Australian Sports

Australian Sports
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Fu Yang 6821812
Hu Jiahu 6822002
Li Shukui 6821928
Zhang Jinjing 6821367 Date: 29/9/2011
1.0Introduction
Australia enjoys the reputation of sporting nation. And Australians love sports and good at sports. Besides, Australians prefer to watch sport programmes, and sports programmes keep high television rating after news and current affairs. So organizational sport －playing it, watching it and arguing about it －is a vital part of Australian culture.
1.1 Categories of sports
A wide variety of sports are played through the country. Her categories mainly have international sports, national sports and Commonwealth Games. There is basketball, golf, tennis, cycling etc. National sports have Australian Rules football, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Cricket, Surf etc. Commonwealth Games is that Australian is one of nations to have attended every British Empire and Commonwealth Games event.
1.2 Developed factors of Australian sports
Developed factors of Australian sports have three points. The first is multicultural atmosphere. Australia is an immigrant country. These immigrants come from different countries and have different cultures. This affects Australian life, but Australians are very glad to accept sports from other countries. It makes Australian sports more variable. The Second is Australian superior climate and geographic environment. The rainfall of south and west of Australia is very small, and there have
enough sunshine, and a long beach coast. These provide ideal condition for Australian to participate in water sports and beach sports. The last is governmental supports and policy. The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is the federal government body responsible for distributing funds and providing strategic guidance for sporting activity in Australia and operates the Australian Institute of sport.
1.3 Characters of sports
Australian sports have four characters. The first point is that sports have mixed into people’s life, and sports have become a lifestyle. Anthony Trollope, the English novelist, visited Australia in the middle of the 19th century (1873) said that sport appeared to be ‘a national necessity’. After one hundred years, the Australian social critic Donald Horne wrote: Sport to many Australians is life and the rest a shadow. The population of Australia is more than 22 million. About 13 million people who are 15 years or above participate in sporting activities, and about 11 million Australian take exercise once a week. 4.2 million Australians take exercise five times a week. (From a blog of sina user) From this, we can see that sport is very importance for Australians. The second point is multicultural. Australian sports have some immigrant sports, they show immigrant culture. The third point is large-scale events. Compared with Chinese sports, the scale of Australian sports is large and most are international. Such as Tennis, Rugby League, Cricket. Hundreds of
thousands people participate in or watch these sports. The last point is effective management system. Institutes of physical Education are funded via government. Academy develops train for many physical activities. Besides, huge logistics network makes outstand Australian athletes get many advantages. Science train and creative are the key reasons that Australian sports gain success.
2.0 Body
2.1 Australia tennis open
Australia tennis open (Australian open tennis championship) is one of four grand slam events tennis. The Australia tennis open is the first one to hold in the fours .it usually comes to the end of the month two weeks in Australia’s second largest city held in Melbourne. The Australian open has been founded in 1905.from founded to now be more about one hundred years. It is the youngest in the four grand slam events.
The stadium located in Melbourne, it is named Melbourne Park. It also can accommodate about sixteen thousand people. The entire stadium is making up by four parts. We not only can see the game, but also can practice and train in it. The biggest characteristics we don’t know are, when it rains during the game it also can continue. It is the biggest stadium in Australian.
Most of the match will prepared gift for the winner. The Australian
tennis open prepared about $6.2million in prize. One of the men’s singles champion prize is 360,000 dollars. That is why it is the most famous game in the world.
In 2011, the China player Li Na gets the champion in the women’s singles. The most import reason is she changed the history of Chinese tennis. This is the highest ranking for Chinese players in this sport.
2.2 Rugby Movement
The rugby movement is spread from the United Kingdom, firstly known as football rather than Rugby. Because the ball likes olive, it is called “Rugby “in China. Gulag is not only the big city of England, but also the birthplace of rugby. It is said that a football game was holed on the middle of 19th century in a colleague, a team member named Ellis can’t bear the result of failure, he caught the ball and run to the gate of opposite side, the action was followed by other members though this is a foul. With the time passing by, more and more people began to accept the situation, So the new form of football game which is full of physical competition and high values was appeared—Rugby.
Rugby World Cup is the world's third largest event only behind the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, all the team members are men, In 1987, the first rugby World Cup was holed by Australian and New Zealand, the Rugby World Cup is holed every 4 years. And the national football teams or NRL (Australia's top football league) mainly in eastern
Australia states, the vast majority of the 16 teams are located in Sydney and surrounding areas.
The Rugby is not only welcomed by adult but also the children, for one reason: when playing sports, Australian are more interested in individual activity. About half the adults’population takes part in this activity. For another reason unlike other football codes, it has no special rules, the game’s characteristics are its speed and high jumps as players leap to catch the ball, there are 18 players on each side. So they are more freedom in the competition. The Rugby league is a full access to the ball games, the central of Australian rugby is issues of violence and the feeling of man, the violence is allowed in Australian rugby competition, and it is the stander of a man. These characteristics are expressed very completely.
2.3 Surfing
In Australia, it has the most magnificent wave and about 37000 kilometers beach. About 75% people of Australia can get to seacoast within one hour, people can image that the scene wherever you stay, whenever and only you want to surf, you can take you equipment of surfing to surf and make yourself enjoy the wave, in Australia. General speaking, the most cool months are July and august, most of foreigner have give up surfing, but Australia insist to surf with the highly spirit, in
their mind, nothing can’t prevent them surfing, the spirit of surfing have seep their bone. In Australia, the best place to surf is Queensland, Surfers paradise places in Australia’s gold coast, but it does not lie in its famous waves, it is that it’s famous long, it is 82 kilometers of coastline, any one place almost to surfing, and so many people go there for surfing.
3.0Conclusion
Australia is a nation who has a wide variety of sports. Multicultural atmosphere, superior climate and geographic environment and governmental supports and policy, largely improve the development of sports. At the same time, these factors also make Australians’ life more rich and wonderful. So sports like Australian Tennis Open, Rugby Movement, surfing etc, have already become a lifestyle. Moreover, sports become a very important part of Australian culture, a kind of sport cultu re. This will not only show its sports and culture, but also attract more people from the world.。