STAGE 2

6 questions Maximisers of +5 Points for theme are specified before each slide

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HAKEEM OLAJUWON

In X's college career and early years in the NBA, he was often undisciplined, talking back to officials, getting in minor fights with other players and amassing technical fouls. Later, X took an active interest in spirituality, becoming a more devout Muslim. He altered his name from ________ to the proper Arabic spelling X, saying, "I'm not changing the spelling of my name, I'm correcting it". He later recalled, "I studied the Qur'an every day. At home, at the mosque...I would read it in airplanes, before games and after them. I was soaking up the faith and learning new meanings each time I turned a page. I didn't dabble in the faith, I gave myself over to it." X was still recognized as one of the league's elite centers despite his strict observance of Ramadan (i.e., abstaining from food and drink during daylight hours for about a month), which occurred during virtually every season of his career. X was noted as sometimes playing better during the month, and in one particular year he was named NBA Player of the Month in February, even though Ramadan began on February 1 of that year. X?

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In 1996 and 1997 he won the CART championship for Target Chip Ganassi Racing. His excited personality endeared him to fans, and his trademark celebratory donuts have been imitated by winning racers until today. Those championships earned him a trip to Formula One, where he performed pretty dismally. He didn't give up and returned to Champ Car racing in 2001. Then he lost his legs in a terrifying accident.

Instead of giving up on himself, X stayed positive. He got prosthetic legs (he liked them because he could choose his own height). Then he got back behind the wheel of specially adapted race cars in both Champ Car (he ran 13 laps on the track where he lost his legs) and World Touring Cars. He won some touring car races, but then decided to call it quits.

Who?

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She broke the mold of what a lady golfer was supposed to be. The ideal in the 20s and 30s was Joyce Wethered, a willowy Englishwoman with a picture-book swing that produced elegant shots but not especially long ones. _______ developed a grooved athletic swing reminiscent of Lee Trevino's, and she was so strong off the tee that a fellow Texan, the great golfer Byron Nelson, once said that he knew of only eight men who could outdrive her. "It's not enough just to swing at the ball," she said. "You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it." journalist Charles McGrath, New York Times,

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X, the greatest athlete in the world, was a laconic, evasive passerby who defied Olympic idealising.A dedicated and highly well trained athlete, he had an aversion to work. X was careless of his feats and a lazy "Indian" whose gifts were entirely bestowed by nature.

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Football was the fastest-growing sport with females, citing an Australian Sports Commission survey from 2009 that showed there were 400,000 participants and 100,000 registered players, with the game growing at a rate of between 5 and 8 per cent in recent years. The matildas are now the darlings of the nation, bringing laurels and plaudits to the country.

X, playing in the postion of center back for the country, is now established as the most versatile sportsperson in the world, and made it into the history books
Who?

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Most famous former England cricketers, in recent years at least, have made a seamless transition from dressing room to commentary box. "I never fancied that," says X. "I love cricket don't get me wrong and take my boys to the Oval. I watch it at home when the missus lets me put it on telly. But I'm only 34 and I don't want to be sitting behind a microphone talking about cricket. People just see you ageing on TV. It's like the lifestyle of the cricketer, but you don't get the thrill of playing." He's happy to do the odd day especially when Australia return next summer but he doesn't want to spend the next 30 years sitting in the Sky box blathering on. "The one thing I know about myself is I've got to be into something to do it. I've got to be passionate about it." That was also the reason he ruled out appearing on Strictly Come Dancing. "I can't commit to something I'm not into, and I don't want to do something half-arsed." X?

And the connect is.....

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People who have taken part in multiple sports

Exchange sheets

ANSWERS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Hakeem Olajuwon Alex Zanardi Babe Zaharias Jim Thorpe Ellyse Perry Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff