Men inscribed their names in a new history Olympic golf And now it's the women's turn. Interestingly, the men last competed in 1904, but the women's Olympic gold medal was played 4 years earlier. At the Paris Olympics in 1900. Then Olympic champion became an American Margaret Abbott (Margaret Abbott).
As in the men's tournament, the first strike on Wednesday will be made by the representative of Brazil. It will be Miriam Nagl. Together with her in the first group will go Irish Leona McGuire (Leona Maguire) and Kelly Tan (Kelly Tan) from Malaysia.
I think it will be quite interesting to watch on Thursday and Friday for a group that will start their Olympic game at 11:09. Lydia Ko from New Zealand, Anna Nordqvist from Sweden and Charley Hull from Great Britain will meet here. How I would like to draw an analogy between the Anglo-Swedish confrontation in the men's tournament and this pair. However, I am almost sure that Lydia Ko will not let Anna and Charlie fight for victory alone.
All of us, of course, are interested in the starting time and rivals of our Maria Verchenova, but more on that later.
A little earlier than this group (namely, at 9:14) there will be an equally interesting company - the third number of the world ranking Canadian Brooke Henderson, the two-time winner of the majors Suzann Pettersen from Norway and the 4th number of the rating American Lexi Thompson. Thompson).
It is interesting that, unlike the men's Olympic tournament, there was a place for three amateurs in the women's tournament. These are the already mentioned McGuire, Tiffany Chan from Hong Kong and Albane Valenzuela from Switzerland.
Our first-ever Olympic golfer, Maria Verchenova, starts Wednesday at 9:36 a.m. with Spaniard Carlota Gigande and Indian wunderkind Aditi Ashok.
I had a chance to closely observe the game of this young talent at the European Women's Championship last year. She was then invited to the European tournament and was in first place before the final day. In the final, unfortunately, she lost to the Spaniard. Immediately after this championship, Aditi turned pro and was able to score enough points in the ranking in just six months to get to the Olympics. Rise how swift, so unnoticed by the general public. But in vain! I highly recommend taking a closer look at this talented representative of India.
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Today at 7:30 am, a 112-year hiatus in golf's participation in the Olympic Games has ended. Recall that the last time golfers competed for Olympic medals was in 1904 in St. Louis.
Of course, golf has come a long way over the years of change and improvement. And in inventory. And in the design and maintenance of fields. And in the rules.
In the Rules, by the way, the changes are not so strong. Much of what concerns hitting the ball, taking a playing stance, dealing with obstacles, has come down to the Rio Olympics almost unchanged since the days of St. Louis. And advice, just as it was banned in 1904, is still banned today. All in all, it's amazing how much of the Rule Book has remained unchanged over the years. Of course, if we talk about principles, not about formulations.
Significant changes in the Rules have affected the field. For example, in 1904, a green was the part of the ground within 20 yards of a hole, excluding hurdles. And the very concept of "barrier" then had a slightly different meaning.
In those days, “any bunker, water (with the exception of random), sand, paths, railway tracks, thorny thickets, bushes, earth excavated by rabbits, a fence or a ditch were called an obstacle. Those. not just a banker or a water barrier, as it is now.
Of course, modern Olympians are unlikely to have to eliminate the influence of railroad tracks. However, around the field there are many areas called "native" (native), which are sandy areas. These places are not bunkers in the modern sense, although in 1904 they were "clear water" barriers.
There are, however, some things that make the game of modern Olympians easier. For example, today a player in a long putt may ask to hold his flag. In 1904 it was forbidden! Furthermore, if the player's ball was on the green (i.e., within 20 yards of the flag), he was prohibited from playing until the flag was removed from the hole. One penalty was awarded for the violation.
A difficult field (and no one dares to call the field in Rio simple) always implies the possibility that the ball will be in an unplayable position.
Modern Olympian golfers have three options to deal with such a situation (Rule 28) – repeat from a previous spot, drop the ball on the flag-ball line at any distance behind, or drop the ball within two clubs, no closer to the hole. In 1904, they could only go back along the line from the flag. And it cost them not one penalty (as it is now), but two! There was, however, one relief - the ball could be installed on a tee stand. I can imagine what advantages this could give to modern players!
Modern Rules are more severe on those who send their ball out of bounds. Such a player receives a “loss of stroke and distance” penalty. Those. he must repeat the kick from the previous place and score himself an additional free kick. In St. Louis, the player only lost distance. He was not entitled to an additional penalty.
