Posted in Beijing Olympics & Paralympics on 09/16/2008 03:02 am by Claudine
Rugby as a sport is played out in a field with several players hugging a ball and trying to bring it to the their opponent’s goal. So when Marco mentioned that he bought tickets for wheelchair rugby for the three of us, I was skeptical as to how they’ll play the game.
The difference? The players are on wheelchairs, played indoors, and only 4 players to a team. It’s a cross between basketball, handball and hockey wherein you have to dribble the ball once every 10 seconds while it is in your possession and you have to bring the ball to the goalpost on your opponent’s side. They have penalties which is similar to hockey like one minute suspension and has a special area where the penalized player will have to stew.
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Posted in Beijing Olympics & Paralympics on 09/06/2008 07:54 am by Claudine
I know.. I know.. The Olympics ended two weeks ago and what the heck am I writing about more Olympic news. I was supposed to write this a week ago but was either lazy to do it or too much work to do. Anyhow, in a sport where the older you get, the difficult it is to compete, this German female gymnast overcame it all and manage to win a Silver medal in the vault category in Beijing.
When her fellow Chinese gymnasts’ age are being questioned, no one can tell her that she’s not allowed to compete. Oksana Chusovitina is 33 years old and has been competing way before her fellow competitors are even born. This is her fifth Olympics for her third team (Soviet Union, Uzbekistan, Germany). She was even on the same team as the father of the all-around individual women’s gold medalist Nastia Liukin of the US.
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Rugby as a sport is played out in a field with several players hugging a ball and trying to bring it to the their opponent’s goal. So when Marco mentioned that he bought tickets for wheelchair rugby for the three of us, I was skeptical as to how they’ll play the game.