"It's hard to beat the person who never gives up."
Babe Ruth, Major League Baseball Player "If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail."
Mark Spitz, Olympic Swimmer "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."
Founder of the Olympic International Committee, Baron Pierre de Coubertin
INTRODUCTION
The 'Tokyo Olympic Games 2021' start on 23rd July and it is ‘I Am Team GB Day’ on 14th August, so this week's CST ativities page is 'Summer Of Sport'.
After orientation, we went around the room and asked members: - What are their favourite sports? - Have they a favourite sporting hero or team? - Have they ever met any famous sports personality? Next we listed on the white board some ... Individual sports: - Diving - Javelin - High jump - Pole vaulting - Marathon - Gymnastics - Wrestling - Boxing - Cycling - Tennis Group sports: - Football - Rugby - Hockey - Volleyball - Relay - Basketball - Baseball - Cricket - Synchronised swimming - Netball Winter sports: - Bobsleigh - Slalom - Curling - Ice dancing - Speed skating - Ski jumping - Skeleton - Ice hockey - Snowboarding - Cross country skiing School sports: - Egg and spoon race - Sack race - One legged race - Aparatus - Rope - Tug O' War - Assault course - Climbing wall - Sponsored walk - Pony trekking We then asked, has anyone won any sporting medals or prizes? - Swimming medals - Life saving - Scouts or Brownies - Half Marathon - Duke Of Edinburgh
We then discussed which sports people most enjoyed and if anyone played sports competitively during their lifetime.
My good friend and colleague Karen Warlow, Medical Secretary for our local Young Onset Dementia Service, reminded me that individual sporting accomplishments can be a big part of a person's life. Here is a recent photo of her completing the 100km '2021 Race To The Stones'. Here's what she says about her running.
"Through running I've discovered places, trails and lifelong friends that I never would have! I love each separate challenge, long or short, flat or hilly. It's now become part of my daily routine - RED (running each day) since November 2020 ❤️"
IDIOMS
Complete these well known phrases together ...
(Maybe just use a few of these)
Unfair ADVANTAGE
Take your eye off the BALL
Cover all your BASES
Hand someone the BATON / TORCH
Saved by the BELL
Hit someone below the BELT
Too close to CALL
In with a fighting CHANCE
A game CHANGER
Out for the COUNT
Par for the COURSE
The ball's in your COURT
Out of your DEPTH
Go the full DISTANCE
Slam DUNK
Hit the bull's EYE
Level playing FIELD
Dive in head FIRST
Stay ahead of the GAME
On your marks, get set GO
Score an own GOAL
Jump the GUN
Back the wrong HORSE / TEAM
Fall at the first HURDLE
Hop skip and a JUMP
Out of their LEAGUE
Watch from the side LINES
Meet your MATCH
Hit the back of the NET
Win by a NOSE
We have kick OFF
Hole in ONE
It's a knock OUT
Three strikes and you're OUT
Set the PACE
Knock it out of the PARK
Step up to the PLATE
Have a game PLAN
Jockey for POSITION
First past the POST
Get the ball ROLLING
Play by the RULES
Hit a home RUN
Hit the ground RUNNING
Take the wind of of your SAILS
Final SCORE
Batting for the other SIDE / TEAM
Give it your best SHOT
Be a good SPORT
On the home STRETCH
Sink or SWIM
Half TIME
Throw in the TOWEL
Score a hat TRICK
Punch above your WEIGHT
Sticky WICKET
Down to the WIRE
ROUND 1. Crimes & Misdemeanours
1. Who said in 1981, "You cannot be serious?", during his first round Wimbledon match with Tom Gullikson?
2. Who tripped up who in the 3000m final in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics?
3. Who had a 'Hand Of God' moment in the 1986 FIFA World Cup quarter final match between Argentina and England?
4. Which former champion jockey went to prison for 3 years in 1987 for tax evasion?
5. Which Northern Irish football player, who died in 2005, said of his career: "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds [women] and fast cars – the rest I just squandered".
6. Which American football player was sent to prison for 33 years in 2008 for murdering his ex-wife and her partner?
7. Which golfing champion was dropped from advertising Gillette products in 2010 because of his admission of a string of affairs?
8. Which horse racing pundit infamously picked his nose on live TV in 'Big Brother' in 2010?
9. Which 'Bladerunner' is in prison after being found guilty of killing his girlfrien