for quite a while.

While anyone can pull a hamstring, some people are at greater risk of the injury. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons offers this list:

Young athletes who are still maturing.
Many professional athletes, including runners, football players, skaters and soccer players.
People who run or sprint for exercise.
Dancers.
Seniors who play sports or who take frequent walks.

Tags: runner, exercise, walks

Baseball Camp

Wed, 06 May 2009 11:28:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Skyhawks has baseball camps for all ages, even an preparatory camp that is customized to young athletes and is intended for parents and their children ages 3 and 4 to attend together.

Clip Source: www.skyhawks.com

Baseball is known as America’s pastime. This team sport is sure to hit a home run with your young athlete. The primary focus is on teaching the fundamental skills of baseball -- fielding, catching, throwing, hitting, and base running -- while infusing each athlete with the exciting spirit of the game.

Tags: baseball camp, youth programs, baseball camps, youth baseball sports camp, baseball summer camps, summer baseball camps, baseball sports camp for kids

Five-year old youngest to have flex-foot artificial legs

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:14:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Step it up ... Ellie Challis tests out her new legs

Exclusive

Bouncing back to happiness

LITTLE battler Ellie Challis has a real spring in her step — after becoming the youngest person ever fitted with bouncy flex-foot artificial legs.

The five year old — who lost her limbs in 2005 when she almost died from meningitis — had the £10,000 carbon frames specially made.

They are the same type as the legs used by disabled athlete Oscar Pistorius and wounded Marines hero Ben McBean, with a C-shaped foot for added bounce.

And that means Ellie can now keep up with twin sister Sophie and their pals

Ellie first touched the hearts of Sun readers in 2006 when she was pictured taking her first steps on artificial limbs.

Boss Bob Watts custom-built a pair of the flex-foot legs, which had never before been given to a child so young.

And within seconds of having the limbs fitted Ellie was running around laughing.

New ‘17 Again’ Stills Give More of Zac Efron

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:56:10 GMT

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New ‘17 Again’ Stills Give More of Zac Efron

A series of “17 Again” pictures has made its way out for public viewing. Nine in total, the fresh stills take their focus of attention to its young leading man, Zac Efron, as he portrays a 37-year-old man stuck in his own 17-year-old body. While most of the photos present Efron alone, some of them show him accompanied by co-stars, Leslie Mann and Thomas Lennon.

“17 Again” revolves around Mike O’Donnell. As a 17-year-old, Mike O’Donnell seems to have it all. He is a star athlete in his high school and gets a college scholarship. Still, rather than going to the college, he chooses to marry his high school sweetheart, Scarlett. After twenty years though, Mike realizes that his life doesn’t turn out the way he imagines. He has separated from his wife, his kids ignore him, and his career is going nowhere. However, he is about to take an unimaginable twist of fate.

Soccer Youth Camp

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:02:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Children Soccer Youth Camps

Clip Source: www.skyhawks.com

All the skills and thrills of soccer are taught through fast-paced drills, skill-building exercises, and game-speed scrimmages that give every young athlete a thorough and invigorating experience of the world’s most popular sport! Coaches will focus on the essential skills of dribbling, passing, shooting, and ball control to enable young athletes to play with confidence and have fun. Every soccer program ends with a World Cup, allowing athletes to showcase their skills in a program-wide tournament. All participants receive a t-shirt, and a merit award. The participant-to-coach ratio is approximately 14:1.

The world’s game in your hometown.

Shin Guards
Navy and gray t-shirt/shorts/sweats/socks (i.e., appropriate clothing)
Lunch, Snack & Water Bottle (for programs over four hours)
Two Snacks & Water Bottle (for programs four hours or less)
Sunscreen

Soccer participants will receive:

T-shirt and a Merit Award (Summer only and does not include Tiny-Hawk Programs)

Tags: soccer camp, youth training, acton soccer summer camps, ma, tiny-hawk programs, roller hockey, lacrosse, track and field, videos, multi-sport

More Army Suicides Than Combat Deaths in Jan.

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:50:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Kind of a follow up to my Friday post.

The problem is that the Army can't afford to diagnose Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, since PTSD patients can't return to combat. So they diagnose other, less serious disorders and treat them with pills. Not only do the pills come with suicide warnings, but they're "treating" a problem these troops don't have.

