Denk het ook welquote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 12:19 schreef Leatherface het volgende:
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Ik vermoed dat alle discutabele landen nu wel zo'n beetje zijn besproken.
Yep!quote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 12:19 schreef DeLuna het volgende:
Erg leuk topic, ook eens een keer andere landen in de aandacht dan alleen de grootmachten.
"Faster, higher, stronger (The Olympic motto)"quote:(Reuters) - There is not a woman in Kyrgyzstan who can live with Aisuluu Tynybekova on the wrestling mat. Her sparring partners are all male, and at least 10 kg heavier than the Central Asian nation's best hope of a medal at the London Olympics.
It's a familiar story for the 19-year-old economics student. Growing up in her remote mountain village, Tynybekova helped out on the family farm and played basketball with the boys. Her mother, a paediatrician, forbade her from practising karate.
"It wasn't accepted in the village. There weren't any sports lessons for girls," she says. "I was in the ninth grade (about 15 years old) when I discovered that girls also wrestled."
Tynybekova was studying in Bishkek, capital of the former Soviet republic, when she was discovered by the former wrestler who is training her for the 2012 Olympic Games.
"I met Aisuluu in the university wrestling hall," said her coach, Nurbek Izabekov. "I noticed this energetic, pig-tailed girl from the countryside and it was clear to me that she wasn't wrestling for the first time.
"I saw a savvy, hard-working girl with a huge desire for success."
Twice a week, Tynybekova takes to the mountains of the Alamedin gorge outside Bishkek, running 10 km through valleys of wild rose bushes more than 1,500 metres above sea level. She drinks kumys, fermented mare's milk, for inner strength.
She sleeps after lunch, before lifting weights in the evening and sparring in the wrestling hall a stone's throw from the apartment she rents on the edge of Bishkek.
In London, she will compete in the 63kg freestyle category. She trains with men in the 74kg weight category.
"I train with the men because it's tougher," she says. "They are on a different level and I need this for my development. In my weight category, I don't have a sparring partner in Kyrgyzstan."
Tynybekova is painfully shy, often avoiding eye contact. She wears a tracksuit top with fluorescent green sleeves, emblazoned with the logo of the 2008 Wrestling World Championship in Tokyo.
"Who wouldn't want to visit London? But we are not tourists. We are going there with the goal of winning a medal," she said.
"I have dreamed since childhood of appearing on television, of how I would stand among athletes on the pedestal, with a medal around my neck."
COACH'S AMBITION
Tynybekova is not the first famous wrestler in her family. Her maternal grandfather, Akylbek Sulaimanov, was a celebrated practitioner of kuresh, a traditional Central Asian form of wrestling using a belt or girdle to fell an opponent.
Tynybekova's parents moved to the Naryn region of central Kyrgyzstan a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Her father, a doctor in Soviet times, returned to his home village to become a farmer.
"We have our own horses. That's where I go in the summer, to relax. I drink kumys and cow's milk on the mountain pastures," she says. "I've even milked the cows myself."
She studies the Koran and prays daily. At school, she was inspired by stories of Kurmanjan Datka, a 19th-century Kyrgyz stateswoman who ruled swathes of the southern Alai region and appears today on the country's 50 som ($1) note.
Her ambition is matched only by that of her coach, Izabekov. After placing second in Soviet championships, he says he too would have represented Kyrgyzstan in the Olympics had the newly independent country been able to afford to send him.
"I wanted to be a champion, but it didn't work out. My career coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union," he said. "There was chaos, no money for sport."
Twenty-one years after independence, Kyrgyzstan is still an impoverished nation with an economy that relies on production from a single gold mine and remittances from migrant workers.
But Izabekov says the situation has improved. The last three years has seen more state financing for sporting facilities.
"My ambition now, as a coach, is to prepare an Olympic champion to fight for a medal," he said.
One day soon, Tynybekova may also have competition among the women of Kyrgyzstan.
"I've taken another three prospective girls under my wing," said Izabekov. "There is talent here and we will work with it."
Tof, ik koos het in een opwelling enkel alleen maar vanwege Eugen Wacker. Kom ik er 2 seconden later achter dat hij niet meedoetquote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 12:30 schreef Leatherface het volgende:
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Davaaiii moi brat.
Kirgizië was mijn supporterland van 2010.