In 1904, the situation with playing the wrong ball was also easier. If a player discovered that he had played someone else's ball, then he simply had to return to his ball and play it. No penalty was imposed for this. For modern players, this is worth two free throws.
From the above, one could conclude that it was much easier for the players in the last Olympiad. However, we will give an example that refutes this. In Rio, if a player makes a kick from outside the teeing area, he will receive two free kicks for this and will have to correct his mistake immediately. It seems too severe punishment for an error in setting the ball a few centimeters! However, in St. Louis, for the same mistake, an immediate and unconditional disqualification was due!
These are the differences that have accumulated over 112 years of waiting for the Olympic golf tournament. The rule that has remained unchanged over the years is that the winner of the game on the score is the one who spends the least number of strokes to complete the tournament rounds. And we are looking forward to seeing the Olympic podium after 112 years of absence.
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Golf (from English. golf) - a male Olympic sport in which individual participants or teams try to drive a small ball with clubs into special holes. What is important, the ball must be rolled into the hole in fewer strokes.
The history of the emergence and development of golf
The exact date of the origin of golf is not known, but it is believed that it was invented by Scottish shepherds who tried to roll stones into rabbit holes with their staffs. Although many historians disagree, it is believed that golf originated in the Roman Empire and was played with bent sticks and a ball stuffed with feathers. According to other theories, golf appeared in China during the reign of the Ming Dynasty, this is evidenced by a scroll depicting an emperor who is trying to drive the ball into the hole with something similar to a club.
However, modern golf comes from Scotland. The first mention of the game is considered to be the decree of 1457 of King James II of Scotland on the prohibition of golf, as it distracted archers from training. Rules and a system with 18 holes on the field were also invented there.
In 1900, golf was first included in the program of the Olympic Games in Paris (France).
Golf rules (briefly)
Before starting the game, you must do the following:
- Read the local rules of the game.
- Put an identification mark on the ball. This is necessary so that you can identify your ball among the rest. If the ball could not be identified, then it is considered lost.
- Check the number of clubs, it is allowed to have no more than 14 pieces.
The game of golf begins with the starting zone, or as it is also called the "tee" zone. It is so named because of the T-shaped stand on which the ball is placed. Ideally, the player should send the ball into the main zone with the first hit, then overcome it in a few hits and send the ball to the area with perfect grass (“green”). In order to roll the ball into the hole from the green, you need to use a special stick - a putter.
In addition to the standard rules, there are rules of etiquette in golf:
- Refrain from playing until the group in front has moved to a safe distance.
- Never delay the game. Empty the putting green immediately after all players in your group have completed the hole.
- Skip forward groups that play faster than you.
- Restore sod.
- Level the tracks in the bunkers.
- Don't step on another partner's putting line
- Do not carry clubs onto the putting green.
- Insert the flag carefully.
Golf course
The golf course must meet a number of requirements, namely, it must consist of a series of holes, each of the holes must have its own starting area. There are two marks on the starting area that show the permissible boundaries of the zone for placing a peg for the ball. In addition to the launch pad, there are: a smooth field, an uneven field and other obstacles on the field.
The final part of the site is the hole, which is marked with a flag for ease of orientation. The hole is placed in an area with a minimum height of grass, which is called the "green". In other areas, the height of the grass fluctuates, this is done in order to make it difficult for players to pass through the site.
As a rule, the holes are located in the line of sight from the starting area to the green. But this is not always the case, if the holes deviate to the left or to the right, then such holes are called “left dogleg” and “right dogleg”, respectively. If the direction curves twice, then the hole is called a "double dogleg".
The courts consist of 18 holes, but there are courses with 9 holes, in this situation they are played twice, which in total is the same 18 holes.
Inventory and equipment for golf
Let's start the review of golf equipment with clubs. A player can take no more than 14 clubs with him to the game, each of them is designed to perform a certain stroke. Golf clubs are divided into two types:
- "Wood" (woods) - clubs designed to perform strikes at maximum distances, as a rule, these are the first strikes. They are called "wood" (from the English "tree") because of the wooden head, although modern woods are made from metal alloys based on titanium.
- "Iron" (irons) - clubs designed to perform strikes at various distances, depending on the position of the ball. Sticks are so named because their head is made of metal.
