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Sunday, January 17, 2010

There are a total of 26 sports in YOG held in Singapore this year. They are:
-Aquatics
-Archery
-Athletics
-Badminton
-Basketball
-Boxing
-Canoe-Kayak
-Cycling
-Equestrian
-Fencing
-Football
-Gymnastics
-Handball
-Hockey
-Judo
-Modern Pentathlon
-Rowing
-Sailing
-Shooting
-Table Tennis
-Triathlon
-Volleyball
-Weightlifting
-Wrestling

-Aquatics:Aquatic is a type of water sport.
-Archery:Archery is the use of a bow to shoot arrows.
-Athletics:Athletics is like sports you run, jump, etc.
-Badminton:A sport played by volleying a shuttlecock back and forth over a high narrow net by means of a long-handled, light racket.
-Basketball:A game played between two teams of five players each.
-Boxing:A sport of fighting with the fists.
-Canoe-Kayak:Flatwater, whitewater and marathon
-Cycling:The sport of riding on a bicycle.
-Equestrian:The art of riding and handling a horse.
-Fencing:The sport of using a foil.
-Football:A game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goal posts at either end.
-Gymnastics:Physical exercises designed to develop and display strength
-Handball:A game similar in scoring to volleyball that is played by two or more players who hit a ball against a wall with their hands usually while wearing a special glove.
-Hockey:Hockey or field hockey was once played exclusively on grass and was a relatively slow, tactical game in which players tended to confine their activities to certain areas of the pitch.
-Judo:A sport and method of physical training similar to wrestling
-Modern Pentathlon:An athletic contest in which each participant competes in five events: running, swimming, horseback riding, fencing, and pistol shooting.
-Rowing:Propulsion of a boat by means of oars. As a sport, it involves one of two kinds of boat: (1) the shell, a narrow, light racing boat propelled by eight rowers pulling single oars under the direction of a coxswain; and (2) the scull, a racing shell propelled by one or two rowers using sculls (pairs of oars).
-Sailing:The sport of operating or riding in a sailboat.
-Shooting:The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
-Table tennis:A game similar to lawn tennis, played on a table with wooden paddles and a small hollow plastic ball.
-Triathlon:An athletic contest in which participants compete without stopping in three successive events, usually long-distance swimming, bicycling, and running.
-Volleyball:A game played by two teams on a rectangular court divided by a high net, in which both teams use up to three hits to ground the ball on the opposing team's side of the net.
-Weightlifting:The lifting of heavy weights in a prescribed manner as an exercise or in athletic competition.
-Wrestling:A sport in which two competitors attempt to throw or immobilize each other by grappling.

~Ng An


CVPS YOG Admin posted @7:41 PM
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