Fonetisch klinkt dit toch beter?quote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 12:28 schreef Leatherface het volgende:
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Moet dat niet gewoon participar zijn? Mijn Spaans is niet meer wat het was...
Het enige discutabele land waar ik nog aan twijfel is Iran. 53 deelnemers en ze winnen toch regelmatig medailles met gewichtheffen, worstelen, judo en taekwondo. Vrijgeven of reservelijst?quote:
Reservelijst lijkt me prima.quote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 13:03 schreef Leatherface het volgende:
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Het enige discutabele land waar ik nog aan twijfel is Iran. 53 deelnemers en ze winnen toch regelmatig medailles met gewichtheffen, worstelen, judo en taekwondo. Vrijgeven of reservelijst?
Maar dat maakt ze toch juist exotisch. Op sportgebied hebben ze verder weinig in de melk te brokkelen.quote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 13:34 schreef Vork het volgende:
Het is niet dat ze verder niets afvaardigen. Maar bijv. Noord-Korea stuurt 51 sporters. Dat klinkt veel, maar daarvan zijn er al 18 voetbalsters. Dat is een team, discipline en een medaillekans (hoewel, ik van dat laatste niet heel erg overtuigd ben). Of Montenegro, 34 sporters, waarvan 13 waterpoloërs en 15 handbalsters. Dan blijft er niet erg veel meer over
Zeker, maar op die manier kan een land met relatief veel deelnemers dus evengoed nog wel een exoot zijnquote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 13:35 schreef Leatherface het volgende:
Maar dat maakt ze toch juist exotisch. Op sportgebied hebben ze verder weinig in de melk te brokkelen.
Ja, dat is ook zo.quote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 13:37 schreef Vork het volgende:
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Zeker, maar op die manier kan een land met relatief veel deelnemers dus evengoed nog wel een exoot zijn
23 deelnemers, dus dat mag gewoon lijkt mequote:Op maandag 23 juli 2012 09:24 schreef PaRoDiUzZ het volgende:
Mogen de Bahamas, of zijn die niet obscuur genoeg?
Ik wil eigenlijk geen West-Europese landen. Ministaatjes als Andorra, San Marino en Liechtenstein vallen daarom af.quote:Op maandag 23 juli 2012 11:47 schreef PaRoDiUzZ het volgende:
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Anders had ik andorra geclaimed vanwege die bazensnor van die geweerschieter.
Even gezocht, die vent was er in Montreal '76 al bijquote:Op maandag 23 juli 2012 11:47 schreef PaRoDiUzZ het volgende:
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Anders had ik andorra geclaimed vanwege die bazensnor van die geweerschieter.
Dat zijn zeker qua sport toch juist mega-exotische landen?quote:Op maandag 23 juli 2012 11:49 schreef Leatherface het volgende:
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Ik wil eigenlijk geen West-Europese landen. Ministaatjes als Andorra, San Marino en Liechtenstein vallen daarom af.
Even nog wat Bhutan promotie ;quote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 08:15 schreef TLC het volgende:
Afgezien van de landlozen ben ik voor Bhutan![]()
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Sherab Zam bij het boogschieten en Kunzang Choden bij het schieten doen namens Bhutan mee![]()
Boogschieten is daar in het bergstaatje wel enorm populair
Mooi dan ga ik even op onderzoek uitquote:
ik ook, omdat dit team op de been wordt gehouden door ontwikkelingssteun vanuit o.a. Australie en Nieuw-Zeeland en ik indirekt aan mee betaalquote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 00:05 schreef DeLuna het volgende:
Ik ben voor Tuvalu
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nog zo'n eentjequote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 00:13 schreef sportfreak het volgende:
Kiribati mag op mijn steun rekenen de komende weken
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Ze worden in Londen vertegenwoordigd door drie atleten, 100 meter lopers Nooa Takooa(mannen) en Kaingaue David (vrouwen) en gewichtheffer David Katoatau, die uitkomt in de klasse tot 94 kilogram.
