The 2022 UEFA Champions League Final will take place on 28 May 2022. This will be the 67th season of UEFA's premier European football club competition and the 30th season since the European Cup was renamed the UEFA Champions League. The winner of the final will qualify to play the 2021/2022 UEFA Europa League winner for the 2022 UEFA Super Cup title and qualify for the 2022/2023 UEFA Champions League group stage

 

The 2021/22 UEFA Champions League is in the play-off stage.

 

 

When will the final take place?

The decisive match will take place on Saturday 28 May and will start at 21:00 CET.

 

If there is a draw in regular time, extra time will follow: two extra-times of 15 minutes each. If after their expiration the score is equal again, the winner will be determined in the 11-meter series.

 

Where will the final take place?

The final will take place at the Gazprom Arena in St. Petersburg, which was built before the 2018 World Cup. It is located a few hundred meters from the Gulf of Finland on the site of the former Kirov Stadium, where the matches of the football tournament of the 1980 Olympic Games were held.

 

The author of the project is Japanese architect Kise Kurokawa. The stadium is equipped with a retractable roof and can accommodate more than 60,000 spectators. In 2018, an ice hockey match between the national teams of Russia and Finland was held here in the presence of more than 80,000 fans.

 

This will be the third European Cup final in Russia. In 1999, Parma defeated Olimpik at the Luzhniki stadium in the UEFA Cup final, and in 2008, Manchester United defeated Chelsea in the Champions League final at the same arena.

 

 

What will the winner receive?

The Champions Cup weighs 7.5 kilograms and rises 73.5 centimeters. "It may not be a masterpiece, but everyone in football wants to touch it," said trophy creator Jürg Stadelmann.

 

Also prepared are 40 gold medals for the winners and 40 silver medals for the losers. Additional medals are not allowed.

 

The winner of the Champions League will also receive a place in the group stage of the next edition. Unless, of course, it does not guarantee it through the national championship.

 

Which team will be the host?

The nominal host of the final will be determined by a draw, which will be held on March 18 for administrative purposes. The finalists may enter the field in their primary colors, but if they overlap, the guest nominees must use a spare kit.

 

The 2022 UEFA Champions League Final will take place on 28 May 2022. This will be the 67th season of UEFA's premier European football club competition and the 30th season since the European Cup was renamed the UEFA Champions League. The winner of the final will qualify to play the 2021/2022 UEFA Europa League winner for the 2022 UEFA Super Cup title and qualify for the 2022/2023 UEFA Champions League group stage

 

The 2021/22 UEFA Champions League is in the play-off stage. UEFA.com tells how it will end.

 

 

Bemorepanda collected some interesting facts.

 

1. For the third year in a row, a team has played in a Cup/Champions League final for the first time (Tottenham in 2019, PSG in 2020, Manchester City in 2021). The last time this happened was between 1986 and 1988 (Steaua, Porto, PSV).

 

2. The Champions League final will be the eighth in a row in which two clubs from the same country will play. This will be the third time this will be a match between English clubs (after the Champions League finals Chelsea - Manchester United in 2008 and Liverpool - Tottenham in 2019).

 

3. This season's final will take place at the Dragau Stadium in Portugal. This is the first time that a Cup/Champions League decisive match has been played in the same country for several years (Da Luz Stadium hosted the final in 2020). For the first time, the Cup/Champions League final in Portugal will be played outside the capital - the previous three matches were played in Lisbon.

 

4. Chelsea under Tuchel won both matches with Manchester City - in the semi-finals of the FA Cup (1-0) and in the championship (2-1).

 

5. Chelsea will play their second final in two weeks and their 22nd final in 18 years under Roman Abramovich.

 

 

6. Chelsea reached the final of the European Cup for the seventh time. The Blues suffered their only defeat in 2008 against Manchester United on penalties.

 

7. This is Chelsea's third Champions League final since the 2007/2008 season. Only Real Madrid (4) and Bayern Munich (4) have played in more Champions League finals during this period.

 

8. Chelsea reach the final of a major tournament for the first time in history for five consecutive seasons (2017 and 2018 FA Cup, 2019 League Cup and Europa League, 2020 FA Cup, 2021 FA Cup and League champions).

