Have you been following the Olympic games? Honestly, I haven't, not too much. But every time when I turn on the TV, somebody is jumping on my screen: to the water, over a bar (sometimes with a long stick), to a sandbox, off the balance beam etc.
In Ancient Greece, the areas, where men were competing in, where closely related to the skills people actually needed, like running, throwing a speer or a rock, and yes, also jumping a bit over 1 meter high obstacles. But nowadays, the jumping is like a…
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Posted on August 19, 2008 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment