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The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the shot—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival (1896), and women's competition began in 1948 .
the players are called Waiter and Client. In each turn, Waiter picks two positions and shows them to Client, who can choose one of them. Biased positional game each positional game has a biased variant, in which the first player can take p elements at a time and the second player can take q elements at a time (in the unbiased variant, p=q=1).
Typically play begins with one player shooting the ball from a significant distance. This shot must hit the rim, but cannot go through the basket. If either of these violations occur, the ball must be re-shot. Once the ball is legally shot, all players then fight over the rebound. This is meant to mimic the "tip-off" of a standard game.
Some sports historians continue to treat the results of these games as part of the Olympic canon. [2] At this event a men's shot put was held and Martin Sheridan of the United States won the competition. Hungary's Mihály Dávid was the runner-up while Swedish thrower Eric Lemming was the bronze medalist. [3]
Inside the barn’s 7-foot diameter shot-put ring, Crouser shifted where he started his spin a little farther to the right. It made his first step wider and added a new step into his approach.
Typewritten first draft of the rules of basketball by Naismith. On 15 January 1892, James Naismith published his rules for the game of "Basket Ball" that he invented: [1] The original game played under these rules was quite different from the one played today as there was no dribbling, dunking, three-pointers, or shot clock, and goal tending was legal.
Red hands is a game from , [1] also known as hot hands, [2] [3] slapsies, [4] [5] slap jack, red tomato, Pope slap, tennis, slaps, chicken, slappy-patties, or simply the hand slap game, [6] is a children's game which can be played by two players. One player extends their hands forward, roughly at arm's length, with the palms down.
He also competed in Scottish Highland Games in the 1970s. Utilizing his experience in the shot put, he set many field records in the Stone put . His career-best throw of 63 ft 2 in in the light stone, accomplished at Braemar , Scotland , in 1973, was a world record until 2013.