Kho- Kho Indian Sports Play

Kho- Kho is Indian sports played by teams of twelve players who try o avoid being touched by members of the opposing team.

In Kho –Kho, one team sits or kneels in a row, with alternate members in the row facing opposite directions. The other team may send two or three members in the court. The motive for the sitting team is to try and “tag’’ the opponents. The chasers can only run in one direction and cannot cut across the sitters (unlike the dodgers who can run randomly and in between the sitters). They have to run round the entire row to reach the other side. The other option is to pass the chasing job to another sitter whose back is facing you as you are running. The chaser touches the sitter he wants (usually nearest to the target) and shouts “Kho’’ to signify the change of guard. The objective is to tag all the opponents in the shortest time possible. If the other team takes longer, the former team wins.

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Modern pentathlon –spot

The modern pentathlon is a 5 –event contest, hence the name pentathlon. The events are epee fencing, pistol shooting; 200 m free style swimming, a show jumping course on horseback, and a cross-country run. The epithet modern is important to distinguish it from the ancient athletics pentathlon. None of the events of modern pentathlon were part of the ancient Olympics.

Olympic modern pentathlon

• shooting- a) 4.5 mm air pistol  20 shots at 20 targets
• epee all fencer meet each other in a series of one- touch epee bouts, each lasting one minute
• show jumping
• swimming
•  200 freestyle race against the clock
• Running

*A 350 -450 m stadium course against the clock with 15 jumps, including one double and one triple combination. The final event is a 3000 m run.