BME – Sports (15)

• sports facilities
• candidate’s sporting activities, favourite sports
• mass sports
• sports events, professionals
• extreme sports

Sport includes the healthy lifestyle, crowd sports, racing sports, popular- and extreme sports
and so on. The healthy lifestyle contains eating healthy food, regular movement and free from
stress. I try to live healthy as I know. I eat lots of vegetable dishes, fruits, yoghurts and
cereals.
I like sports, especially handball, tennis and Formula 1. I used to go to fitness centres and play
handball for years but nowadays I only watch handball games on TV. I like this sport because
of the hardness and team playing. We won several awards, for example, silver medal in the
competition of Budapest. Nowadays I take exercises at home with a step machine because I
can’t go out from my daughter. My employer pays the season tickets of a fitness centre so the
managing director help us to keep our fit.

Crowd sports or mass sports are played by several people, so crowd sport means the game
of the crowds. For example, football, running, basketball, etc.

Racing sports or high-performance sports are the sports which are played in functional
competitions and the winners get
medals. For example, motorsports, ice-skating, football, athletics, etc.

As far as I know, the English like playing golf

and cricket, and there are quite a few soccer
fans among them.

Some Americans go to baseball and basketball

games regularly to support their teams. But
there are others who prefer staying at home and watching these games on TV while eating
snacks.

I know that soccer is the most popular sport in the whole world. If we considered a sport that
many people pursue popular, the most popular sport in Hungary are football, handball, hiking
and aerobics. If a popular sport means a sport that many people watch, besides football and
handball, the most popular sports are Formula 1 racing, water polo, swimming and boxing.

Although it’s said that extreme sports are dangerous, many young people try them. These
sports are gliding, white-water rafting, snowboarding, bungee jumping and so on. I think
extreme sports are nice and exciting, but I don’t want to try them. Once I was parachuted with
my husband by a motorboat above the Mediterranean Sea in Tunesia and it was wonderful but
I was afraid because I have agoraphobic.

What do you know about sport facilities?

Sports facilities means enclosed areas of sports pavilions, stadiums, gymnasiums, health spas,
boxing arenas, swimming pools, roller and ice rinks, billiard halls, bowling alleys, and other
similar places where members of the general public assemble to engage in physical exercise,
participate in athletic competition, or witness sporting events.

In Szeged, there are some facilities.

We have tree main swimming pools,
a sport hall, and a stadium is being
built at present. Furthermore, at some
pubs or bar residents can play
billiards or bowling. Lastly, we have
an ice rink where are ice parties (so
called Jégdisco) are regularly held in
winter.
What main sports events have you heard about?

World Major Events

 Rugby World Cup, Six Nations

 Football Super Bowl

 Cycling Events, such as the Tour de France

 Tennis Grand Slam

 Baseball World Series and World Classic

 Boxing major events

 UEFA European Championship

 Olympic Games

How are professionals trained? Can you mention some people who are known by the
public?