This gives them an advantage when running around a track counter-clockwise, because it allows for their more powerful leg to remain on the outside, facilitating the turns. When running counter-clockwise, you will filch longer strides with your right leg-which allows for more propulsion and speed on the turns. Scientists agree that most of us are not only right handed but also right legged. We kick the ball with the right leg, and if falling forward we catch ourselves more often with the right leg.
The right leg is more muscular and makes longer steps in walking, according to Prof. The right side of the body, in general, being stronger makes it easier for people to turn left than to turn right. Biomechanically, pushing is easier than pulling; so when the right side pushes or propels, the left side being weaker automatically withdraws, but while turning right, the dominant right side makes a truly tiring effort, allowing the left side to simply follow.
Same way, most people being right-leg dominant, use their left -leg for support when turning. Right dominate leg will push off stronger, carrying the body farther, which leaves a greater distance between strides of the non-dominant foot. Because of the slight difference in stride length, a right dominate person will circle, or veer, toward the right. Whereas a left dominant person will veer toward the left Stockton, According to them, as the heart is on the left side, for humans and animals, running counter-clockwise makes the centrifugal force in the body to act from left to right, and from right to left for clockwise running.
When the body loses equilibrium, it has a strong tendency to fall toward the heart side. This also explains why most riders find it easier to corner to the left than to the right. The centrifugal force, due to running in clockwise direction, will make the centrifugal force to impede suction and tire the athlete. Apart from this, it is also argued that when an athlete runs in counter-clockwise direction, he encounters only left turns and as a matter of fact left turns are easier than right turns, as explained above.
The physiological fact is also quoted as the major reason for the health officers in the olden days ensuring that all carnival merry-go-rounds were run only in the anti-clock-wise direction. It is a curious fact that all things which move over the surface of the earth tend to sidle from their appointed paths-to the right in the Northern Hemisphere to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
The magnitude of the effect also depends directly on the speed of the moving object. Every carnival worth the name has a Coriolian coordinate system: viz. When the merry-go-round starts up, you begin a game of catch. The earth is a spherical merry- go —round, and all of the carioles drifts we observe when we use terrestrial coordinate systems are due ultimately to the fact that the earth, like the merry-go-round, is always spinning out from under our dynamical systems.
In pursuance of this principle, the racing tracks, animal shows in circuses, bullock-down pelt on wheels, all mostly have only left turns. Stairways in temple towers have only left turns for going up. It is so because moving counter-clockwise is probably parsimonious economical in terms of energy cost and biomechanics.
Although we find it much easier to hoop in an anti- clockwise direction than a clockwise one apparently this is normal for right-handed people. However, if we can learn to hoop in both directions we will get better- looking abs, because we will then be working the muscles on both sides of our body Wood, The Tail Piece The direction we read also provides a fine answer to this question.
Most languages are read from left to right. It is true that Chinese and Arabic are read from right to left and traditional Japanese is read downwards left to right, but these are the exceptions. Rugani University of Trento, Italy says animals and humans may instinctively count from the left because the right hemisphere of the brain — which processes the left field of vision — is dominant in visual tasks.
This suggests counting from the left may be instinctive rather than culturally learned. Even www. It is no fun but a proven fact that if a person is blindfolded and told to walk forward, the right-handed person will begin to lean towards the left and the left-handed person towards the right. The Rule Book With regard to the track events foot races , the rule book says that running will run with their disappeared hand to the inside. Somewhere, lost in the mists of time, officialdom fixed to standardize on certain things close to the distance of races, the point of hurdles, and the width of lane.
Importantly, they also standardized the direction the race would go. Presently, the rules for track events foot races , the track geometry, direction of travel, etc. Syah, Real Time for Real People, Malaysia. Simone, D. Anthon, Quest, USA. Eber, A. Word press. Why do athletes run counter-clockwise?
Why do Athletes run around the track anti-clockwise? Brown, P. Why do athletes have to race around the track in an anti-clockwise direction? The Sporting Life. London: guardian News. Sprott, J. Seasons, Tides, and Phases of the Moon. Department of Physics ,University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Stafne, G. Predominance of clockwise swimming during rest in Southern Hemisphere dolphins. Ingels, N. Relation between longitudinal, circumferential, and oblique shortening and torsional deformation in the left ventricle of the transplanted human heart, Circ Res. JACC Journals, 64, Coleman, T. Send a query. Lucky dip. Any answers? Nooks and crannies. Semantic enigmas. The body beautiful. Red tape, white lies. Speculative science.
This sceptred isle. Root of all evil. Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. Cotmore, Mansfield, Notts. BECAUSE of the effect of the Earth's rotation, an athlete running anti-clockwise will have a slight advantage, resulting in a faster time.
In the Southern Hemisphere, this effect is reversed but, as the sport grew up in the Northern Hemisphere, anti-clockwise races have remained, despite the international status of athletics. Evidence of this phenomenon is that none of the current world track records have been set south of the Equator.
