SPORT IN OUR SCHOOLS

THE MOST POPULAR SPORTS IN RUSSIA

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    Sport is very popular in Russia. More than 30 million people go to sport centers. There are a lot of different sports that are very popular in Russia. One of them is football. According to official figures, nearly 5 million people go in for it. Almost each town has its own football team. Ice hockey is one of the most popular among winter sports. Russian players have been taking part in world championships since 1954 have won the world title on many occasions. In 1988 we celebrated the hundredth anniversary of athletics. Track and field events are participated by 7,5 million people now. Russian sportsmen are the European, World and Olympic records holders in different disciplines. Other popular team games are basketball and volleyball. More than 6 World Champions titles for many times. Less people play basketball (4,2 million). Soviet players first took part in Olympic contests at the 1952 Games in Helsinki. Since then they have been among the Olympic prize winners for several times.

SPORT IN OUR SCHOOL.

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   Sport is paid much attention to in our educational establishments. Gymnastics is a part of children’s daily activities in the kindergartens. Physical culture is a compulsory subject at schools and colleges.

Different sports and games are popular with our children. A lot of them go in for different kinds of sports such as football, boxing,

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ice-hockey, wrestling, basket-ball, volley-ball, etc. We have fine teams at our school and different kinds of competitions take place there. The boys of our school are crazy about football. They play football and the girls are football fans. The girls never miss a single match played by school teams.


Our Physical Training Lessons. 

And now a few words about our physical 1111training lessons. 

In winter our physical training lessons are held indoors, in our school gymnasium. We play different team games such as basket-ball or volley-ball. Besides we have some training in gymnastics.

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In autumn and in spring, when the weather is warm we have Physical Training Lessons at our school stadium.

My school has a sports day once a year in late spring. On this day we have no lessons. All the competitors change into their sports clothes, the spectators find their seats round the track ready to cheer. 

All the events take place at the same time. This day is a great success every year. Even if the weather is not warm, we enjoy ourselves just the same.