https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/tags/sports/ Recent content in Sports on Life In Good Measure Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 14 May 2025 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/strongman/ Wed, 14 May 2025 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/strongman/ xxxxx xx Strongman competitions. 1969-1221 Magnus Samuelson* strongman/arm wrestling champion/actor – Linköping, Sweden 1970-1201 Jouko Ahola* strongman/power-lifter/actor – Hämeenlinna, Finland https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/for-the-love-of-football/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/for-the-love-of-football/ Anyone interested in the fantastic team sports of football (yeah we know, Americans mean something else with it), would love to watch the matches between the qualified nations in the ongoing football tournament in Qatar. Either in television or live on the scene. But this time around - as perhaps four years ago in Russia - it is a big if whether that love exceeds the disgust for everything surrounding this otherwise marvellous and exciting tournament. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/formula-1/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 07:49:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/formula-1/ Fast driving with fast men! What do they have in common - those men that is? And some of the few women in the circuit? It takes a special type of person for sure to sit in that cockpit and make those rapid decisions between success and failure - and life and death. Here is a chronological list of all the Formula One World Champions: 1906-1030 Giuseppe Farina* from Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy (1966/59) https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/sport-climbing/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/sport-climbing/ Whether we know them as boulderers, lead climbers, rock climbers or speed climbers, they are all essentially sport climbers. They’ve been around for decades, but recently more so as sport climbing is a rapidly growing sport. Pretty fascinating to watch too, and these days a professional sport just like any other! Here is one good page on everything you need to know about sport climbing. And if you wanto to know a little bit about how do the climbers manage to take those impossible looking grips (! https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/womens-tennis/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/womens-tennis/ Serena Williams, one of the greatest - if not the greatest - female tennis players in history, recently announced that she would be ending her career this year. There are always new and interesting players coming in the arena of this great sport, always someone to cheer and follow. But Serena will be greatly missed. in honor of her, and all the other sporting women out there, here is a another Journey of Life list for you! https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/vasaloppet/ Sun, 06 Mar 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/vasaloppet/ Vibeke Skofterud from Norway, women’s winner in 2012 There is a big celebration today in Mora, Sweden! For it is 100 years since the very first Vasaloppet took place in 1922. Vasaloppet is an annual long distance cross-country ski race held on the first Sunday of March. The 90 km (56 mi) course starts in the village of Sälen and ends in the town of Mora in Dalarna, Sweden. It is the oldest cross-country ski race in the world, as well as the one with the highest number of participants. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/ski-jumpers/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/ski-jumpers/ Finnish memorial stamp for Matti Nykänen, Olympic gold medalist in Calgary in 1988 Ski jumping takes a special character. Not just anybody would, even with proper training, dare to start sliding down the ski hill, and then jump at the speed of around 100km/h (62 mph). So, here follows a list of male ski jumpers. With their best individual placement in the Olympics and/or the World Championships, abbreviated as OG (Olympic Gold), OS (Olympic Silver), OB (Olympic Bronze), WG (World Champion), WS (Silver medalist) and WB (Bronze medalist). https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/100-greatest-nhl-players/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 04:49:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/100-greatest-nhl-players/ This is for you hockey lovers! The list of the 100 Greatest NHL Players (NHL 100) according to NHL. A centerpiece in honoring 100 years of NHL hockey, selected by distinguished members of the hockey community. There are so many great hockey players that it can’t have been an easy task to select the greatest. Nevertheless, this is the official list of the National Hockey League. Shown here a là Journeys of Life - chronologically, showing also the possible other professions or activities of the player, and followed by a monthwise list. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/javelin-throwers/ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 15:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/javelin-throwers/ Tero Pitkämäki from Finland throwing javelin Javelin throw is a separate event in light athletics, and also an event of the men’s decathlon and the women’s heptathlon. Sweden’s Eric Lemming, who threw his first world best (49.32 meters) in 1899 and ruled the event from 1902 to 1912, was the first dominant javelin thrower. Here below you see a list of the most successful javelin throwers, both male and female. Some of whom have in a similar way dominated the discipline, but perhaps not in as many years. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/shot-putters/ Sat, 08 Aug 2020 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/shot-putters/ Are you into athletics? As a spectator? Whether you are interested in the sprints or any other kind of running events, you may be like most of us sports fans and welcome the other events between races as well. Such as shot put. Here you have a list of the most famous shot putters - some of them Olympic gold medalists or world champions, some with lesser medals. But all with the passion to push that very heavy spherical object - men’s weighs 7. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/triple-gold-club/ Sun, 19 May 2019 11:36:22 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/triple-gold-club/ [caption id=“attachment_10453” align=“alignleft” width=“235”]TGC member Peter Forsberg[/caption] To be part of a winning team in Stanley Cup, World Championship and Olympic Games in ice hockey means belonging to the Triple Gold Club. To date (May 29th, 2022) there are 30 players who have accomplished that. They have all played either offense or defense. Here follows a list of them all (11 Canadians, 9 Swedes, 7 Russians, 2 Czechs, and one Finn). https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/women-in-ufc/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 19:25:12 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/women-in-ufc/ On this Women’s Day, let’s have something specially for women. Some of you might ask what makes a woman want to fight professionally? And the minute you do, you already know the answer. Fighting is not just for men. We all have the need to assert ourselves, defend ourselves and even attack when need be. And some of us want to watch people fight, professionally that is. There is big business built around all that. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/did-you-know-that-4/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 07:10:14 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/did-you-know-that-4/ when the Olympic Gold Medalist in men’s javelin, Jan Zelezný, threw his world record of 98.48 meters in Jena, Germany back in May 1996, there was a little boy of four years of age living in that same city who would become a future Olympic Champion in his own right?  That little boy was Thomas Röhler, and he won his Olympic Gold in Rio Janeiro 20 years later in August 2016. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/survivor-winners/ Sat, 21 Jul 2018 21:22:28 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/survivor-winners/ Survivor is one of the favorite shows of many of us, and definitely of this blogger. As you may know, there are several Survivor series around the world; this article deals solely with the American version. And this one has long been coming: a list of all the Survivor Winners. But since probably not all of you have seen all the seasons, it is time to give a definite S P O I L E R A L E R T ! https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/from-russia-with-love/ Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:44:09 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/from-russia-with-love/ So France won the World Cup 2018 in Russia. Congratulations France, and thanks FIFA for all that great football! And thank you, the players from all the 32 participating countries. Paris welcomes today the French players, but hats off for the Croatian team, and better luck next time! Meanwhile, Paris welcomes its heroes. It has been said countless of times how young the French national side is. Keeping up with the nature of this site, let’s see just how young: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/nhl-goalkeepers/ Fri, 18 May 2018 02:55:22 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/nhl-goalkeepers/ [caption id=“attachment_2324” align=“alignright” width=“242”]Martin Brodeur in 2006[/caption] For all you hockey fans out there, here is a list of all the goaltenders who have reached 350+ wins in the NHL! True to the site genre, the list below is chronological. Active goalies are marked with *** and behind each goalie you see the nationality, match wins and matches played. The ranking is shown in brackets. For the more traditional list, check below this one.