Sports ENG

autors: Nezināms



Doing sports and playing games is the best way to keep yourself fit. People enjoy taking part in sport. Some people are just passive sport fans – they prefer to watch rather than to take part themselves, read sports pages in the newspapers and follow the sports report on the radio and on TV.

I think that I’m passive sports fan in winter and active in summer, because my favourite sports are swimming and skiing. I cannot ski myself, so I watch it on TV. Most of all I like slalom and downhill skiing.

I usually watch competitions on TV. Sometimes I put skis on and try to ski myself, but I think it looks terrible.

I used to train for swimming for 5 years, but I gave it up, because I had no time to go to trainings. Now I go swimming only once a week, because it is part of our PE program. I like watching swimming competitions on TV.

I watch Olympic Games on TV. I like winter Olympic Games more, because they include so many events in skiing, that it is never boring. In swimming there are only 4 ways how to swim breast stroke, crawl, back crawl, butterfly – stroke and complex swim, where sportsmen swim in all the ways. First comes butterfly – stroke, then back crawl, breast stroke and crawl.

I know that Agnese Ozoliņa is a popular swimmer in Latvia. When I used to train we trained together. She usually swims in crawl and complex swim.

I don’t like gym lessons at our school because they are boring. When we have changed into sport suits, we gather in the gymnasium. The teacher tells us to line up. Then we warm up by running, then she orders us to do some exercises that we know. Then we learn some exercises and the teacher gives us marks. We seldom play games. But the games are not interesting, because we are exhausted and nobody wants to play games.

The usual tradition in our school is a sports day. Classes compete in different events like basketball, floorball, volleyball and others. Sometimes we have a funny sports day. Then we have to do so strange things like jumping in a bag. I usually join and it is interesting and funny to do such strange sports.