Die laatste was er vier jaar geleden in Peking ook al bij. Hij droeg toen de vlag en werd netjes vijftiende
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quote:Op zondag 22 juli 2012 08:15 schreef TLC het volgende:
Nederland heeft 4 keer zoveel inwoners dan Nieuw-Zeeland maar toch hebben zij meer sporters afgevaardigd naar Londen![]()
en zo zijn er wel meer landen, ook bij de kleine einlandstaatjes in de Stille Zuidzee woont het merendeel van atleten in of Australie of Nieuw-Zeelandquote:PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Four of Haiti’s five Olympians at the London Games have something in common – they’re not from Haiti.
With millions of Haitians living on $2 a day or less and hundreds of thousands of people rendered homeless by a devastating earthquake two years ago, the country struggles to produce world-class athletes. But those with Haitian links are still eager to represent the small Caribbean country.
“I still feel Haitian even if I wasn’t born there,” 21-year-old sprinter Marlena Wesh said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Wesh, who will run in the 200 and 400-metre races at the Olympics, grew up in Virginia and is a senior at Clemson University. Her parents are from Haiti.
Besides having family ties to Haiti, the four foreign-born Olympians will be competing in track and field, including the former college roommate of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Samyr Laine, a 28-year-old triple jumper, is from New York and roomed with Zuckerberg at Harvard. He was the 14th person to sign up for Zuckerbergs social networking site.
Laine recently graduated from Georgetown Law School but hopes to use the attention generated by the Olympics to form a nonprofit group called the Jump for Haiti Foundation, a sports program that would try to produce future Olympic athletes from the country through camps and clinics. The goal is to have future teams made up of athletes who were born and raised in Haiti.
Laine said he plans to call on his friends, including his roommate-turned-billionaire, to donate a few dollars.
I hope they see the merits of my cause, Laine said. I will definitely try to reach out to Mark as well.
Moise Joseph, a 30-year-old 800-meter runner, and Jeffrey Julmis, a 28-year-old 100-meter hurdler, are also in the team. Haitis lone homegrown Olympian is Linouse Desravine, a 21-year-old judoka.
Theres nothing unusual about athletes from multiethnic nations like the United States or Britain representing other countries. But what may be surprising to some is that Haiti, which seems to lurch from one calamity to another, is being represented in London at all.
The country does pose unusual challenges for athletes. Three of the countrys five competitive running tracks are home to thousands of people in tents and shanties who were displaced by the January 2010 earthquake. The office of the Haitian Olympic Committee overlooks a hillside shantytown and has a budget of only $400,000. The U.S. Olympic Committees budget is about $170 million.
Our daily struggle in the Olympic committee here is finding funds, said Alain Jean-Pierre, the bodys secretary general.
Haiti first competed at the 1900 Paris Olympics, and won its first medal in the same city at the 1924 Games when it took bronze in the team rifle competition.
The countrys only individual medal was a silver won by Silvio Cator in the mens long jump at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. Cator today is remembered with pride and the national stadium in downtown Port-au-Prince is named after him.
Another notable Olympian from Haiti was marathon runner Dieudonne Lamothe, the first from his country to compete in four Olympics.
More medals in London will be tough.
I dont think so but I think well have two athletes in the finals, Jean-Pierre said.
Frederic Charles, a 29-year-old computer technician and the half brother of Olympic runner Joseph, will be among those watching and waiting for Haiti to succeed.
Charles once lived in one of the hundred displacement camps but recently moved into a studio in Port-au-Prince. Above a collection of old desktop computers, the four walls bear posters of a uniform-wearing Joseph sprinting in races.
Hes running for Haiti, Charles said, so that someone can think about Haiti.
waarom niet? in mijn ogen niet echt een 'sport power house'quote:
Santosquote:
dan doe ik IJslandquote:Op dinsdag 24 juli 2012 08:55 schreef rechtsedirecte het volgende:
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waarom niet? in mijn ogen niet echt een 'sport power house'
?quote:eaten by a cake
quote:Mensen van Tsjaad, rijs op en neem je taak op!
Je hebt het land overwonnen en je rechten gewonnen;
Je vrijheid zal ontstaan door je moed.
Sla je ogen op, de toekomst is aan jullie.
Oh, mijn Land, moge God je behoede,
Moge je buren je kinderen bewonderen.
Vreugdevol, vredevol, ga voort terwijl je zingt,
Vertrouwend op de vaders die naar je kijken.
Ah ja klopt. Zat door verschillende tabs te bladeren, waardoor ik dus even niet goed keekquote:
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