Worksheets

The sport of rowing involves pushing a boat through water using an oar/oars. Rowing has a long history. Competitions were already taking place in Ancient Egypt and Greece. Rowing became a Paralympic sport for the first time in Beijing 2008. Have you ever seen a Paralympic Rowing event?

Goalball was developed as an activity to help soldiers who suffered eye injuries in the Second World War. Since then it has spread around the world. It is now played in more than 100 countries. It is played by teams of three visually impaired athletes who try to score by rolling the ball into the other team’s goal. The ball has bells inside so that the players can hear it. Have you ever seen a game of Goalball?

Handball was developed in Denmark, Sweden and Germany in the late 19th century. It is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team. It is a thrilling sport to watch, sometimes with more than fifty goals in a single match. Have you ever seen a handball match? Have you ever played in one? Would you like to?

Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in the world, and 5000 year old cave paintings of wrestlers have been found. It was included in the ancient Olympics and was considered so historically significant that it became a focus of the modern Olympics when they were organised in Athens in 1896. Have you ever tried wrestling or seen a bout? If not, would you like to?

The Olympic motto ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’ (‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’) was proposed by the founder of the modern Olympics Pierre de Coubertin. Perhaps he was thinking of athletics. Have you ever thrown a javelin, discus, shot or hammer? Have you ever tried the long, triple or high jumps, or even the pole vault? Do you know the difference between the decathlon and the heptathlon? Find out about these and more.

What do you know about badminton - past and present? Did you know it was started in a place called 'Badminton' in the UK? Learn the rules and lots of badminton vocabulary.