Erasmus Sport Week - February 2018 - Day 6


The Erasmus Sport Week is almost over and today we want to talk about a weird sport competition coming from England.

All running after the cheese. Every year thousands of people take part in the traditional tournament of 'cheeserolling', the international contest where competitors try to catch, before anyone else, one cheese that rolls along a very steep slope. The race takes place on at Cooper's Hill, in rural Gloucestershire, England.

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Erasmus Sport Week - February 2018 - Day 5


The Erasmus Sport Week reaches its fifth day and it keeps underlining how the sport activities are necessary for our society.

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Erasmus Sport Week - February 2018 - Day 4


The fourth day of our Erasmus Sport Week is dedicated to a young sport lover.

A Welsh 13-year-old girl is the first European female athlete to perform a wheelchair backflip. The attempts took more than 6 hours! Lily Rice, from Pembrokeshire, Wales, has been filmed in a gym in Cardiff while repeatedly falling trying to perform the backflip. Finally, after many hours, the your athlete managed to perform the trick correctly.

More info on Lily's performance

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Erasmus Sport Week - February 2018 - Day 3


For the third day of the Erasmus Sport Week, we would like to celebrate the great rugby team: the All Blacks!

The All Blacks’ myth has born by accident: in particular, it has been created by a typo. In 1905, the New Zealand national rugby team joined the European tour and won every match. While in Paris, a British journalist was shocked by the energy and the speed of the team and he reported that the New Zealanders played as if they were "all backs". However, the printer thought to a typo and he added an “L” to the nickname: that's how the name of All Blacks' originated and it's stuck ever since.

More info about the All Blacks’ origins

 

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