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August 24th, 2010 | Author: The international times

For some of us, sport is a kind of activities that will be useful for our health. But for some others, there are some sports that might be useful to earn some money. No, we are not talking about making some bets over the sport games. We are talking about golf. For some people, this sport has been considered as the kind of expensive sport. It is really expensive, but it’s worth with the benefits.

Some of us do the golf to make some business lobbies too. During the golf, soon after the swing the club, they will walk to find the ball. This is the main activities of golfing actually, walking. During the walking episodes, the golfers might start some negotiations. The negotiations will be continued soon after the last holes’ game was completed.
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June 04th, 2010 | Author: The international times

Sport is an activity that is liked by many people. Many people do sport as they attempt to get a good body shape, as their way of maintaining their health, their way of relieving stress and even as refreshment. This is proved from the number of gym that are built with the concept of entertainment, complete with cafes, etc.

Sport will be very useful if it is balanced with healthy lifestyles, such as keeping your diet, choosing food that is good, and of course doing a healthy cooking process. Sport itself has a few categories. There are those who categorize the sport into two classes, which are cheap sport and expensive sport. Expensive sports could include golf, which requires us to have adequate equipments before we can do it that unfortunately are not cheap. We also have to rent a court, caddy, etc.
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May 18th, 2010 | Author: The international times

Very long time ago in 1988 when Olympics were held in Seoul, there is one name that famous and was a being a hot topic which consider as the fastest man in the world. He was the first man who reaches the finish line in one of the athletic series, of 100m sprint, he is Ben Johnson. He was a Canadian sprinter. He received a gold medal.

But unfortunately not too long after the euphoria, public were shocked from the news reported that Ben Johnson has actually cheated in that Olympic event. He used steroids in order to make him able to run very fast. The Olympic committee found from his urine that he has consumed this banned drug before this event held. Ben Johnson then was obliged to give back the medal and considered to be a disgraced attitude.
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May 17th, 2010 | Author: The international times

The word sport came from French language desport which means “leisure”. The definition of sport is an activity that push all the effort of physical with full of skill, competitive and managed. It emphasized two important aspects which are dedication and fair play. It will begin with certain set of rules before play the sport.

The winning or losing part is determined by the skills and physical factors. There are several parts can join the sport that are human, animal, things like balls, marbles and machines. Certain sport which called with mind sport, it will only require mental activities, such as chess, domino, bridge, and board games. Other sport which not considered to be a competition are like jogging, bike riding, hiking, snorlking and rock climbing. These are more close to recreations.
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May 09th, 2010 | Author: The international times

In the past, the goal of people doing some sports is merely to be healthier. This process of doing some sport can be done alone, yet, very often they do it together by creating some competition. This enlarged the need of sport to the competition and winning prize. So many clubs then formed to fulfill the need of competing in sport. This has been developed through time, and has reached so many aspects of life of modern people in needing sport not only as a mean of being healthy, but also as a mean of entertainment.

The completion of clubs makes a good entertainment for so many people all over the world. The first development is that this people start to be a loyal spectator of a sport game. After they become a spectator of a game, they begin to be a fanatic supporter of a certain club. This becomes a gold mine for many companies to sell for the merchandise of the club, to be bought by the supporters as the symbol of their loyalty towards one club.
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