Sports Betting

Ice hockey equipment

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

The hard surfaces of the ice and boards, pucks flying at high speed (over 160 kilometers per hour (100 mph) at times), and other players maneuvering (and often intentionally colliding, AKA checking) pose a multitude of inherent safety hazards. Besides ice skates and sticks, hockey players are usually equipped with an [...]

Rules and equipment of biathlon

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Andrea Nahrgang prepares to shoot from the prone position at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The complete rules of biathlon is given in the official IBU rule book. However, the concise description given below, along with the section on competition format, should be enough for a spectator to understand what is going [...]

Equipment for cross-country skiing: Bindings/boots

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Three different binding systems are used in modern cross-country skiing:

NNN (New Nordic Norm) – including the new R4 NIS variant
SNS (Salomon Nordic System) Profil
SNS  Pilot

Older styled three-pin bindings (Nordic Norm), with or without cables, are still used by backcountry and Telemarking enthusiasts.
NNN
New Nordic Norm (NNN) bindings, made by Rottefella, Rossignol, and Atomic, can range [...]

Equipment for Cross-country skiing: Skis and poles

Friday, April 10th, 2009

The skis are long and thin, to distribute the weight of the skier and allow the skier to move quickly. Typical ski dimensions are 2 metres in length, about 5 centimetres in width and one to four centimetres in thickness, depending on the ski brand and which point of the ski is [...]

Darts

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Darts in a dartboard
Darts is a game, or rather a variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dart board) hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term ‘darts’ usually now refers to a standardized game [...]