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the glass again
eager expectations filled
like every year
the bells
ringing in the clear night
Last Friday, the President of the American Handball Association hinted that he's pretty good network. "Barack Obama himself will be there," he said, taking it that the highly political message for a few days in advance, which was only earlier this week officially announced: The man from the White House, his authority will throw into the mix in order the IOC Congress on 2 October in Copenhagen Summer Games 2016 awards in Chicago. The
a president knows the world and to trust him that he was in Denmark with his charisma makes sure that his hometown gets the hoped-for contract. The name of the other presidents have to get used yet. His name is Horst-Dieter Esch, and has taken a comparatively much difficult task: He wants a team sport, which leads into the U.S. as a poor relation of the modern pentathlon, pushing with all his strength into the spotlight.
ash is 66 years old and an entrepreneur, which is known in the United States only this: that he came into the country twenty years ago and bought the New York modeling agency Wilhelmina, which now is also active in sports management and is emerging as golfer Sandra Gal of Leicester and the famous swing doctor David Leadbetter under contract.
An award the Games to Chicago would facilitate this objective it set itself enormous. For each host country is allowed to occupy at the Olympic Games, all team competitions with a team and is therefore qualified automatically. "Hand ball it would be nice," said Esch, before he followed Obama to Denmark still operate one last bit of lobbying. In that country, had placed in the more than a hundred years a teacher and officer of the first rules for the game.
is networking at all levels for the former goalkeeper of the field handball team of TV vineyard near Lake Constance, the A and O. For although the game purely superficial interest of most Americans on sports meets - there are many gates, the athletes are strong and go hard to the point - there for the sport on the road to greater audience to overcome many hurdles everywhere. This starts with the nomenclature. In a country where football is called a sport, although it is operated mainly by hand, the concept has created some confusion. For thus officially a once very popular recreational game is called with a rubber ball the size of a tennis ball on the asphalt surfaces on the walls of houses in the large cities at home and is so similar works like squash without the rackets. It had once brought Irish immigrants.
Esch's game in its last details the early 20th century in Germany and was developed in Europe since the change in the hall millions of enthusiastic Americans call therefore helpless "Team Handball". The concept of difference is a trade mark poorly communicated. But that is only part of the Crux. Problems like these can probably be easily overcome, would the discipline initially established at all schools and colleges. The educational institutes that is the backbone of organized sports operation in the U.S.: they have the venues and training facilities, the coaches and the money to competitions unsubscribe. Esch opened because in the first months in office, many doors of the universities in order to come closer to its goal of recruiting 100 000 young players who are not like football or basketball in the sport for the course populares. "This is in stark contrast to what was there before. Previously, we had only the Miltärakademien at West Point and Colorado Springs. "Outside the College World Movement came into the program. "When we started a year ago, we had 23 sets of clubs," said Esch. "Today we have 106th"
Association Intern had the new man but as an outsider without proper sporting references from beginning to overcome many a barrage. The reason for this was not only the history of the eighties of the six and a half year prison sentence for fraud and wrongful, but also inconsistencies in relation to a company called Wilhelmina Scouting Network, which were also brought before the court. Such pressure points in the biographical fabric produced in particular in the Internet forum "Team Handball News" disturbing. For the U.S. Handball Association has collected a bad experience with his managers. The organization went bankrupt years ago and was the American NOK in Colorado Springs pro forma, but continued without any initiative.
With the arrival of Ash, who moved the office of the Association at his private residence in Park City in the State of Utah, the Federation has been put back on their feet and has a budget of around one million dollars per year. To boost the operation, many new initiatives. This includes the partnership with the club win the Handball Bundesliga, but also those advertising gimmicks such as a raffle for new members, the free airline tickets.
The basic work continues. Including inter alia, the recruitment of willing advertisers and donors. The ultimate goal is a professional league to in this way on the radar screen the public interested in sport to arrive. Young talent collects the association with so-called try-outs in the centers of large cities, that is, where the American Basketball enthusiasm is anchored. "We do not need spectacular handball courts," says Ash, "we just need a door painted on the wall. And you can do with it. "
Of all the figures, published by the American PGA Tour pros on their impact, a particularly curious. The statistic is called not only won the prize money, date of birth or body size. The documents make public another detail: the body weight of the golfer. Was able viewers who have never had anything over a certain Brendan de Jonge is from Zimbabwe, to determine quickly how much of the round 29-year-old is from Zimbabwe on the balance, after the surprisingly after the first day of the U.S. Open won the first place: whopping 103 kg.
The tournament on the difficult, 6,300-meter course at Pebble Beach is not easy. The four-day demand Participants in the wind and weather, a lot will. Why become established over the years, a type of golf professional, has the the model of the gym steeled world number one Tiger Woods is similar: The packet has well-proportioned muscle in the arms and shoulders.
But a recipe for success is not. Just think of all those men who walk with heavy steps on the court, but in the end the most important title to win. Whether Argentina's Angel Cabrera (winner of U.S. Open 2007 Masters 2009, weight, according to official figures: 95 kilograms and to chain-smoking), or whether Phil Mickelson (winner of the Masters 2004, 2006, 2010, 91 pounds) - they all carry more important events to the weight of its own expectations as to the mass of superfluous fat. So the Americans in this tournament, Mickelson was one of the favorites, after he had prepared the Friday with an impressive second round of 66 shots to rank second in the intermediate standings (behind the eventual winners, the Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell).
But not just body size seems to be no problem to top golfing. Was able for the U.S. Open this year to qualify, a player who won two years ago his second new heart implanted. The history of the American Erik Compton, who failed on Friday but the cut shows, at least one thing: the true qualities of a Golfers must consist of something other than that switching circuit, the athletes in sports like athletics or the bicycle race now increasingly manipulate with drugs.
Just think of the British Open at Turnberry in Scotland last year, until the penultimate hole a 59-year-old was at the top. The exceptional American golfer Tom Watson, who played for four days with amazing precision, lost the first in the jump off against the younger by 23 years countryman Stewart Cink. A similarly unusual power had made 2008 the Australian Greg Norman. He went at Royal Birkdale as the leader in the decisive round and finished third - at the age of 53.
Anyway: Both Watson and Norman have increased, in contrast to many on the Champions Tour professionals no more than 50 grams of liquid. One aspect which some time ago the former world number one David Duval said when he heard of the type of argument of overweight Englishman Lee Westwood (officially 94 pounds) abschmetterte any question about his eating habits: "If I want to be athlete, it would I 400-meter runner now. I'm not an athlete, I'm golfing. "
" The golf swing is a very athletic movement, "Duval justified his then his rigorous devotion to intense weight training. A little later he won the British Open. "Fitness," he said, "provides for a longer career and helps to prevent injuries."
fact Duval has suffered the biggest success of his career to an unexplained form of weakness and will only rarely and, now, with some pretty extra weight in the abdominal area from remarkable results. Westwood played the other hand, since a few years for major tournaments ever with the title and is in third place in the world rankings. After two rounds at Pebble Beach he lay in wait at the 16th Place. "I have good chances," he said.
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