Download your sheets by clicking here.
Choose a sheet you will use.
During the Opening Ceremony tick off each buzzword when it is said by a commentator or particpant.
You could have a drink penalty for each word too.
The winner is the first to tick off everything on their sheet.
Make sure you use the hash tag: #OlympicBuzzwordBingo
http://www.4shared.com/office/VIIMyWZT/OlympicBuzzwordBingo.html
Thanks to Tracy Steadman (@lou_lou1972) for the suggestion to do this!
Showing posts with label olympic games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olympic games. Show all posts
Friday, 27 July 2012
Friday, 6 July 2012
Bolt - a fanfare for orchestra
A fanfare for orchestra inspired by the celebrations of the Oympics and, more specifically, the sprinter Usain Bolt!
If you're interested in performing the piece, the score and parts can be downloaded from: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/126303.html
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If you're interested in performing the piece, the score and parts can be downloaded from: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/126303.html
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www.robertsteadman.com
Score Exchange
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
It's time to remove nationality from the Olympics
The case of Aaron Cook is just bizarre. Cook is the World No. 1 at under 80kg Taekwondo and yet he hasn't been selected by the British Taekwondo selectors to represent Great Britain at next month's Olympics. He says one thing, they say another and it's made all the more complicated by the fact there seem to be about 10 organisations who each claim to be the national body for Taekwondo.
To me it makes no sense that competitors are chosen by national bodies. The Olympics should be about the best and having no-hopers from nations that, similarly, have no hope in some events belittles the events. Remember Edfie the Eagle? And Eric the Eel? Amusing maybe but do they reflect the Olympic ideal? How do such no-hopers live up to the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius - Faster, Higher, Stronger NOT funnier, excruciating and more embarrassing.
Surely selection for events should be simple - the world's top 100 (or however many they need for a specific event) regardless of nationality. Sure, that might mean that some events are dominated by a couple of nationalities. So what? If the starting line up for the marathon had 50 Kenyans, 50 Ethiopians and no osu else what would it matter if those 100 were the best 100 marathon runners in the world? If the starters in the 100m were all either Jamaican and American what would it matter? Don't we want all the best athletes competing against each other?
And, any way, in individual sports (and even in pairs, fours and eights) why should nationality have any relevance? I know the morons who get jingoistic about such matters get all emotional about "winning gold for Britain" but why? They are winning for themselves, not for anything else. They are winning so that they can get their sponsorship deals and appearance fees over the next few years.
Even in team sports it would surely be better to have teams that regularly played together instead of teams brought together for two weeks every four years? Why not have the Olympuc football tournament competed by teams like Barcelona and Manchester United instead of the nonsense we're about to see Stuart Pearce oversee? How about the basketball and ice hockey being between the best teams not just teams thrust together by accident of birth (or grandparents' births)?
Nationalism is such a crock of nonsense. A random geographical position of a woman giving birth within artificial and random borders. Why does anyone feel pride in a nation? It's just bollocks.
I fear the forthcoming Olympics will be, as the recent idiotic Jubilee was, a chance for the right wing press to fuel xenophobia and encourage the proles to continue supporting anachronistic systems and a 19th century world view.
Nationalism has no place in the modern world. It is the fuel for hate. The Olympics needs to be above such nonsense. It is time to drop national committees. It is the for a new internationalist approach to the world and I see no reason why that can't start with sport.
To me it makes no sense that competitors are chosen by national bodies. The Olympics should be about the best and having no-hopers from nations that, similarly, have no hope in some events belittles the events. Remember Edfie the Eagle? And Eric the Eel? Amusing maybe but do they reflect the Olympic ideal? How do such no-hopers live up to the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius - Faster, Higher, Stronger NOT funnier, excruciating and more embarrassing.
Surely selection for events should be simple - the world's top 100 (or however many they need for a specific event) regardless of nationality. Sure, that might mean that some events are dominated by a couple of nationalities. So what? If the starting line up for the marathon had 50 Kenyans, 50 Ethiopians and no osu else what would it matter if those 100 were the best 100 marathon runners in the world? If the starters in the 100m were all either Jamaican and American what would it matter? Don't we want all the best athletes competing against each other?
And, any way, in individual sports (and even in pairs, fours and eights) why should nationality have any relevance? I know the morons who get jingoistic about such matters get all emotional about "winning gold for Britain" but why? They are winning for themselves, not for anything else. They are winning so that they can get their sponsorship deals and appearance fees over the next few years.
