Download or read book Bobsleigh Luge and Skeleton written by Robin Johnson and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the sledding sports at the Winter Olympics, including bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton, and includes information on how they are run and the world records for each event.
Download or read book Skeleton written by Kim Covert and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the sport of skeleton, including history, equipment, and famous skeleton athletes.
Download or read book Olympic Luge Venues written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Alpensia Sliding Centre, Canada Olympic Park bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track, Cesana Pariol, La Plagne bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track, Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track, List of Olympic venues in luge, Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck, Sapporo Teine, Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track, Sliding Center Sanki, Spiral (bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton), Utah Olympic Park Track, Villard-de-Lans, Whistler Sliding Centre. Excerpt: The Whistler Sliding Centre (French: ) is a Canadian bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track located in Whistler, British Columbia, that is 125 km (78 mi) north of Vancouver. The centre is part of the Whistler Blackcomb resort, which comprises two ski mountains separated by Fitzsimmons Creek. Located on the lowermost slope of the northern mountain (Blackcomb Mountain), Whistler Sliding Centre hosted the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton (an individual sport in which the racer slides down the track head first) competitions for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Design work started in late 2004 with construction taking place from June 2005 to December 2007. Bobsledders Pierre Lueders and Justin Kripps of Canada took the first run on the track on 19 December 2007. Certification took place in March 2008 with over 200 runs from six different start houses (the place where the sleds start their runs), and was approved both by the International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation (FIBT) and the International Luge Federation (FIL). Training runs took place in late 2008 in preparation for the World Cup events in all three sports in early 2009. World Cup competitions were held in February 2009 for bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton. The top speed for all World Cup events set by German luger Felix Loch at 153.98 km/h (95.68 mph). In late 2009, more training took...
Download or read book Sliding written by Ellen Labrecque and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, Sliding in the Global Citizens: Olympic Sports series explores the sport through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Economics. Text and photos look at the history, basic philosophies, and geography of sliding. Content includes information on multiple Olympic events in the sliding category, including luge and bobsled. As they read, students will develop questions about the text, and use evidence from a variety of sources in order to form conclusions. Data-focused backmatter is included, as well as a bibliography, glossary, and index.
Download or read book Winter Olympic Sports Bobsled and Luge written by Laura Hamilton Waxman and published by Amicus Ink. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photo-illustrated book for elementary readers about Olympic bobsled, luge, and skeleton events. Includes descriptions of each of these men's and women's sliding sports. Readers will get a primer to some rules and athletes that may participate in the 2018 PeyongChang, South Korea Winter Olympic Games. Includes Q&A feature, table of contents, glossary, further resources, and index.
Download or read book The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports written by Francesco Braghin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of winter sports in a harmonized and comprehensive way for a diverse audience of engineers, equipment and facilities designers, and materials scientists. The book examines the physics and chemistry of snow and ice with particular focus on the interaction (friction) between sports equipment and snow/ice, how it is influenced by environmental factors, such as temperature and pressure, as well as by contaminants and how it can be modified through the use of ski waxes or the microtextures of blades or ski soles. The authors also cover, in turn, the different disciplines in winter sports: skiing (both alpine and cross country), skating and jumping, bob sledding and skeleton, hockey and curling, with attention given to both equipment design and on the simulation of gesture and track optimization.
Download or read book Specific Sports Related Injuries written by Sérgio Rocha Piedade and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of specific sports-related injuries and a valuable guide for decision-making to establish the best strategies to prevent and manage such injuries. As a thorough understanding of each sports modality plays a key role, both in injury prevention and management, a dedicated chapter is devoted to each sports discipline. An international panel of authors examines all most popular individual and team sports – including athletics, swimming, combat sports, cycling, tennis, American football, baseball, basketball, soccer and volleyball, just to mention a few. Three additional chapters present special aspects related to sports injuries: mental health concerns in athletes, radiological assessment and patient reported-outcomes tailored to sports medicine. All chapters share a consistent format, starting with a brief presentation of the sport and its history, and then discussing its dynamics, physical demands on the athlete, common sports-related injuries, biomechanics of injuries, first aid on the field, and injury prevention. This book offers valuable resource to orthopaedists, sports physicians as well as physiotherapists practicing in the field of sports-related injuries.