In addition to the material, clubs differ in the shape of the heads. So for strikes over short distances and with a high trajectory, pitching wedge clubs (wedge) are used, the angle of inclination for such clubs is 50-60 degrees. If the shot needs to be made from a sand bin, then a sand wedge stick is suitable for this, it has a heavier sole and a special shape. For finishing shots, players use a club called a "putter", which is designed specifically for hitting on a flat surface with great accuracy.
In the "wood" and "iron" groups, clubs are numbered depending on the angle between the shaft and the face of the head. The lower the number, the longer the potential impact trajectory. The difference in the length of strokes with clubs of neighboring numbers is about 10 meters.
Another important piece of golf equipment is the balls. They must have the following characteristics:
- diameter not less than 4.27 cm,
- weight within 41-46 grams,
- the surface of the ball should have 300-500 dimples (the more dimples, the higher the ball flies),
When considering golf balls, we should mention the “compression” indicator. In simple words, compression is the level of deformation of the ball upon impact. Its conditional value varies from 0 (the ball is strongly deformed upon impact) to 200 (the ball is not deformed upon impact). Most balls have 80-100 compression (compress 2-3mm on impact).
According to the internal structure, the balls can consist of one, two, three or more layers-components. Due to their low cost, single-layer balls are ideal for training beginners.
Double layer balls consist of a hard core and a thin hard shell. They combine low cost, durability and range, making them suitable for most golfers.
Three-ply balls are wound with an elastic thread over an elastic or gel-like core. Such balls can be very tightly twisted, sometimes it is very beneficial for athletes.
squash
Squash is a single or doubles game with two rackets on a court surrounded on four sides by walls, while the ball is one and a half times smaller and softer than in tennis. According to legend, it appeared in the middle of the 19th century at the Harrow School in London, when students, waiting in line for a busy racket court, began to play with a softer ball on the court formed by the four walls of buildings. International Federation squash (WSF) has been fighting for the inclusion of this popular all over the world in the Olympic program for ten years. It should be noted that in recent years a lot has been done to increase the spectacle of this sport. In particular, glazed and illuminated courts convenient for spectators were created, the game is accompanied by music, and referees use video replays and the HawkEye system to resolve controversial issues in Game. However, in September, at the 125th session of the IOC, squash missed its chance to get to the Olympics, losing in the vote to the fight, shortly before that, for some reason, excluded from the number of Olympic sports.
Bandy
Bandy, also known as "Russian", will be among the so-called demonstration disciplines at the long-awaited Sochi Olympics. According to the practice that has developed over the past 100 years, the International Olympic Committee allows each host country to introduce one or two additional types, usually traditional or extremely popular among the local population. For prizes in such events, slightly smaller medals are given, which do not go into the overall standings. Demonstration types may well develop into full-fledged ones, as happened, for example, with taekwondo, which was first demonstrated at the Olympics in Seoul in 1988, and in 2000 in Sydney, already included in the program. It is doubtful, however, that bandy will remain on winter olympics after Sochi - primarily because of its low prevalence: only 14 teams are fighting for the title of world champions, while Russia or Sweden will certainly win.
With its rules, this sport is more like football: two halves of 45 minutes, 11 players, a football-sized field, only with ice, an offside position, free kicks and corner kicks. Which, however, is not surprising, because this sport, despite the name, took shape in the UK at the end of the century before last.
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Golf without release. Elite sport will be included in the program of thousands of schools in the next 5 years
Why suddenly golf, and not, for example, baseball, and will it be free? A supporter of this initiative is State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova. She claims that we are talking about mini-golf, and the equipment does not cost so much, but the benefits are great.
Golf will enter the program of thousands of schools in the next five years. The Russian Olympic Committee allocated 10 million rubles for these purposes. The money will be used to train teachers and purchase equipment. This was announced by the director of the Russian Golf Association Alexander Kochetkov.
One of the reasons for the inclusion of an "expensive and not for everyone" sport in the school curriculum is the return of golf to the Olympic disciplines. In the entire history of the Olympics, golf competitions were held only twice: in 1900 and 1904. After 112 years, he is back in the ranks and will be at the 16th Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The initiators of this refinement believe that golf is the only sport, except for chess, where there is physical activity, mental activity and there is no exemption from physical education, which is necessarily on the school schedule twice a week. This lesson will be the third, variable. One of the supporters of the appearance of golf in Russian schools is State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova, who in December last year put forward her candidacy for the post of head of the Russian Golf Association. She says that by and large it will be minigolf, and the cost of the equipment is not as great as the benefits of it.
