My favorite sport

Sport plays an important role in our life. Everyone who wants to be healthy and keep fit should go in for sports. There is a good English proverb that saying: “If we are healthy, we are wealthy”. It’s essential to do sports regularly not once in a while, only then it improves our health, gives us joy, pleasure and satisfaction. That is why I believe Physical Education is a useful subject. At the lessons students play different games such as volleyball and basketball. In winter they go skiing if there is enough snow. Students also take part in various competitions and those who show the best results become winners.

As for me, I’m fond of different kinds of sports and games but my favourite one is swimming. Swimming is a popular recreational activity and a competitive sport. Swimming has been known since prehistoric times. The goal of a swimmer usually is to complete a given distance in the smallest time. There are also swimming competitions based on endurance or precedence rather than speed, such as crossing the English Channel or some other stretch of open water. As a sport, swimming is usually distinguished from other acquatic sports (such as diving, synchronized swimming and water polo) that involve the act of swimming but where the goal is neither speed nor endurance.

Swimming has been part of the modern Olympic Games since their inception in 1896, and is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). The belief is widely held that swimming is the best aerobic exercise in the world.

As for swimwear, there are team suit and cap. The suit covers the skin for modesty Competitive swimwear seeks to improve upon bare human skin for a speed advantage. For extra speed a swimmer wears a body suit, which has rubber or plastic bumps that break up the water close to the body and provides a small amount of thrust—just barely enough to help a swimmer swim faster.

A swim cap (or cap) keeps the swimmers hair out of the way to reduce drag. During practice, many female swimmers wear caps with different sayings, patterns or both.

Goggles are also very important. Goggles keep water and chlorine out of swimmers eyes. Prescription goggles can help those that need glasses. If you have contacts, you should find ones that are a more dependable to prevent protein build-up in your eyes (including starts).

I can go swimming all the year round. Actually, I have been practicing it seriously since I was six. I believe that swimming makes me healthy and strong. I also like being part of a team. We have already travelled through lots of cities for our competitions and won a great number of prizes I am really proud of. Of course, I feel exhausted at times as I have trainings almost every day but I should say it’s a pleasant and satisfactory feeling. Frankly speaking I hope to become a famous sportsman one day.

In conclusion I’d like to say that there are summer and winter sports. In summer we all enjoy badminton, cycling and camping and in winter these are hockey, skating and skiing. So, there is an activity to choose for everyone. In my opinion, it’s necessary for people of all ages to go in for sports.

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