So there's a double-whammy; troops with PTSD aren't being treated for PTSD, but other disorders, and the antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications are psychotropic drugs that come with risk of suicidal thoughts.

We are, quite literally, killing our troops by pretending to treat disorders they don't actually have -- while not treating the disorder they do.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

A spike in soldier suicides last month has the Army worried. A new federal report shows the number is higher than those who died in actual combat.

In January there were 24 possible Army suicides. Seven are confirmed while 14 more are under investigation.

That equals more deaths than the ones reported in combat from Iraq and Afghanistan, by all branches of the Armed Forces.

"One magnificent young man from our community that we sent away, great student, great great athlete, they have him on 18 different medications right now," said Mike Black, President of the Columbia Basin Veterans Coalition in Pasco.

Black says this spike in suicides is likely to get worse before it gets better. He also tells us combat related stress and disorders for many of these troops are carried home with them.

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Sex and the Olympic city

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:55:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well... indulging in our favorite sport is not surprising! Who dares wins?!

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Sex and the Olympic city

Tomorrow night thousands of young men and women with the most fit, toned bodies in the world will mingle for the last time before they fly home. What might they get up to?

I am often asked if the Olympic village

that hosts the world's top athletes for the duration of the Games - is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be. My answer is always the same: too right it is

my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point.

Olympic romances

Roger Federer and Miroslava Vavrinec:

Matt Emmons and Katerina (Katy) Kurkova

Derek Redmond and Sharron Davies:

Alyson Annan and Carole Thate:

The hot gold contenders

Guo Jingjing China's 26-year-old diving diva is the hottest female athlete at the Olympics. But back off, boys - her boyfriend is the Hong Kong business tycoon Kenneth Fok Kai-kong

Usain Bolt

Silver

Eamon Sullivan

Yelena Isinbayeva

Bronze

Laure Manaudou

Pete Reed

Tags: sports, olympics, sex, fraternity, atheletes, sportsmen, sportswomen

Modern Sports and Games of Ancient Greece

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:41:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mlahanas.de

Modern Sports and Games of Ancient Greece

Greece, ancient but so modern...

Stamp with the "Ball Player Relief" from the National Museum of Archeology in Athens, 500 BC, See original in the next figure

History of Soccer and Ball Games of Ancient Greeks

The ancient Greek "Maradona", playing "Episkyros" with a pala (National Museum of Archeology in Athens)

Also See ancient Chinese playing Soccer (later than the image above ???)

Young Greeks playing Field Hockey (έφηβοι κερητίζοντες) 510-500 B.C, National Museum in Athens, probably adopted from Egypt. The game is called “keretizein”. Kouros base found in the Themistoclean Wall, Athens, Greece

A diver from a tall pedestal (From the Diver Tomb in Poseidonia – Paestum)

A large crowd stood around, enjoying the dancing magic,
as in the middle two acrobats led on the dance,
springing, and whirling, and tumbling.

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Egypt around 1000 BC

Greek playing with a Yo-Yo

Young women playing ephedrismos

Ancient Greek Basketball ???

Animal fights

Keraelkeis athlete

angie darby

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:40:52 GMT

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Clip Source: au.lifestyle.yahoo.com

Angie Darby

Date of Birth: 2.05.1987

Discipline: Modern Pentathlon

Hometown: Drysdale (Regional Victoria) / Melbourne

Blog
Read Angie's March blog

Angie has only spent two and a half years competing in the Modern Pentathlon but the young athlete has a promising career. Angie won the 2007 Oceania championships in Japan in May and is one of the first Australian athletes to qualify for next year's Beijing Olympics.

Modern pentathlon is made up of five disciplines -- a 200m freestyle swim, a cross-country run, shooting, show jumping and fencing.

After a year of competition Angie had competed in the 2006 Junior World Championships in Shanghai and two senior World Cups in Cairo and Rome.

Angie is internationally the highest ranked Australian Junior and Senior athlete, with the last three Victorian state championships under her belt.

Producing such impressive results in such a short period of time, Angie is looking for Gold in Beijing.

This Olympics will be about taking part, rather than chasing medals..

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:29:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: read this and pop this..I want the entire clip marks community to visit the site and read the full story of a girl with courage, persistence and determination!!!
This kid can change lives...amazing!

