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George Lowe (89 years) the last member of the Sir Edmund Hillary Everest expedition is died
(Lowe is the third on the left and Hillary the second on the right)
Read on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/22/george-lowe-last-everest-pioneer-dies
Italian sprint legend Pietro Mennea dead, one of the myths of world sport. Someone wrote that we should not need myths, I am personally convinced of the contrary. Myths are for me the land to which safe return when I feel uncertain. Are those thoughts that you do not have every day, because it would be like wasting them, but they are there when you are in difficult times and give you the conviction to continue. It’s clear that everybody represents them in his/her own way but they have become legends for their intrinsic characteristics of dedication, toughness, strength, the absolute idea of being able to be as you wish. Of course, they reached what they want, as it was for Mennea unforgettable victories and a stunning record on 200m. An absolute life, a real positive Blade Runner.
world record 200m: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sczSLGRXDY
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Spring is a time of marathons. It began with that of Rome on previous Sunday and now there are London, Paris, Boston, Berlin, Prague to name just a few. It’s a sport which now gathers hundreds of thousands of practitioners and individual practice is certainly more prevalent among adults. What attracts people to run, probably the ease of access, have friends who already run and do it with them, the opportunity to run outdoors and inside parks, to run for as long as you want, alternating it with the walk and then stretch at pleasure the time, to choose when to do it depending on the free time. Another interesting aspect is that it is a sport, running, much practiced by women. It seems trivial to mention it but instead it was not always possible. In fact Kathrine Switzer (USA) was the first woman to run and finish a marathon (Boston, 1967), five years before the official acceptance of women. She participated in the race as K.V. Switzer, so the organizers could not discover that it was a woman. During the race, she managed to escape from the organizers’ attempt to eliminate it. She ran 35 marathons and won the New York Marathon in 1974.
Listen Switzer talk about her first marathon:
Since coaches and physical coaches do not teach to perform a deep breath, I want to give you some guidelines to do it. Breathing deeply is a great way to reduce stress throughout the body and has a significant positive influence on the mind.
Trained to do a series of three breaths at a time x three times in succession, when you finished three breathing, before to start again, take a short break of 30 seconds.
More and more often I wonder why most coaches do not recommend their athletes to follow a program of mental training. I do not mean the beginners but who practice one sport for many years and who want to enhance their skills when they compete. The typical words of the coaches in front of the psychological difficulties are “put a little more than …” and here you can choose the psychological dimension that it is considered the most appropriate: more confidence, more focus, more determination, more effort and so on. The problem is that athletes usually do not understand these sentences, and do not know how “to be more.” On the other hand the lack of attention to the psychological dimension of the coaches is evident in the fact that almost no athlete knows how to take a deep breath; lost no time to teach! While it is well known that a deep breath permit to lower a too high psychological tension level but never mind when the coach is in this situation he will say to his athlete, the decisive sentence “be calm,” and as a result the athlete or will feel even more tense or be angry with the coach who does not able to help him.
How do we solve this problem? Simply,the athletes more aware of the mind value decide by themselves to go to an expert in mental coaching, of course there are also coaches that guide the athletes to follow this option but they are few.
Italy rugby has always been a nice unfinished, sometimes it won a game but usually it fell so ruinous by the more relevant teams. Some weeks ago Brunel, the national coach, said that any team can make an exploit and win a game, but the teams technically and psychologically mature are able to win others and to be competitive. This season, Italy had behaved in this way a few times, winning against France and playing on par with the British and quite well with New Zealand, but then it was lost again with Wales and Scotland. In other words, he had lost games who would win, Wales and Scotland, where then the greater was the competitive pressure, which stemmed from the knowledge that they can get a positive result; whereas it was certain to lose and so scarce was the level of pressure, the team played its best games while losing. This showed that the technical-tactical and physical condition were good but lacked the confidence to play with opponents of the same level, where the difference was much more the team played less obsessed by the result and this has allowed it to play better. The match against Ireland was then a good opportunity for the national team to prove that it was able to play to win against an opponent of equal level and, therefore, in a situation of maximum competitive pressure. The national team has won and then passed this test of maturity and it’s not been casual the team did many points with kicks which have always been a weak point and on the contrary in this game have been placed at the sign.
Although Mitch Seavey won the big battle, a number of pitched struggles for position took place after the winner of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race crossed the finish line in Nome. The difference of one spot in the standing was worth thosands of dollars to the musher.
No race to the finish was closer than the struggle for seventh place, where Norwegian rookie Joar Leifseth Ulsom nipped Jake Berkowitz of Big Lake by just 16 seconds. Even eighth place was a success for Berkowitz, who was one of the many mushers to contend for the lead in one of the most turbulent Iditarods of recent history. Last year, Berkowitz was in position for a top-10 finish on the home stretch when he severely cut his hand with a knife, forcing him to drop out of the race.
By Wednesday morning, 14 mushers had passed beneath the burled arch on Nome’s Front Street to end their 1,000-mile journey across Alaska. Defending champion Dallas Seavey (son of the winner) drove a young dog team to fourth place behind Jeff King and Aily Zirkle.
And 59-year-old DeeDee Jonrowe finished an impressive 10th. That was the 16th top-10 finish in a career dating back to 1980 — and her second 10th place finish in a row. Here’s a quick look at the finishers so far:
1. Mitch Seavey, Sterling, 9 days, 7 hours, 40 minutes; 2. Aily Zirkle, Two Rivers, 9 days, 8 hours, 4 minutes; 3. Jeff King, Denali Park, 9 days, 9 hours, 22 minutes; 4. Dallas Seavey, Willow, 9 days, 10 hours, 21 minutes; 5. Ray Redington, Wasilla, 9 days, 11 hours, 5 minutes; 6. Nicolas Petit, Girdwood, 9 days, 11 hours, 39 minutes; 7. Joar Ulsom, Norway, 9 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes; 8. Jake Berkowitz, Big Lake, 9 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes; 9. Sonny Lindner, Fairbanks, 9 days, 13 hours, 11 minutes; 10. DeeDee Jonrowe, Willow, 9 days, 13 hours, 25 minutes; 11. Aaron Burmeister, Nome, 9 days, 14 hours, 19 minutes; 12. Ken Anderson, Fairbanks, 9 days, 16 hours, 9 minutes; 13. Peter Kaiser, Bethel, 9 days, 17 hours, 37 minutes; 14. Josh Cadzow, Fort Yukon, 9 days, 18 hours, 8 minutes.
