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With talk of China's high rates of pollution dominating headlines in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it is important to remember that sport and the environment can go hand in hand.In the last year, the Chinese capital has been the subject of much media scrutiny surrounding its...
The recent Beijing Olympic protests in London, Paris and San Francisco are juvenile if compared with the great history of Greece where people really knew how to disturb the games.

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Green Olympics - London and the Environment in 2012

Olympic combat sportsWith talk of China's high rates of pollution dominating headlines in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it is important to remember that sport and the environment can go hand in hand.In the last year, the Chinese capital ...

Combat Sports - An Overview

Combat sportsAny form of contact sport between two people is known as combat sports. This form of sport is also known as combative sport. This includes all forms of martial arts, wrestling and boxing. The point of this sport is to ...

Sambo (martial art) - Styles

Martial ArtThere are three FIAS recognized competitive sport variations of Sambo (though Sambo techniques and principles can be applied to many other combat sports). *Sport Sambo (,”Bor’ba Sambo”, ” Sambo Wrestling (eng)”) is stylistically similar to Olympic Freestyle Wrestling or Judo, ...

The History of Olympic Protest

Combat sports newsThe recent Beijing Olympic protests in London, Paris and San Francisco are juvenile if compared with the great history of Greece where people really knew how to disturb the games.

Judo: the Ancient Combat Sport Gains Universal Acceptance and Support

Combat sportsAn article describing the sport of judo

Introduction to the Game of Boxing

Boxing equipmentBoxing is a combat game played throughout the world. The history of the combat sports game seems to be more interesting and the participation of people get increased day by day.

Sambo (martial art) - History

Martial ArtOrigins and influences Sambo was in part born of native Russian and other regional styles of grappling and combative wrestling, bolstered with the most useful and adaptable concepts and techniques from the rest of the world. Over the centuries, the ...

History of martial arts - Europe

Martial artsAntiquity European martial arts becomes tangible in Greek antiquity with Pankration and other martially oriented disciplines of the Ancient Olympics. Boxing became Olympic in Greece as early as 688 BCDetailed depictions of wrestling techniques are preserved in vase paintings of ...

A Brief History of Gymnastics

History_combat_sportsThis article discusses where gymnastics got its start and how the sport has evolved over the centuries.

History of Wrestling

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Combat Canada Canadian Martial Arts Online Magazine Review

Martial arts stylesFind out what you need to know about Canadian Taekwondo and see if it is right for you at this time. Learn the truth about Canadian Taekwondo and make up your own mind.

Nothing New Under the Sun: Mixed Martial Arts Bears Striking Resemblance to Ancient Greek Pankration

Fighting stylesCall it Mixed Martial Arts or Ultimate Fighting... but this competition form is far from modern. Combining Greco-Roman wrestling and martial arts, MMA resembles the ancient Greek sport of pankration.
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