 

9. Manchester City are the ninth English side to reach the Cup/Champions League final. This is three more than the closest pursuers - Germany and Italy (six each). But only one of the last 10 teams to compete in their first final ever won it. It was Borussia Dortmund that beat Juventus 3-1 in 1997. Aston Villa were the last English team to win their first final in 1982 when they beat Bayern.

 

10. Chelsea and Manchester City met in the Premier League in early May (the Blues won 2-1). For the first time since 2013, the two teams will face off in a European Cup final in the same month they played in a league game. The last time it was Bayern and Borussia Dortmund. They then drew 1-1 in the Bundesliga and then won 2-1 at Wembley in the Champions League final.

 

 

11. Chelsea have won their last two matches against Manchester City in all competitions. The last time the Blues defeated the Citizens in three or more games in a row was between 2005 and 2009. Then the Londoners beat Manchester City eight times in a row.

 

12. In European competition, Chelsea and Manchester City have met only once before - in the semi-finals of the 1970/1971 Cup Winners' Cup. Chelsea won both matches 1-0 and reached the final, where they beat Real Madrid after a replay.

 

13. Both Chelsea and Manchester City have conceded just four goals in the Champions League this season. For the first time since the 2005/2006 season, both teams participating in the final have four or fewer goals conceded in the entire tournament. Then Arsenal conceded two goals to the final, and Barcelona four.

 

14. Manchester City have won 11 Champions League matches this season. In the event of a victory over Chelsea, the "citizens" will equal the record of "Real" - 12 matches in the 2001/2002 season.

 

15. It has been 51 years since Manchester City last played in a European Cup final. In the final of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1970, the "citizens" defeated "Gornik" from Zabrze with a score of 2: 1. Manchester City broke the record for the longest gap between finals for one team. Prior to this, Sporting owned the record: the Portuguese had a pause of 41 years between the Cup Winners' Cup final (1964) and the UEFA Cup final (2005).

 

 

16. Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola could win his third Champions League trophy. He previously won in 2009 and 2011 with Barcelona. Pep will become only the third manager to win the Champions League three times, after Carlo Ancelotti (2003, 2007, 2014) and Zinedine Zidane (2016, 2017, 2018).

 

17. During his coaching career, Guardiola suffered the most defeats in all competitions against Chelsea (7).

 

18. Tuchel became the first manager to reach the Cup/Champions League final in two consecutive seasons with different clubs. A year ago, the German specialist headed PSG and lost to Bayern.

 

19. Tuchel became the third manager to lose the final in two consecutive seasons, after Marcello Lippi (1997 and 1998, Juventus) and Hector Cooper (2000 and 2001, Valencia).

 

20. Phil Foden of Manchester City will be 21 years and one day old at the time of the final. He could become the third youngest Englishman to reach a Champions League final after Bayern's Owen Hargreaves (20 years, 123 days) in 2001 and Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold who played in 2018 and 2019.

 

 

21. Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy has kept eight clean sheets out of 11 Champions League matches this season. Only two goalkeepers could not miss in nine meetings of one season - Santiago Canizares (Valencia, in the 2000/2001 season) and Keylor Navas (Real Madrid, in the 2015/2016 season).

 

22. Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne and Riyad Mahrez scored in the quarter-finals and semi-finals of this season's Champions League. The last time two players scored for the same team was in the quarter-final, semi-final and final of a single Cup/Champions League competition in the 1959/1960 season - Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas of Real Madrid.

 

23. In September 2018, Bernardo Silva from Manchester City lost to Lyon - 1:2. After that, the Portuguese was unbeaten with his team in 26 Champions League matches (23 wins, three draws). This is the longest unbeaten streak in tournament history. Foden is second in the longest streak, having gone unbeaten in 21 consecutive matches (18 wins, three draws) since losing to Basel in March 2018.

 

24. Chelsea defender Thiago Silva was in the Champions League final last season with PSG. The Brazilian could become the fifth player to play in the final twice in a row with different teams after Marcel Desailly (1993 Marseille, 1994 AC Milan), Paulo Souza (1996 Juventus, 1997 Borussia Dortmund), Samuel Eto'o ( 2009 Barcelona, ​​2010 Inter) and Alvaro Morata (2014 Real Madrid, 2015 Juventus).

