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Kurt |
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Kurt |
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| Beginnings: | Born
December 9,1968
Home town Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Family: | Four
brothers: David, Mark, Johnny and Eric
One sister: Leanne Mother: Marie Father: David He is single |
| Education: | High School: Mount Lebanon, Pittsburgh, PA, 1987 College: Clarion University, Clarion, Pennsylvania B.S. in geography in 1992 |
| Sport(s): | Wrestling |
| Interests: | Coaching kids' sports teams. |
| Accomplishments: | Kurt
won the gold in the 1996 Olympics
Went on to the WWF |
| Interesting Facts: | He went on to the World Wrestling Federation. |
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History and Rules Of Wrestling |
Wrestling was started
more than 15,000 years ago. Drawings were found on the walls of caves in
France. There are drawings from Egyptian and Babylonian times showing
wrestlers doing holds they do today. In ancient Greece, wrestling
was the most important contest of the Olympics games. In Rome, wrestling
was the same as Greek wrestling but not so vicious. In the middle
ages wrestling was still popular. The colonist found that wrestling
was still popular with the Native Americans. The first wrestling
tournament was held in New York in 1888. The first tournament in
the Olympic games was in 1904 in Saint Louis, Missouri. Then in 1912,
the first NCAA wrestling championship was held in Iowa. Wrestling
became an Olympic event in 1983.
There are two ways
of wrestling at the Olympic games. One of the ways of wrestling
is the Greek Roman. Another way of wrestling is freestyle.
The wrestlers in Greek and Roman times used their bodies and arms to make
their opponent fall to the ground. In freestyle wrestling, the wrestler
may use his legs, arms, and body to make their opponent fall to the ground.
In wrestling, there are certain rules about a wrestler's body. You
cannot have long finger nails or a beard. Wrestlers also cannot
have jewelry and are not allowed to be sweaty. Wrestlers must
have a handkerchief in their outfits at all times. This became a rule a
long time ago when people needed to wipe their runny noses. The wrestler
uses the handkerchief in case their nose starts to bleed. All of
these rules are to protect the wrestlers.
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Country the Athlete Represented | ||
Kurt Angle is from
the United States of America. Kurt was in the 1996 Olympics and won
the gold medal in wrestling. The United States of America has about
300,000,000 people in it. The square footage of U.S.A. is 3,675,031.
The U.S.A. is located in the northern hemisphere. The place that
Kurt Angle grew up in was Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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