Download or read book Alpine and Freestyle Skiing written by Kylie Burns and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the alpine skiing events in the Winter Olympics, including slalom and freestyle skiing, and describes how each event is judged and the world records and trivia in the sport.
Download or read book Headfirst written by Robie Vaughn and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HEADFIRST is the success story of how a Texas oil and gas executive took the responsibility of spearheading the campaign to reinstate the sport of skeleton into the 2002 Winter Olympics. A spirited tale of risk, leadership, and determination, HEADFIRST will enthrall sports enthusiasts and readers seeking to be inspired by one man's ambition for success.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Global Sport written by John Nauright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This ambitious new volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the development of every major sport or classification of sport, examining their history, socio-cultural significance, political economy and international reach, and suggesting directions for future research. Expert authors from around the world provide varied perspectives on the globalization of sport, highlighting diverse and often underrepresented voices. By putting sport itself in the foreground, this book represents the perfect companion to any social scientific course in sport studies, and the perfect jumping-off point for further study or research. The Routledge Handbook of Global Sport is an essential reference for students and scholars of sport history, sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport development, sport and globalization, sports geography, international sports organizations, sports cultures, the governance of sport, sport studies, sport coaching or sport management.
Download or read book Racing Sports written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Bobsleigh, Luge, Biathlon, Racing, Skeleton, Punt, Longboarding, Rocket Racing League, Kinetic sculpture race, Pinewood derby, Sandboarding, Australian International Pedal Prix, Wife carrying, Pedestrianism, Skiffing, Sledding, Soap Box Derby, Wok racing, Hydroplane, Match race, Hydroplane racing, International Luge Federation, 1908 New York to Paris Race, List of forms of racing, Freebord, Pedal Car Racing, Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing, Car Town, Street luge, Spartan race, Fleet racing, Slalom skateboarding, United Midget Racing Association, Portland Urban Iditarod, Windsor Pumpkin Regatta, Competitive barrel rolling, The Thames Barge Driving Race, Pack burro racing, Catterline Cartie Challenge, Mark Whitney Mehran, Dusi Canoe Marathon, Skiff Championships Regatta, Waiters' Race, George Schuster, T-board, Idiotarod, William Forrester, Military patrol, Pursuit racing, Trays, Radio Orienteering in a Compact Area, Time trial, Freeboard, Red Bull Trolley Grand Prix, Johan A. Manchola Prieto, Woodcar Independent Racing League, Tio Ellinas, Pushcart derby, Straight, Pace race, Bull or Buffalo racings in Kerala, Potato race, Ryepeck, Circuit Du Val Du Vienne.
Download or read book A Basic Guide to Bobsledding written by United States Olympic Committee and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an introduction to bobsledding, providing information on the sport's rules, history, techniques, strategies, and champions.
Download or read book Grand Hotels written by Elaine Denby and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings as the humble inn, the hotel has undergone enormous changes over the centuries. Elaine Denby charts the development of the Grand Hotel and how it has kept pace with technological innovations.
Download or read book The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics written by David Wallechinsky and published by Amazon Difital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us. This book was released on 2014 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in anticipation of the 2014 Sochi Games, The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics has been expanded to include the rules and scoring for all the upcoming events. The book also looks at the history of each Olympic event from inception to the present day, including discontinued events and the four skating events first featured, before the creation of the Winter Olympics, in the 1908 London Summer Olympics. From speed skating to snowboarding, bobsled to ice hockey, the book gives the medals tables, timings, distances, and scores. But much more than a statistical compendium, the book also offers an abundance of Winter Olympic history, anecdotes, and lore, as authors David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky bring alive the most dramatic moments from the Games and celebrating the many extraordinary individuals who have competed."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Concussive Brain Trauma written by Rolland S. Parker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a public health problem affecting millions of people of all ages, the second edition of Concussive Brain Trauma: Neurobehavioral Impairment and Maladaptation reflects Dr. Rolland S. Parker's more than 25 years of neuropsychological practice and research in traumatic brain injury and stress, and his prior experience as a clinical psychol
Download or read book The Fire Within written by Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 and published by Sloc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the magic and beauty of the Olympic Games.
Download or read book Snowy Sports written by Per-Henrik Gürth and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adorable cast of colorful animal characters bundles up to showcase the wonderful world of winter sports.
