Famous sports in
OSSETIA RUSSIA BRITAIN
Ex. 1 Read the quatations, explain them and say what they mean for you.
1. Be sporty today to be healthy and wealthy tomorrow.
2. Sport is friendship, sport is health, sport is education, sport is life, sport brings the world together.
Antonio Samaranch.
Ex.2 Read the texts about famous sports in Ossetia and match them with the pictures.
Armwrestling as a sport appeared only recently, only in 1952. In the salon of Gilardi, Petaluma, California. The strongest men gathered in the evenings measuring themselves with the strength of their hands. There were champions among them, entitled to interest free credit from the owner of the bar. The founder of arm wrestling as a sport is Bill Joberanes, an American journalist who was first inspired by the idea of holding competitions on it. Now arm wrestling has a great success in Ossetia.
Fencing is a group of three related combat sports. The three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre; winning points are made through the contact with an opponent. A fourth discipline, singlestick, appeared in the 1904 Olympics but was dropped after that, and is not a part of modern fencing. Fencing was one of the first sports to be played in the Olympics. Based on the traditional skills of swordsmanship, the modern sport arose at the end of the 19th century, with the Italian school having modified the historical European martial art of classical fencing, and the French school later refining the Italian system. Later at the beginning of the 20th century it was brought to Ossetia by the famous ossetia traveler Soslan Tsarikati.
Wrestling represents one of the oldest forms of combat. The origins of wrestling go back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France. Babylonian and Egyptian reliefs show wrestlers using most of the holds
known in the present-day sport. In ancient Greece wrestling occupied a prominent place in legend and literature; wrestling competition, brutal in many aspects, served as the focal sport of the ancient Olympic Games. The ancient Romans borrowed heavily from Greek wrestling, but eliminated much of its brutality.
Boxing was originated in Ancient Greece. It was included during the first Olympic Games and was not a safe sport. Boxers never used to use gloves with ; line-height: 115%; widows: 2; orphans: 2">
Ex.3 Look at the pictures. Who is familiar to you?
What sport does he / she do?
Ex. 4 Read the texts and answer the questions.
What do these sportsmen have in common?
What are the differences?
Murat Gassiev was born in October 12, 1993. His parents weren't rich, despite this, they did their best to give him and his elder brother a decent upbringing. When Murat was 9, a tragedy occurred to the family - his father, Georgy Gassiev, died. Murat's mother was left alone with two sons, so to feed her family she took three jobs and when Murat turned 13, he himself began to work on a construction site to help his mother.
He was fond of judo, football, wrestling, but when he was 14 his brother told him to visit the boxing training. From the very first moment he realized that he had found an occupation to his liking (of his own). Despite of the fact that the group in the sports club had already been recruited, the coaches liked the kid's behavior on the ring as the athletic teenager defeated the sparring partner.
Gassiev made his professional boxing debut at the age of 17,beating 22-year-old Roman Mirzoev, this fight was followed by another 27 very impressive wins.
At the Bolshoy Ice Dome, which took place in February 2018, Gassiev defeated Yunier Dorticos, and now he is preparing for another big fight with Oleksandr Usyk.
His boxing nickname "Iron" is a result of a literal translation from English and from ossetian word meaning Ossetian [Iron].
David Beckham is a well-known English footballer, who is now retired. During his career he played for various clubs, including “Manchester United”, “Real Madrid”, “Milan”. He is especially famous for his excellent performance skills on the field and free kicks. In 2011, he became the highest-paid footballer in the world.
David Robert Joseph Beckham was born on the 2nd of May 1975 in Leytonstone, London.
David Beckham was the family’s only son. David inherited his parents’ love of Manchester United, and his main sporting passion was football.
When David was a toddler, his dad, Ted made balls out of rolled-up socks for him to kick. He became a phenom almost from the moment he could first kick a soccer ball.
His dream kick started at this point.
In a 2007 interview, Beckham said that, “At school whenever the teachers asked, ‘What do you want to do when you’re older?’ I’d say, ‘I want to be a footballer.’ And they’d say, ‘No, what do you really want to do, for a job?’ But that was the only thing I ever wanted to do.”
Ex.5 Imagine you have an opportunity to invite a famous ossetian sportsman in your class. You have 2 minutes to prepare questions you want to ask him.
Ex. 6 Study research strategies and find some more facts about other famous sportsmen in Ossetia.
DID YOU KNOW THAT...
1. The first champions of the Olympics in wrestling were ossetians Totrov Alikhan and Tedeev Elkan.
2. The most popular kinds of sports in Ossetia are wrestling, boxing, fencing and football.
3. There are 56 olympic champions in Ossetia.
4. A famous coach of Russian football team is Stanislav Cherchesov. He is an ex-goal keeper of Vladikavkaz football team.
5. The best wrestling school of Russia is in Ossetia.
HOME TASK
Find some more facts about other famous sportsman in Ossetia.
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