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Commonwealth Games Are Open: The Commonwealth Games are open to member nations of the British Commmonwealth. Originally called the Empire Games until 1970, they were first held in Canada in 1930. They are nicknamed 'the Friendly Games'.Whilst representing Canada Lennox Lewis,
subsequently WBC world heavyweight champion, won the super-heavy¬weight boxing gold medal in 1986 at Edinburgh.
Between 1970 and 1994 four Olympic champions monopolised the Commonwealth 100 m title. Don Quarrie (Jamaica), Allan Wells (Scotland), Ben Johnson (Canada) and Linford Christie (England) won the seven golds in that period.
Canadian swimmer Graham Smith holds the record for most gold medals at one Games. At the
Edmonton Games in 1978 he won six golds.See Also The Games Included:The games included chariot and horse races in a hippodrome, foot races in a stadium, athletic contests in a gymnasium, musical, drama¬tic, and literary competitions in a theater; works of painting and sculpture also were exhibited. Prizes of laurel wreaths and palm branches gen¬erally were awarded to the victors, who also were allowed to have their statues erected in the plain. Though prohibited by legislation in 394 A.D., the games appear to have survived as late as 424 A.D. (our last certain reference). Almost 30 minor Pythian Games were celebrated in other parts of the Greek world.
In the way of practical help, suggest games that could be played at home (e.g. word bingo or a cloze game where children fill in missing words or phrases), explaining the particular value of games to a child with reading problems -namely that they're fun and so don't seem too much like hard work, and also that they have a useful repetitive, reinforcing function. When you recommend a game, try to explain just how it is designed to help. There are booklets and pamphlets available, which give ideas for games that can easily be made and played at home (e.g. Hip Pocket Spelling Games series, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).
On The Other Hand See Pythian Games:PYTHIAN GAMES, pith'i-an gamz, one of the four national festivals of the ancient Greeks. They were celebrated partly in the Crisean Plain near Delphi (formerly Pytho), Greece, and partly in Delphi itself, in honor of Apollo, god of proph¬ecy (among other functions), whose oracle was at Delphi and who had slain Python (q.v.), who had guarded the oracle. The games, ranking second in importance to the Olympic Games were be¬lieved to have been instituted by Apollo himself and were conducted by the Delphians every eighth year before 583 B.C., but in the next year their management was transferred to the Amphictyonic League (q.v.), which held them at four-year in¬tervals.
Innumerable choirs—of men, women, boys, or girls -sang in religious ceremonies, at marriages and funerals, at sowing and harvest, or to celebrate athletic victories, and the great poets wrote songs for them. Choirs were sent from all parts of the Greek world to religious centers like Delphi and Delos. Less formal gatherings—for instance, symposia, or drinking parties—gave occasion for solo songs. Professional string instrumentalists (kitharoidoi) and wind instrumentalists (auletai) competed at festivals such as the Pythian Games at Delphi and the Panathenaea at Athens. |
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