Sports and games
Sport is a very important part of our life and it is becoming more and more popular. Doing sports keeps us healthy, relaxed, maintains our figure and strengthens our patience. All doctors recommend exercising as prevention of various ailments. One of the best exercises is swimming.
People do sports either actively or passively. For many people is sport their hobby and relaxation, the others want to engage in competitions. For the topping sportsmen it is their job and in many sports events it is possible to earn a lot of money. The participation in Olympic Games is the biggest success for a sportsman.
Most of people do sports because they want to be healthy and fit, possibly because they want to lose weight. Popular are fitness centre and solarium because a lot of people want to approximate to an ideal from a commercial. I don´t go to the solarium. It is not healthy and people look earlier older than they are. I think it is better to look naturally.
Children have for sports more time than adults and do sports in their free time. They run, play football or volleyball or they play other ball games that are not difficult and that can be played in the street. The older children often choose a definite kind of sport that they like and then they regularly train. The children take part in various competitions at weekends. Very favourite games for today´s children are first of all tennis, swimming, football, volleyball and for girls gymnastic and ballet.
Many families go to the mountains in winter of late years. Nowadays a snowboard is very popular, too. Some people prefer the langlauf (the cross-country skiing), the others buy rather a ticket for a ski lift and they spend the whole day on the ski slope.
In recent years people don´t go only to the Czech mountains but also for example to the Alps.
The cycling is a very practical sport branch. We can use a bicycle instead a car since springtime by the autumn. It is much healthier and it doesn´t pollute the environment.
I ride bike often and I like it very much. I take trips in the surroundings of Třebíč.
When we don´t want to do sports alone, we can watch TV or we can sit at a stadium and watch professional achievements.
Popular are also all ball games – such as volleyball, basketball, handball and especially football. To the summer sports belong also tennis, golf, rugby, swimming and others. To the winter sports belong skiing, skating, sledging, figure skating and we mustn´t forget ice hockey.
My favourite sports are tennis, swimming, skiing, riding my bike and of course watching ice hockey.
And now I would like to tell you something about Olympic Games.
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years and comprising summer and winter games.
The Olympics took place in 776 B. C. for the first time and they were again enliven by the french historian and pedagogue Pierre de Coubertin. First modern games took place in 1896 in Athens. The main symbols of the Olympic Games are the Olympic flag with five linked rings and the Olympic fire.
The 2004 Summer Olympics, were held in Athens, Greece, in 2008 they are going to take place in China, the city of Peking, and in the year of 2012 they are going to be in London. The 2006 Winter Olympic Games were held in Torino and in 2010 they are going to be in Vancouver, Canada.