The question is, if the World Championships are ever held in the Southern Hemisphere, would the IAAF decide that track events should be run in the opposite direction? Peter Brown, Sheffield. THE answer involving gravitational effects was not convincing. I think the tradition goes back to the Olympic Games, circa BC. Look at him! I love him. By then, he had won the heart of the nation. The mother of American gymnast Aly Raisman was less eloquent, shouting "stick it, stick it" throughout her daughter's performance on the uneven bars last weekend.
No-one could argue that watching your own child perform isn't agonising to watch, Lynn's peculiar facial and body contortions really caught the eye. Dad Ricky joined in. They squirmed, they gyrated and the video went viral. Olympic athletes are under extreme pressure. But where the men in the m final might once have stared straight ahead, now when the camera passes down the line, each does a small performance.
In Sunday's men's m final, Asafa Powell of Jamaica squinted while pouting slightly. America's Justin Gatlin walked off and saluted the crowd. Yohan Blake, who likes to be known as "the beast", shook his whole body before growling at the camera.
The eventual winner Usain Bolt danced as if listening to music before putting two fingers on each side of his head, as if wiping sweat away. He then pointed both fingers to the camera before putting them away into invisible gun holders. Also included in his ritual were a spot of mock DJ-ing and waggling two fingers as if to mime a runner. Go to about of this video in the UK only to relive the full routine.
While it was made clear before the games that any attempts at ambush marketing - non-sponsor's efforts to smuggle their branding into the games - would not be tolerated, at least one firm has easily circumvented the rules. A number of Olympics watchers have picked up on the prevalence of rapper Dr Dre's Beats headphones at the Games. Their ubiquity has been at least in part to free distribution to athletes.
They've been particularly noticeable during the swimming, where the camera often lingers on competitors as they "get into the zone". Why is it standard that gold medallists will bite their medals while posing for the cameras? The gesture apes the age-old test for checking whether a coin is gold. If it's really gold, the teeth should leave a small indentation. Some say the test was primarily for a lead-based fake, which would be even softer than gold.
Now it's become the equivalent at the Olympics of a victorious FA Cup player using the trophy lid as a hat. So why do they do it? Largely, they are responding to requests from photographers to "kiss it" or "bite it".
Many now anticipate it. American Marti Malloy, who has earned a bronze medal for judo at the current Games, offered to strike the traditional pose. The gesture goes back a long way. John Regis remembers doing it at the world championships. I was just making sure it wasn't chocolate," jokes Regis. But there are dangers. In February , during the winter Games a German luger broke a corner off his front tooth after biting down on his medal. And while the medal might be one of the biggest ever, the "gold" one only contains 1.
We are now used to seeing athletes' body adorned in coloured tape , but German volleyball player Katrin Holtwick intrigued spectators with her elaborate display. Eight turquoise strips fanned out over her stomach in her match against the Czech Republic on day one of the games. Her team mate Ilka Semmler opted for fluorescent pink tape across her left buttock. It is claimed the Japanese-made Kinesio tape can help to mend injuries. Where standard strapping can provide muscle and joint support, it limits movement and, according to it inventor Dr Kenzo Kase, gets in the way of the healing process by restricting the flow of inflammatory fluids below the skin.
Kinesio tape is supposed to lift the skin to assist this lymphatic flow, reducing pain and swelling. Lord Moynihan, chairman of the British Olympic Association, has described it as " one of the worst statistics in British sport ".
It's partly about resources and emphasis - private schools tend to have good sport facilities, the coaches and the time to devote to breeding sporting excellence.
Provision is more variable in state schools. All of Britain's equestrian winners in were privately educated. But there's a growing view that the UK's top sportsmen and women are becoming ever posher. England cricketers used to be state school boys. Today, most are privately educated, as is the case with England rugby players. Even the England football team - traditionally a working class preserve - now has two privately educated midfielders.
Some commentators, like Rupert Murdoch , have said it isn't just resources but down to ideology - a fear of competition in state schools. It's an argument that public schools inculcate values - discipline, self reliance and competition. It's a false premise, John Harris argued in the Observer.
There is a long roll call of Jessica Ennis, Bradley Wiggins, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah, among others, that debunks the view that only private schools produce winners.
Indeed, after his victory Farah paid tribute to his comprehensive PE teacher. The success of Andy Murray has been fought over by both sides. He is a comprehensive boy. Until there's a final collation of which education sector won what at London , the debate over schooling is likely to rage on. Wild nail art, much beloved of teenage girls, has taken precedence at the Games, with swimmers, archers, volleyball players and tennis players - female that is - showing it off. In many cases, the mini canvasses have sported painted flags.
British swimmer Rebecca Adlington's tiny union jacks stood out against the backdrop of the bronze medal she was holding. Mireia Belmonte, Spanish m freestyle silver medallist, expressed envy. I was amazed by them and I wanted to do the same.
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