Svetlana Zhurova, State Duma deputy: "Any room is enough, the same corridor in which these paths are laid out, where ball traps are set up, and only plastic special clubs are needed that are distributed to children and they play golf. There are no exempted from physical education, child with any physical data, he can easily study at such a physical education lesson, especially since this is a very serious development for the intellect. Now, all over the country, physical education teachers can simply take a training course. Our equipment costs about 23 thousand rubles. Therefore, everything is quite affordable. And then this is the choice of the physical education teacher himself, since this is a variable physical education lesson - the third, the teacher himself can choose this technique and teach it or not teach it.
According to the Ministry of Education and Science, the golf-based program is closely related to the content of the main part of the subject "Physical Education", as well as the content of school courses in biology, physics, history and social science. It has already been tested in a number of Russian regions, including schools in Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Samara and Novosibirsk regions. If this is free for schools, then everyone will agree, says the national teacher of Russia, director of Education Center No. 548 Efim Rachevsky.
“Golf is generally an intellectual game, you still have to think and count. I do not rule out that the appearance of golf at school will increase the craving for physics, because there you need to understand some gravitational things. It will increase cravings for some other subjects, but in no way will it replace traditional physical education. If someone suddenly decides to finance it, schools will be happy, of course. Traditional Lessons physical education will be diluted even with such exotic ones. Worse, I know it won't be for sure. And, apparently, it will be beneficial for those who are engaged in the production of equipment for this game, because I am sure that they are not widely sold in the Russian Federation.
Now golf as the third lesson of physical education is taught so far in 158 Russian schools. If we multiply the cost of equipment at 23,000 rubles by a thousand schools, we get 23 million rubles. 10 million Olympic Committee is clearly not enough. But the regional development department of the Russian Golf Association says the equipment for the new course could be bought with money from patrons or parents who think the sport is right for their children. In any case, the manufacturers of lanes and clubs will get their money. But whether a generation of world-class golfers will grow up in Russia is an unanswered question. We have been playing football for 100 years, the result is known.
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The Summer Olympics continues to "get fat" - the other day, the IOC included many new disciplines in the program of the 2020 Summer Games. Now we will need 18 sets of medals more than were awarded in Rio 2016.
This is problem - Summer Games already overloaded with events. Three hundred disciplines are mercilessly rammed into two short weeks - two dozen Olympic champions every day, top events overlapping each other, an insane number of simultaneous events that are unrealistic to keep track of.
But the IOC doesn't seem to care much - officials are adding weird new disciplines (baseball, skateboarding, rock climbing, surfing, BMX freestyle, a bunch of mixed competitions in different sports), but for some reason they don't dare to say goodbye to the old ones.
Which, there is a feeling, this Olympics is not really needed.
Perhaps the IOC should be more decisive not only when it comes to including new sports in the Olympic program. Parting with useless species must be no less decisive. And in what cases:
- if the Olympics for this sport is a second-rate tournament, to which neither top stars nor fans want to come;
- if the sport discredits the Olympics with endless scandals, revision of the final results and corruption schemes;
- if the sport is hopelessly outdated and not ready to change;
- if it is tritely unspectacular and uninteresting;
- if it's not really a sport at all.
Who are the main contenders to turn into Olympic pariahs?
Football
Male Olympic tournament- perhaps the most pointless event in the world football calendar (several times more pointless than the Confederations Cup). There are many reasons:
- the idiotic quota of three people over 23 years old per team discredits the Olympic idea - there are no age restrictions in any other sport at the Games;
- in the Olympic year, more status and rating tournaments are held (for example, in 2016 it was the European Championship and Copa America);
- inadequate qualification system - out of 16 participants, Europe has only 4 licenses, and South America has a total of one and a half. But three each for Asia, Africa and CONCACAF countries;
- FIFA, fearing competition with the IOC for popularity and sponsorship contracts, still does not include the Olympics in the official international calendar;
- taking advantage of this, clubs have the right not to release (and even block the call) to the Olympic teams already not the most top players - national federations need to negotiate with each player and his club separately.
Messi, Neymar, Eto'o - in the modern history of the Olympics, of course, there have been rare advents of football geniuses. But usually the symbolic team of stars who made it to the football tournament looks as dull as before Rio 2016:
The Olympics need football more than football needs the Olympics, and it is clear that the IOC will not abandon it, even if FIFA again bans professionals from coming to the Games (as it was before 1992). But the formality and fictitiousness of the tournament in its current form seems obvious even to IOC officials.
