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Exciting sporting facts
The Past
From Pelota to Squash
The name 'Pelota' actually stands for a number of different
Basque ball games, the most famous being 'Blaid a Chistera'.
The players use a curved oval bat made from wicker,
the so-called 'chistera', with which a ball, the 'pelota',
is hurled against a wall. After the ball bounces back
over a line parallel to the wall, it is hit back against
the wall.
The game is played with two teams. There are singles,
doubles, or team games with up to 10 players.
The Incredible
Extraordinary records
Fast feet
The fastest Flamenco dancer in the world comes from
Seville. On 4 November, 2000, Sandra Guerrero Toril
danced 507 Flamenco steps in one minute.
International sporting events 2004
6 - 16 May: European Swimming Championships in Madrid
6 - 28 September: Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain)
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Things to do
Jugar al Panuelo (Tissue game)
What you need:
Two tissues.
How to play:
With two lines, two equally sized pitches are marked
out and then divided with a line through the middle.
Two equally sized teams are selected. The members of
both teams are numbered from 1, and upwards… until
each child has a number.
The children from each team stand on the boundary line
in their part of the pitch. A games master stands on
the centre line and calls out a number. He or she holds
out a tissue in each hand.
The children from both teams with that particular number
start running towards the middle, then grab the tissue
that is to the right of them, and continue to the other
team's line.
On the line, a child holds out his/her arm. The running
child loosely ties the tissue to their arm and runs
back to his or her own team. There, they untie the other
team's tissue, run back to the games master in the middle,
and tie it to his/her arm again. After that, they run
back to their own team.
The child who gets back to their own team first is the
winner of this round.
Variation:
The child who loses the round is out. Another child
from the team takes over their number, in addition to
their own. The game continues until all children from
one team are out.
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