A history of sports

Football tackles cause damage to the player's brain. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Football tackles cause severe damage to the area of ​​the brain essential for cognition

A new imaging technique developed at Columbia University has identified areas of the cerebral cortex – just behind the forehead – that are most severely damaged by repeated impacts from hitting a ball, a well-known phenomenon in hitters.
Sports in ancient Greece. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Sorrow on the one hand and joy on the other in all Greek physical activity

I will seek to find the causal connection between "grief", "agony" and ancient Greek agonistics. In the list discussed, I will seek to present the historical, ethnological, social, linguistic, conceptual and comparative side in the sporting context between a linguistic box that appears
The amphitheater in Caesarea. From Wikipedia

Distribution of prizes for second and third place in the Olympics - Herod's idea

Over the course of hundreds of years, a wreath of olive leaves was given only to the winners of the Olympic sports, who also received considerable funding from the cities that represented, until about a decade before the end of the first century BC King Herod held games
Tokyo Olympics 2020. Illustration: depositphotos.com

No records were broken at the Olympics in the ancient era

In the thousand years of the existence of the Olympic Games in antiquity, each competition stood on its own and the winner of it received honor and a lot of money from the polis from which it came, and not because of the lack of technical means to measure times or any
The Olympic flag during the Vancouver Winter Games, 2010. From Wikipedia

Olympics: the story of five rings

Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things donors know: who needs medals?

Gal sends a doubt, a question, a regret about the lack of our government's hand "Why do we have so few Olympic medals? Why don't we invest more in sports to give us national pride?"
The raising of the Olympic flag at the Reno Olympics, 2016. Photo: flickr.

In the name of the sunset of the nostalgic, romantic past

Female figures competing in the Olympic Games in ancient Greece on an ancient urn. Photo: Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

Gendered Paralympic Games

A painting depicting Herod. From Wikipedia

Olympic games and Jews in the ancient era

The chain of evolution from monkey to man. Nice but not that accurate. From Wikipedia

Towards the Olympics: The Evolutionary Origins of Sport

Sports in ancient times. Illustration: shutterstock

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 30 - the end of the series

Ballet dancer. Illustration: shutterstock

The Muscle Song MH - a dance lesson

Amateur swimmers in the sea. Photo: shutterstock

The muscle song MH: Bathing and swimming

Tennis doubles match. Photo: shutterstock

The Muscle Song MD: What's up with the Jews and tennis? (Tuesday)

Different ball games. Illustration: shutterstock

The Muscle Song MG: Ball games from France to Spain (B)

football. Illustration: Fernhofer Institute

The Muscle Song MB: Ball games from France to Spain (B)

Jumping for joy. Illustration: shutterstock

The Muscle Song Chapter M Jumping and having fun

running. Illustration: shutterstock

The Song of the Muscles 68 - Running among the Jews of the Middle Ages

wrestling Illustration: shutterstock

The Song of the Muscles 37: Wrestling in Jewish Literature in the Middle Ages

A participant dressed as a swordsman at a medieval festival in Kiev, Ukraine. Sergey Kamshylin / Shutterstock.com

The Song of the Muscles 35 - Fencing

Investigating the use of drugs in sports. Illustration: shutterstock

Genetic engineering - dope genes and how is it related to the Tour de France?

Knight fights with swords Tricia Daniel / Shutterstock.com

The Song of the Muscles Chapter XNUMX: Touching Riding

The Muscles' Song LB - Toil for all

Rambam's alleged portrait. From Wikipedia

The Song of the Muscles LA: The relationship to the human body

Duel of knights, Combat de chevaliers dans la campagne, painting from 1825 by Agen Delacroix.

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 4 - And where are the Jews?

female dancers A painting on an urn originating in ancient Greece

The 24th muscle song - dancing with virgins

The Roman bathhouse in Herodion. Photo by Amit A. From Wikipedia

The muscle song XNUMX: a clean folk song

Gladiators on the battlefield, in a painting by Jean-Leon Jerome from 1872

The Muscle Song XNUMX: Blood in the ring

Greek urn with a painting of runners in the Panathletic Games, 530 BC. From Wikipedia

Song of the Muscles 21 - To the places, the gym go!

The model of the Second Temple as photographed at the Holyland Hotel before it was transferred to the Israel Museum. From Wikipedia

The muscle song XNUMX: disadvantages and advantages

The restoration of the facilities and buildings in ancient Olympia. From Wikipedia

The Nineteenth Muscle Song - From Olympia to Tiberias

The amphitheater in Caesarea. From Wikipedia

The muscle song XNUMX - jump to Caesarea and a little to Jericho

Persian archers in a decorative band in the Dervish Palace in Shushan, glass-glazed brick, 510 BC

The Song of the Muscles Chapter XNUMX: Bows to you Israel

A theater site in the city of Tzur. From Wikipedia

The Muscle Song 14th - Olympics in Tyre

A Greek stamp issued a little late (in honor of the 1896 Olympic Games)

The 12th muscle song - this is not just a drawing