Sports in my life

Sport is very important in our life. It is popular among young and old people. Many people do morning exercises, make jogging in the morning and train themselves in clubs and different sections and take part in sport competitions. Others like sports too, but they only watch sport games on TV or at the stadiums, listen to sport news. The prefer reading stories about sportsmen. But they don't go in for sports themselves.

There are lots of popular kinds of sports in our country: wrestling, football, hockey, gymnastics, skiing, skating, biathlon, figure skating. As for me, my favourite sport is swimming. Swimming competitions are held all the year round as there are many modern swimming pools in our country. Competitions are always very exciting. Our swimmers are the strongest in the world. Russian swimmers get lots of Olympic medals.

There are 4 styles of swimming: breast-stroke, back-stroke, freestyle and butterfly. The last two are the most beautiful and the quickest ones.

This kind of sports is included into the Olympic Games which have a very long history. The tradition began more than 2000 years ago in Greece. All the cities sent their best athletes to the city of Olympus to compete in the games. During the Olympic Games all wars between cities and countries stopped and the people lived in peace. Now these games take place every four years. The Olympic Games Committee makes decision of the place of the Olympic Games to be held and sports that the athletes will compete in.

You know, I have a sport idol. I'm talking about Jan Thorpe, a famous Australian swimmer. Though he is only 20 now, he has already become an Olympic champion eight times. He is well built and seems vigorous- He demonstrates strong will.

I had been going in for fin-swimming for fifteen years. As for me, I have some results too. I became a champion of Europe in 1994 and a prize-winner of Russia in 1997.1 have a standard of master of sports, which had been achieved by everyday trainings for this period. Taking part in different competitions I visited a lot of cities of our country and abroad.

Sports generally helps people to keep fit, to be healthy all the year. Thinking about character sport makes a man determined and helps everybody in demonstrating his will and energy. Every one who goes in for sport is a rational person and always knows what he wants. Going in for sports helps us to organize our day, that is very important in our progressing epoch.