Sports Equipment

Kids need regular exercise to remain healthy and burn off the excess amounts of energy that kids tend to have.  While some sports have a lot of complicated rules, there are a number of sports that are popular amongst children and their parents.  Soccer is a classic example of a fun sport for kids.  The objective is simple; kick the ball into the soccer net at the opposing end of the field.  Everyone can touch the ball with their feet, one player can touch the ball with their hands.  This is the kind of sport that is a lot of fun for kids, and it also provides excellent exercise.  Basketball is another option that provides a simple goal and also allows kids to move around. 

There are lots of fun exercises that kids can be interested in, and it’s important to introduce them to different activities as they grow up.  Tennis for example can be a little difficult for a child in kindergarten, but can be a lot more fun in later grades when children develop better hand-eye coordination and motor skills. 

  In Association Football (Soccer), the goal is the sole method of scoring. It is also the term used for the scoring structure. To score a goal, the ball must pass completely over the goal line between the goal posts and under the crossbar and no rules may be violated (such as touching the ball with the hand or arm).

A rectangular goal is positioned at the middle of each goal line. The inner edges of the vertical goal posts must be 7.3 m (8 yd) apart, and the lower edge of the horizontal crossbar supported by the goal posts must be 2.44 m (8 ft) above the ground. Nets are usually placed behind the goal, but are not required by the Rules.

Soccer nets come in a Junior size and an official size, which usually of a polyetaylene.
Junior size soccer net is 24′ x 4′ x 8′ x 10′ with a 2.5 mm twisted 5 inch square.
Official size comes in various sizes.

Official Size Soccer Net:  24′ x 4′ x 8′ x 10′ with a 2.0 mm twisted 5 inch square
Official Size Soccer Net:  24′ x 4′ x 8′ x 10′ with a 2.5 mm twisted 5 inch square
Official Size Soccer Net:  24′ x 4′ x 8′ x 10′ with a 3.0 mm twisted 5 inch square
Official Size Soccer Net:  24′ x 4′ x 8′ x 10′ with a 3.5 mm twisted 5 inch square
Official Size Soccer Net:  24′ x 4′ x 8′ x 10′ with a 4.0 mm twisted 5 inch square

Opening ceremony

Main article: 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing will be held in the Beijing National Stadium, and begin at 8:00pm CST (12:00 UTC) on 8 August 2008. It has been announced that Canada’s Celine Dion and Taiwan’s Jay Chou would perform during the opening ceremony.

On July 21, NBC announced the Opening Ceremony would include performances by a cast of 15,000 and declared it would be the most spectacular Olympics Opening Ceremony ever produced.

Sports

This pictogram depicts Athletics.

Medals of the 2008 Summer Olympics: silver (left), gold (center), bronze (right)

The program for the Beijing 2008 Games is quite similar to that of the Athens Games held in 2004. The 2008 Olympics will see the return of 28 sports, and will hold 302 events (165 men’s events, 127 women’s events, and 10 mixed events), one event more in total than in Athens.

Overall 9 new events will be held, which include 2 from the new cycling discipline of BMX. Women will compete in the 3000 m steeplechase for the first time. In addition, marathon swimming events for men and women, over the distance of 10 kilometres, will be added to the swimming discipline. Team events (men and women) in table tennis will replace the doubles events. In fencing, women’s team foil and women’s team sabre will replace men’s team foil and women’s team epee.

The Beijing Organizing Committee have released pictograms of the 35 Olympic disciplines. This set of sport icons is named the beauty of seal characters, due to each pictogram’s likeness to Chinese seal script.

The following are the sports to be contested at these Games. The number of events to be contested in each sport is indicated in parentheses.

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