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Manchester United's and England's Jesse Lingard sets a challenge with a 40 minute work-out with three rounds of exercises covering cardio, core and overall strength.
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For PE at home, let US Gymnast Katelyn Ohashi show take you through a handstand routine you can do during lockdown!
See via the BBC at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/gymnastics/52433308 On this day, April 26th 1918, Olympic athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen was born in the Netherlands.
Fanny became the first female athlete to win 4 Olympic Gold medals in a single Olympic Games at the 1948 Olympics in London - being the most successful athlete at the event. Gold - 100m Gold - 200m Gold - 80m Hurdles Gold - 4 X 100m relay Twice she almost failed to start, prior to the 200m final she broke down, homesickness, pressure of competing, and attacks that as a woman and mother that she shouldn't be competing. Whilst, before the relay she had gone to buy a raincoat, only just making the start. At the time she was 30 years old, mother of two, and it was revealed after the event she was also pregnant. She had also participated in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Although, Fanny specialised in track events at the Olympics due to restrictions as to how many events she could enter, she also particpated in the long jump and high jump, setting world records in these as well! The media nicknamed her 'The Flying Housewife', 'The Flying Dutchmam' and 'Amazing Fanny'. In 1999 the IAAF voted her the 'Female Athlete of the Century'. On This Day the Greatest Cricket Batsman ever was born... ...Happy Birthday, Sachin Tendulkar!4/24/2020 On this day, April 24th 1973, Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was born.
Tendulkar played as a batsman for India, participating in the side that won the World Cup in 2011, He is the only player to have scored 100 centuries in Internaatsman tional cricket, and has the greatest tally or runs in International cricket of all time. He is arguably the greatest batsman of all time, a view that is debated in comparison to the great Australian batsman, Don Bradman, for Test Cricket and Viv Richards the West Indian batsman in One Day Internationals. In 2013 Wisden's Cricketer Almanack, 250th edition, picked him as the only Indian in its World Test XI. Tendulkar was nicknamed the 'Master Blaster'. |
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