Archive for August, 2012
Spotlight on Synchronized Swimming Posted by Gabriele on Aug 6, 2012
In my opinion synchronized swimming is a very elegant sport. I enjoy watching it every four years during the summer Olympics. Unfortunately this isn’t a popular enough sport in the United States for synchronized swimming to be on TV very much other than during the Olympics. To stick with our theme of the Olympics…
Gymnastics in the Olympics Posted by Gabriele on Aug 5, 2012
Gymnastics is one of the most popular spectator sports in the Olympic Games. People love to watch gymnastics. Gymnastics is not just one sport though. In the Olympics there are three categories of gymnastic events: Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline and there are multiple events within these categories. In this post we will take a closer…
The triathlon and triathlon vocabulary Posted by Gabriele on Aug 3, 2012
Because the triathlon is a multi-sport event involving competition in swimming, cycling, and running, there is a lot of great English vocabulary we can discuss around this one Olympic event. First of all let’s discuss what this sport involves. This is an endurance sport in which athletes compete in continuous (back-to-back) events of swimming, cycling…
Precious metals and precious medals Posted by Gabriele on Aug 2, 2012
You may have noticed how closely related the words medal (as in Olympic gold medal) and metal (as the metal silver) are in English. This is no coincidence. The two words are written and pronounced very similarly, you can hear the pronunciation of these two words here by clicking on each one: medal and…