Athletics

Germany - Brazil    7-1   

could you believe it, it was 5-0 after 30min. in the first half.

That was the heaviest defeat in history of the Brazilian National Football team which unfortunately happenned in a World's cup semifinal into their own country and all the planet was watching live 

For the history Germans played in rossoneri shirts. David Luiz was crying after the match    http://youtu.be/iiNnEeKCX1U

In the memories of fans came immediately all the events in the previous months. Massive demonstrations against the organization because of infrastructure costs, while social structures collapse. The killings of demonstrators in the favelas. Evictions of neighborhoods and buildings to make these malls and parking

Hi David Luiz,

My name is Ana Luz.

I saw all of the Brazil games in the World Cup and I liked it a lot watching you play.

I think that you don't need to be sad because you played well and did the best you could. You were a great captain.

Life is like this, sometimes people lose and sometimes people win but people only need to be happy.

David Luiz, you are my champion.

Ana Luz Penna Reale

Luiz posted the touching letter on Instagram and wrote, "Many thanks princess Ana Luz, loved your letter! And thanks to all Brazilians for all the support! I'll never give up my dreams, and I will always strive to give back all that love I receive! God bless you all!"

The best goals in Brazil's world cup up till now are:

1. The fantastic all time header from Van Persie

http://youtu.be/6tS0swOhqBM

2. Tim Cahill's thunderbolt in first move

http://youtu.be/mYcoiy14TQo

3. James Rodriguez fantastic volley after controlling the ball perfectly with his chest   http://youtu.be/ce58sCmWibM

The most amazing tackle-in af all times in Argentina - Holland match     http://youtu.be/TPdK5PxIhCY

Macherano tacled-in Robben saving argentina from a fatal goal in the last minutes of the game from a killing shot from Robben. 999 defenders would have failed but one out of a thousand was Macherano who did the perfect unfaulted tackle-in of all times and then he also made the most amazing declaration " I tore my arse to make that match saving tackle against Arjen Robben in the semi final

For those who have never seen or heard about Nic Gallis, he was the Greek God of basketball

to prove that here are some unbelievable statistics at the end of his carreer

total official games 753  - total points 24721  - 33 points per game

The man who was able to drive the ball into the basket only with his thought  The almighty wonderlast flying tiger of basketball

the man who was walking on the air!

the man who has won even the gravity itself

Iceland is a small country of 330.000 inhabitants

10% of its population have emigrated to France for the Euro and the rest are watching the football gathered all together wherever they can

Their head coach is a dentist and most of the players are amateurs

and people are going crazy everytime Iceland go through to the next round!  First they have beaten Nederlands two times to qualify for the finals where they have already sent home England

Since Olympic Games are coming lets remember some great moments of Courage and Good Sportmanship that only athletism can offer

"Ευ Αγωνιζεσθαι"  Good Sportmanship  develops character, it brings hope in our hearts and gives wings on our bodies. 

Because is more than just a finishing line

for the father and the son

 And we are more than just finishers

 Because you have to believe even if they don't

because even if you fall you have to rise again

Because knowing that you gave everything ...

means everything !! 

but the most amazing display of courage comes back from 1946 by a marathon man...  Stylianos Kyriakides

A man who decided to run in the Boston Marathon after 6 years of starvation and without any training all this time, proved that the soul rules and running arm to arm with his best friend Kelly, he won the Boston marathon crashing the record having wings on his heels 

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26 July   Pyrros Dimas lifts Greece high again winning the Gold medal in Atlanta 1996  after Catalonia's Gold in olympics 1992

 when he shouted  "Gia tin Ellada!"  before he lifts the weight!  BBC athletic reporters have said that if he didn't spend all that energy at that moment he should surely have lifted more than the world record!

https://youtu.be/aK7EZqOnmVI

 But Pyrros is the greatest athlete in weight-lifting three times Olympic Champion Barcelona - Atlanta - Sydney

he is from Northern Epirus and bears the heavy name of the ancient invincible King of the Greek Kigdom of Epirus Pyrrhos

Likewise the courageous Pyrrhos Dimas is the King of Greek Weightlifting and thrice Olympic Champion. recently he has agreed to work for the U.S.A.  weightlifting team after 2017

 12 minutes standing ovation in Athens, never happenned again in Olympic games!

A friend sent me an e-mail 3 weeks ago  

in which she is asking me why I believe it was an unfair decision to ban all together the whole of the Russian team from Olympics

And I answered to her  

"Why do you think is fair?

it is like you are telling me that if 13 people in a chess team are cheating then it will be fair if chess,com close the accounts of all the members of the team

for me every athlete is standing alone, every athlete is a personal hero and noone in the world has the right, in the name of any politics, to forbid a hero to run in the Olympic games which is a higher idea far beyond any politics, a dream for every athlete

Even if there are 95 cheaters out of a hundrent i will still stand by these 5 athletes even if is only one i will stand by the last one to protect his spirit

This is my logic and this will never change, it's a part of my character

And I ask everyone, can you imagine if Usain Bolt was a Russian athlete? what if that happenned? then Olympic Games would have lost an immortal hero and much of their Glory.

In memory of the unfair ban of Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics.

Good luck to all Russian athletes who will participate in the Games!

 Dear friends! THANK YOU very-very much to all of you (but saying thank you is so little) for such an immense support that you give me! Oh my God, I could not even think that all of YOU are going through all this injustice with me. Thank you for your initiatives, faith and trust. Today at the reception with President I couldn’t hold back my tears because of offence; sometimes strong women also break down and get emotional. Oh well, what doesn’t kill us, makes us even stronger. Thank you from all my heart and soul! As I was told: “Yelena, you have already won because our hearts are with you”. It is truly more significant than any victory and medal. Thank you very much for recognition!!! P.S.: Tomorrow it will be finally clear whether I have a chance to perform in Rio or not. Hope lives for 24 more hours.😌

Lefteris Petrounias,  The Lord of the Rings! 

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The Legendary Usain Bolt and the Jamaican sprinters!

Why do Jamaicans run so fast?    

Is it Cocoanut like harry Bellafonte suggests or is it something more?

Something Imbued In Their Very nature

An article in the Jamaica Gleaner dated July 8, 2008 disclosed the preliminary findings of a joint study by the University of Glasgow and University of the West Indies.  According to the article more than 200 Jamaican athletes were tested and found to possess the Actinen component (ACTN3) in their fast-twitch muscle fibres – the rapidly contracting muscle fibres that enable sprinters to run quickly.

The early data is that for the fast-twitch fibres in the muscles, there is a special component called the Actinen A, of which the gene was identified in the fast-twitch fibres found in 70 per cent of the athletes from Jamaica compared to 30 per cent of Australian athletes.

However, an article posted on the Genetic Future blog states that ‘An excessive emphasis on ACTN3 as a major explanation for Jamaican success does a grave disservice to the complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors required for top-level athletic performance’.  To this end, there is still great disagreement in the scientific community regarding the ACTN3 postulation.

Also, there is something called, in Jamaican parlance, a cock bottom.  The shape of the backbone and the hip is angled this way with the pelvis, and the front muscles afford high knee lift as opposed to when the back is straighter.  Many believe that this contributes to the extra power Jamaicans exert when they drive their legs down; this is also caused by genetics.

Aggression

It has been a long time stereotype that Jamaicans are aggressive.  However, to some extent, this may account for their blinding speed.  In the animal kingdom, the fastest animals are the ones that are most aggressive.  It stands to reason then, that there is a positive correlation between speed and aggression in a gene pool.

I believe the reggae music more than agression

The Food  

Professor Errol Morrison, president of the University of Technology, Jamaica, having done extensive studies on ‘why Jamaicans run so fast’ has purported that yams and green bananas are partially responsible.

According to Professor Morrison, yam produces a substance called hypo steroids which acts as a stimulus, while green banana produces phytate, which is four times the concentration in the yellow yams and replenishes the energy supply.  He adds "This is a hypothesis.  This is not gospel and fixed in stone.  It is a hypothesis based on a lot of biochemical research and anatomical research and I will put it down as succinctly as this: Genetics, dietetics and athletics."

gia sena, Panas!