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Against the Odds: Samiya Yuusf Omar

Samiya, 16, says she has been pressured to stop competing

Mohamed Olad Hassan, in Mogadishu, met a young sprinter representing conflict-wracked Somalia.

Somali athlete Samiya Yuusf Omar is just 16-years-old. She comes from a destitute family with no breadwinner.

Militiamen in this Muslim country often prevent her from training, saying women should not take part in sport.

Samiya came last in her African championships heat

"Early in the morning... sometimes I come to a roadblock set up by either government troops along with Ethiopians or armed militia, who prevent me from going to the training," she added.

When she can get through, Samiya practises on a track full of mortar craters at the Mogadishu Stadium, almost destroyed by the years of war.

Somalia has been damaged by years of civil conflict and lawlessness

When she was named as part of Somalia's Olympic team earlier this year, the honour kindled her hopes for the future.

RUNNING FOR HER LIFE: Afghan Athlete Seeks Asylum in Europe

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:51:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

Mehboba Ahdyar was to be the poster-child for the Olympics but the 19-year-old Afghan runner ran away from an Italian training camp last week. She has since told her parents she is too scared of reprisals and plans to seek asylum in Europe.

Mehboba Ahdyar was shouldering the heavy burden of overwhelming expectations. And in the end, it proved more than she could bear. The 19-year-old from Kabul was to be the only female athlete representing Afghanistan in this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing. Now the young woman has run away, leaving a training camp in Italy and telling her family she is applying for political asylum in Europe.

Tags: afghanistan, sports, female

Jeremy Wariner, American 400m Track Athlete

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:17:51 GMT

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Jeremy Wariner, American 400m Track Athlete

Jeremy Wariner, an American Track Athlete specialized in the 400 metres. Is highest achievements was two Olympic gold medals and four Word Chapionships medals. Jeremy Wariner born January 31, 1984, in Irving, Texas. Jeremy Wariner was the most young gold medalist in the Olympic games, since the 19 year old Steve Lewis won in 1988 and posted the fatest time in the world since the amazing record made by Michael Johnson.

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Atheists aren't skeptical enough and...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:20:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...the best skeptics are actually theists.

The agnostics ski down the mountain into the woods, searching for hard evidence on the basis of which to decide whether God exists—which is very odd, given that a moment ago they were standing here with us, ready to climb as declared skeptics. Agnostics, plainly, are wafflers in their skepticism: As the team gets going, they U-turn back to the foothills, where every true skeptic says there is nothing to find. They do not care about the truth.

But even more astonishing than that, the atheists have just gone home. They are not down in the valley looking for evidence; they are not looking at all. They have packed in the science without lifting a boot, as if the summit were already taken, the question answered.

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Unbelievers think that skepticism is their special virtue, the key virtue believers lack. Bolstered by bestselling authors, they see the skeptical and scientific mind as muscular thinking, which the believer has failed to develop. He could bulk up if he wished to, by thinking like a scientist, and wind up at the “agnosticism” of a Dawkins or the atheism of a Dennett—but that is just what he doesn’t want, so at every threat to his commitments he shuns science.

That story is almost exactly the opposite of the truth.

The story is right about virtue: The smoothly muscled skeptical-scientific mind is a gorgeous thing—picture the Apollo of Olympia, a poised young athlete in a throng of centaurs, passion-driven half-men. Science is a virtue: a perfection of the human creature gifted with a mind, a use of the mind that, says Aquinas, “perfects the speculative intellect for the consideration of truth.” But to be “men of truth,” in the words of Exodus, is to be vulnerable to truth.

Tags: god, christianity, atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, religion, reason, science

exercise may protect girls from future breast cancer

Thu, 22 May 2008 21:24:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years -- starting as young as age 12 -- can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown. Middle-aged women have long been advised to get active to lower their risk of breast cancer after menopause.

What's new: That starting so young pays off, too.

''This really points to the benefit of sustained physical activity from adolescence through the adult years, to get the maximum benefit,'' said Dr. Graham Colditz of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the study's lead author.

Women who were physically active as teens and young adults were 23 percent less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women who grew up sedentary, researchers report Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The biggest impact was regular exercise from ages 12 to 22.

''This is not the extreme athlete,'' Colditz cautioned.