Greatest sports traditions

Hairy situation 

 

The dominant New York Islanders teams of the 1980s started the tradition of not shaving throughout the duration of the team’s postseason run. The practice is now copied by hockey teams at almost every level of the sport and even by athletes in other sports. The tradition isn’t for everyone though. In 2003, Adam Oates refused to join his Stanley Cup runner-up Anaheim Mighty Ducks in growing a playoff beard, noting that the supposed superstition works only for one of the 16 teams that make the postseason each year.

The worst examples of arrogance in sport

Who da man?

Hours after England's cricketers completed the tonking of Australia in the recent Ashes series, an article dating from last November - just before the first test - started doing the email rounds.
The piece, from the Australian Daily Telegraph, was called 10 reasons the Poms are duds, and listed the fatal deficiencies of the England team, from being perennial chokers to the lack of a 'fear factor' in bowlers like Jimmy Anderson (who went on to become the star bowling performer of the series). In short, Australia had nothing to fear - as usual - from an English team down under.
Given what subsequently occurred, the article can either be put down to appalling punditry or breathtaking Aussie arrogance. But then, arrogance is hardly unknown in the winner-takes-all world of professional sport, whether among athletes, teams, fans or journalists.
Here are a few other prime examples.

Football Training of Roosters

China’ may not have been present at the World Cup 2010, in South Africa, but its team of football playing roosters would probably win any competition.

Zhang Lijun has always been a big fan of football, but he decided to take his passion for the sport to a whole new level three years, when he started training his roosters to handle a ball. Now, chickens aren’t exactly famous for their intelligence and ability to learn new things, but Zhang’s roosters have developed mad football skills.

The unusual football team is made up of only two players, and they recently had to go head to head in a mock World Cup match, on the city streets, in Liaoling Province China. Zhang Lijun played the role of the referee, while the two roosters used their feet and wings to handle the ball. Passers-by gathered to watch the bizarre spectacle and were surprised by the bird’s dribbling skills.

Maybe Zhang’s roosters should play in the national football team, or may be he could be the new coach. Either way, China would have a higher chance of qualifying next time.

 That’s right, Super Street Fighter IV will hit the arcade scene on December 16, 2010 in Japan. Not sure when the U.S. will get the game, but the Japanese will get two new character additions, Yun and Yang from Street Fighter III. What does this mean for those of us who bought the console game? Will we be getting a DLC soon?

Check out some screenshots of Yun and Yang as Chinese cooks, something I don’t see often, living in Los Angeles/Orange County.

Circus In The Sky

A group of skydiving daredevils performed some out-of-this-world manoeuvres when they jumped from a plane over New Zealand attached to unusual contraptions.

Nitro Circus stars Joelene Van Vugt of Canada, Erik Roner of the USA and eight friends executed the risky moves over Matamata to launch their extreme sport's impending '2011 Nitro Circus Live New Zealand Tour.'

The jump coincided with tickets going on sale for the February tour.

Another man performed some extreme skydiving manoeuvres with a wheelchair

Photos in the style of Max Payne ... Photographer Steven Meisel

Lindsay Haward, the Amazon Wrestler

Lindsay Hayward is a 23-year-old woman born in Walnut Creek, CA who is now known as a professional wrestler in the U.S.

Her story began early in the childhood when, because of the abnormal height ( 6ft 9ins at the age of 13 ) and the wickedness of others , Lindsay began to drink on her own, only making it worse. At the age of 16, during a fight with another girl, Lindsay lifted her off the ground and then threw her into a brick wall. Not long after, she left home and started a career as a model, where we can see that she began to have a good feeling about the way her body looked. 

What's "gossip": Congratulations to Dmitry Sychev

 October 26, 1983 in Omsk, in the family Athlete Helen and Eugene footballer born son Dmitry Sychev. Of course, with such parents Dima simply could not passionate about the sport. As a child, a boy with equal fervor, played football and hockey. But the profession was still football.After ninth grade, Dmitry was invited to St. Petersburg football academy "Change". Sychev later tried to gain a foothold in the double Zenit, but it is not correct. So the father returned his son in Omsk.

SpyNet Mission a set of young spy

 The rapid development of portable electronics, along with the fashion for films like "Children of spyware" has created the appearance of a variety of toys on this topic. In Soviet times there were whole sets, which used to be called the "Young Chemist", "the young biologist," and so on. They are allowed to put a limited amount of some experiments and at the same time acquiring knowledge and skills to play. Wristwatch with a pseudo-intriguing title SpyNet Mission can give the illusion of playing a spy (or spy?)
Hours are 60 dollars and can lead photo-video shooting and audio recording of what is happening. Exact specifications are hidden, it is known that the diagonal of the screen 1.4 inches, and the capacity of internal memory enough to store 20 minutes of video, 4 hours of sound recordings, or 2000 images. By the way, the camera has automatic shooting mode at specified intervals - from 5 seconds to 10 minutes. Very handy for covert surveillance in the automatic mode, for example, the actions of a potential enemy, entrenched living in the neighboring yard.
In addition to the hours you can get another $ 30 plug-in video camera on a flexible wire and conduct covert shooting literally around the corner.

World Marathon Majors

In London, more than a thousand people took part in the marathon, which is dedicated to the Olympic Games in 2012.Race starts at the Theater Square near Stratford.Part of the route coincides with the fact that probegut sport in 2012.
The London Marathon was first held in 1981.Competition is the largest annual sporting event of the British capital and one of the most prestigious marathon distance in the world.Each year in the marathon are involved ordinary people, the stars and the leading athletes from different countries.


London Marathon April 26, 2009.

London Marathon, along with New York, Boston, Berlin and Chicago included in series of five «Main marathons world» (World Marathon Majors).



April 26, also held a marathon in Hamburg, which was attended by 20 thousand people.


May 9, will be a marathon on the island of Helgoland in the North Sea in Germany.


May 10, Prague (Czech Republic).


May 16, Beijing (China).


May 24, Copenhagen (Denmark).


June 14, Phuket (Thailand).


June 20, Reserve Entabeni (Yuzhaya Africa).


June 28, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).


June 28, St. Petersburg (Russia).


July 4, Zermatt (Switzerland).


July 18, Ladakh (Tibet).


August 23, Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe).


September 12, Poyyak (France).


September 20, Berlin (Germany).


September 20, Sydney (Australia).


October 4, Cologne (Germany).


October 11, Chicago (United States).


October 18, Mallorca (Spain).


October 24, Greenland.


November 1, New York (United States).


6 December, Singapore.


January 22, 2010, Dubai (UAE).

Vienna Air King

In early April, in Vienna, the best dert jumper from around the world gathered at the main contest dertovy Europe Vienna Air King.Here one could see such famous riders like Darren Berrecloth and Paul Basagoitia, as well as past winners Darren rest (winner 2006), Benny Korthausa (2007), Sam Pilgrim (2008).Russia was represented at the competition Pavel Alekhin.