Even in team sports it would surely be better to have teams that regularly played together instead of teams brought together for two weeks every four years? Why not have the Olympuc football tournament competed by teams like Barcelona and Manchester United instead of the nonsense we're about to see Stuart Pearce oversee? How about the basketball and ice hockey being between the best teams not just teams thrust together by accident of birth (or grandparents' births)?
Nationalism is such a crock of nonsense. A random geographical position of a woman giving birth within artificial and random borders. Why does anyone feel pride in a nation? It's just bollocks.
I fear the forthcoming Olympics will be, as the recent idiotic Jubilee was, a chance for the right wing press to fuel xenophobia and encourage the proles to continue supporting anachronistic systems and a 19th century world view.
Nationalism has no place in the modern world. It is the fuel for hate. The Olympics needs to be above such nonsense. It is time to drop national committees. It is the for a new internationalist approach to the world and I see no reason why that can't start with sport.
Monday, 30 April 2012
BBC Olympic torch trailer
There will be cynics who don't like it, who aren't behind the build up to the Olympic Games, but I think this BBC Olympic torch trailer, with it's tease of the specially commissioned Elbow track that will be used as their Olympic coverage theme tune, is genuinely inspiring.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Saturday, 3 December 2011
OPINION: Merging the Olympics and Paralympics
SCOPE, the charity for people with Cerebral Palsy, has called for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to be merged. The logic is that it will improve the status of the disabled in society as awhile, improve the way that disabled sport is viewed, and stop people looking down on the Paralympics as they may currently do.
All well and good, maybe.
The problem comes in the practicalities of merging these two quite separate events.
In reality, the media coverage would still, in all likelihood, focus on the able-bodied sportsmen and women who will be running faster, jumping higher and setting records that the vast majority of paralympians can never ever dream of achieving.
Oskar Pistorias, the "Blade Runner", is actually being allowed to compete in the Olympics against able-bodied athletes - maybe that's a way ahead? Or will the advantages/disadvantages of special equipment simply nullify the sports?
The next problem comes with how to merge the events - the Paralympics has man more events than the Olympics because it has different "classes" for each slight variation in disability. This means that, if all events are maintained, a joint Olympic/Paralympic medal table would be heavily weighted in favour of the countries with more disabled athletes competing. So the disabled community, a small minority of society, would occupy the majority of medals - that is, surely, a nonsense?
It would, of course, be totally unacceptable to everyone for a Paralympic Gold to only be worth, say, a tenth of an Olympic gold, so that problem is insurmountable.
The next problem comes with the staging of the combined games - having all the facilities available at the same time for both events and the time to do it. The combined Games would, I suspect, end up running to a month or more - unless a swathe of events were scrapped - and I thought the point of this was inclusion and acceptance?
I guess SCOPE are generating publicity for their cause by linking themselves to the Olympic Games but there suggestion, perfectly good on the surface, doesn't hold up to close scrutiny and, in fact, might end up doing disabled athletes a dis-service in the long run.
All well and good, maybe.
The problem comes in the practicalities of merging these two quite separate events.
In reality, the media coverage would still, in all likelihood, focus on the able-bodied sportsmen and women who will be running faster, jumping higher and setting records that the vast majority of paralympians can never ever dream of achieving.
Oskar Pistorias, the "Blade Runner", is actually being allowed to compete in the Olympics against able-bodied athletes - maybe that's a way ahead? Or will the advantages/disadvantages of special equipment simply nullify the sports?
The next problem comes with how to merge the events - the Paralympics has man more events than the Olympics because it has different "classes" for each slight variation in disability. This means that, if all events are maintained, a joint Olympic/Paralympic medal table would be heavily weighted in favour of the countries with more disabled athletes competing. So the disabled community, a small minority of society, would occupy the majority of medals - that is, surely, a nonsense?
It would, of course, be totally unacceptable to everyone for a Paralympic Gold to only be worth, say, a tenth of an Olympic gold, so that problem is insurmountable.
The next problem comes with the staging of the combined games - having all the facilities available at the same time for both events and the time to do it. The combined Games would, I suspect, end up running to a month or more - unless a swathe of events were scrapped - and I thought the point of this was inclusion and acceptance?
I guess SCOPE are generating publicity for their cause by linking themselves to the Olympic Games but there suggestion, perfectly good on the surface, doesn't hold up to close scrutiny and, in fact, might end up doing disabled athletes a dis-service in the long run.
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