lamhil september 2012 - E-Pao!

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��About 42,000 tennis balls are used in
the plus-minus 650 matches in the
Wimbledon Championship.
�� The first puck ever used in a hockey
game was a frozen piece of cow crap.
�� Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia are
building a 27-hole golf course on the
border between the three countries, with
nine holes in each country. Much of the
area proposed for the golf course is
currently a minefield.
�� The Olympic Flame is a symbol of
the fire stolen from the Greek God Zeus.
Months before the opening ceremony of
the Olympic games the torch is lit at the
ancient site of the Olympics in Olympia.
�� A ceremony is performed by Eleven
women called priestesses in which the
torch is lit by a parabolic mirror which
concentrates the rays of the sun.
��Shaquille O Neal wears size 22 shoes.
He puts on a brand new pair before every
game.
��Soccer is the most attended or watched
sport in the world.
��Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
��Archery is the national sport in Bhutan,a
Buddhist country in Asia.
�� South Korea is the birthplace of
taekwondo, an olympic sport since 2000.
��Before the turn of the century, prize
fighters fought bare fisted. Matches
sometimes lasted more than one hundred
rounds and were counted by knock outs.
��You ve probably heard your coach or
parents say, !It s all fun and games until
someone loses an eye." Well that phrase
FUN-O-LICIOUS
THE MOST AMAZING FACTS ABOUT SPORTS AND GAMES!
comes from Ancient Rome. The only rule
during Roman wrestling matches was, !No
eye gouging." Biting, kicking and scratching
were allowed but the only way to be
disqualified was to poke someone s eye out.
��If a horse wins a race !hands down" it
means the jockey never raised his whip
during the race.
�� Korfball is the only sport played with
mixed teams, consisting of 4 men and 4
women.
The national sport of Japan is sumo
wrestling.
��The Aztec and Maya Indians of Mexico
and Central America played a complicated
kind of ball game not unlike lacrosse. The
game, played in a large stadium and
witnessed by thousands of spectators, went
on for several hours. When the game was
finished, the captain of the losing team was
slaughtered before the onlookers, his body
torn limb from limb, and pieces of his heart
passed among the crowd for members of
the audience to nibble.
��Gymnasiums were introduced in 900BC
and Greek athletes practised in the nude to
the accompaniment of music. They also
performed naked at the Olympic Games.
�� In 1905, 18 men died from injuries
sustained on the football field. President
Theodore Roosevelt stepped in and instituted
safety measures to make the game safer.
�� There are 318,979,564,000 ways of
playing the first four turns in a game of chess.
There are
169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000
ways of playing the first ten turns of a game
of chess.