Weightlifting
Perhaps the most shameful discipline of the last Olympics. Just take a look at medal table in the weightlifting Games 2012 in London.
Crazy numbers - 14 winners of London took doping and must return the medals back.
In Beijing 2008, it was even worse - 17 out of 45 winners lifted the bar on doping. And just after those Games, positive tests surfaced in more than three dozen weightlifters.
We have yet to learn the truth about their samples from Rio 2016, but even without this, weightlifting deserved a harsh quarantine.
Tennis
The Olympics are crammed into the tight tennis calendar, where traditionally August is the time for prestigious tournaments in America. Not everyone makes the choice in favor of five rings.
But even those tennis players who reluctantly choose the Games to the detriment of earnings (during the Olympics, parallel tournaments with a solid prize fund are held), rating points (the ATP canceled their accrual for the Olympics) or recreation, see them as an exhibition or preparatory tournament that wormed its way between Wimbledon and US Open.
And it doesn't matter who wins: underdogs like the Chilean Nicolas Massu and Monica Puig from Puerto Rico or the top Williams sisters with Nadal and Murray - the title Olympic champion in their profile will never turn out to be a major achievement anyway.
Horseback Riding
Equestrian sports were watched at the ancient Olympics - then they competed in quadrigas and chariots, and not drivers, but wealthy horse owners, were recognized as champions.
Modern equestrian sport at the Olympics is dressage, show jumping and triathlon, but so far success in these disciplines (in show jumping, however, to a slightly lesser extent) depends on the preparation / training of horses, and not riders.
Here, for example, is how the first chapter of the dressage rules begins: “The purpose of dressage is the harmonious development of the physical abilities and abilities of the horse.”
Did you pay attention? Not a rider, but a horse! When grading, its general appearance, harmony and natural ability for elastic beautiful movements are taken into account - with about the same success in Olympic program there could be, for example, dog shows, circus performances with animals or cockroach races.
And it is also the only Olympic sport in which you can win the Olympics a year before your own 60th birthday (like the Briton Nick Skelton in Rio 2016) or quietly perform in the eighth decade (Hiroshi Hoketshu from Japan).
Golf
Another sport where the Olympics are treated with disdain is too pretentious and elitist golf next to all the others. In the two-week framework of the Olympiad, he is especially cramped and embarrassed - here they do not pay for the victory, as at the Masters (about $ 2 million), they do not award points to the world ranking and generally do not indulge in excessive attention.
Golf has not been at the Olympics for more than a century (the last time in 1904), but despite this, none of the top 5 ratings arrived at the 2016 Games. Yes, and from the top 50 in Rio, only a dozen and a half came, many of whom refused to live with everyone in the Olympic village, renting apartments in expensive hotels.
It is not clear why golf was brought back to the Games at all. Yes, he is indeed handsome, interesting and telegenic, but without the main stars, all this instantly loses its meaning. Except to look at slender golfers in revealing outfits - Maria Verchenova knows a lot about them.
Boxing
And not only female, with whom, probably, everything is clear.
But also male amateur boxing is dying. He became insanely boring, unspectacular and mired in corruption scandals up to his ears. An unequal fight with professional boxing was lost by knockout - rare stars from amateurs run to professionals at the first opportunity.
Continuous reforms of the vague refereeing system (which the IOC requires, threatening boxing with exclusion from the program) have not yet led to an improvement - and after Rio 2016 another one is started.
Even the only Russian gold of the last Olympics in boxing turned out to be so dubious that it provoked a global hype, and Evgeny Tishchenko himself was embarrassed at the award ceremony.
No, it is almost impossible to imagine the Olympic Games without boxing, but in its current strange form, this is one of the fattest blots of the entire program, which has not been possible to bring out for several Olympic cycles.
Sailing
It is easy to get confused in numerous sailing classes - almost fifty of them have been in the Olympic program throughout history. But still, sailing is, first of all, prestigious sailing regattas, the world Super Series, prestigious recreation, and only then the Olympic discipline.
You can, of course, try to distinguish the Finn class from the Star class, or you can ask a more ambitious question: what, apart from Olympic traditions, is the fundamental difference between yachts, say, Formula 1 cars? After all, technology in sailing(even despite the division into classes) have not been inferior to automobiles for a long time.
And why was the presence of yachtsmen at the Games not questioned at any of the IOC congresses, and why does the IOC still shy away from everything related to motors?
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