 

 

25. If Sergio Aguero plays in the final, it will be his last match for Manchester City. The Argentine has scored 13 goals against Chelsea for the Citizens. But he has not scored in any of his last four matches against the Blues since a hat-trick in February 2019.

 

26. Ilkay Gundogan is the only current Manchester City player who has already participated in the Champions League final (his Borussia Dortmund lost to Bayern in 2013).

 

27. Madrid is the venue for the second English UEFA Champions League final. Tottenham Hotspur will take part in the final for the first time in their history at this stage, while Liverpool will try to forget the pain of losing to Real Madrid in the 2018 season.

 

28. Both teams were able to make impressive semi-final comebacks to reach the Estadio Metropolitano, home of Atlético Madrid. Each of the finalists managed to go further and rehabilitate after three missed goals. While Liverpool won 4-0 in their second match against Barcelona at Anfield to go 4-3 on aggregate, Lucas Moura's hat-trick at the Johan Cruyff Arena gave Spurs the opportunity to beat Ajax from score 3:2 in Amsterdam.

 

29. Liverpool are aiming to claim their sixth European title - and celebrate their second UEFA Champions League triumph since their memorable comeback in Istanbul against AC Milan in 2005, while Tottenham have never made it to the final before. In fact, Spurs' only semi-final before this season came in 1961/62, and their best previous UEFA Champions League campaign, in 2010/11, ended in the round of 16.

 

 

30. There have been six UEFA Champions League finals between clubs from the same country, all since 2000. Real Madrid have won all Spanish finals: in 2000 (Valencia), 2014 and 2016 (both Atlético), while Milan beat the Italian opponent Juventus on penalties. Also in 2003, Bayern Munich defeated Borussia Dortmund in the 2013 all-German final.

 

31. The only previous English final was at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium in 2008, when Manchester United beat Chelsea 6-5 on penalties after regular and extra time ended 1-1.

 

32. Tottenham will be the eighth English club to appear in a European Cup final, more than any other country; Italy and Germany are next on the list with six finalists.

 

33. Real Madrid have scored the most goals - 439

 

34. And conceded the most with 231 goals

 

35. Porto has suffered the most defeats - 51

 

 

36. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Nicolas Anelka, Javier Saviola each played for 6 different teams

 

37. Ryan Giggs is the player with the most Champions League appearances (19 draws)

 

38. Iker Casillas played the most minutes (13,450)

 

39. Raul is the fielder with the most game minutes (11,999)

 

40. Thierry Henry misses most penalties (5)

 

41. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and David Luiz retired the most - 4 times

 

42. Marco Balotta - the oldest goalkeeper (43 years and 253 days)

 

43. Cristiano Ronaldo is the player with the most wins in a row (14)

 

 

44. Peter Ofori-Kvaie is the youngest scorer (17 years and 195 days)

 

45. Arsene Wenger is the coach with the most appearances (19 draws)

 

46. Carlo Ancelotti has coached the most teams (6)

 

47. Alex Ferguson is the manager with the most Champions League appearances (190)

 

48. Arsene Wenger is the manager with the most defeats (49 matches)

 

49. Real Madrid (winner of the 2013/2014 season) with the most goals per match (3.15)

 

50. Total played 2533 matches in the Champions League

 

 

On November 20, 1902, the editor of the newspaper L'Auto, Henri Desgrange, and the journalist Géo Lefebvre, dined in one of the Parisian cafes. Their conversation turned to the then-famous cycling race along the route Paris - Brest - Paris. These competitions were sponsored by the newspaper Le Petit Journal, which gave it good publicity and new subscribers.

Suddenly, Geot Lefebvre asked the editor - why not organize your own bike race? After all, Henri Desgrange was a famous cyclist in his youth, the owner of several records in races of 50 and 100 kilometers, as well as 100 miles. Desgrange liked the idea, and in the summer of next year the first Tour de France cycling race took place, which then became the most prestigious competition for professional cyclists.

Already the first competition brought the newspaper "L'Auto" an unprecedented increase in popularity. During the Tour alone, the number of subscribers grew from 25,000 to 65,000. Moreover, the circulation of the newspaper only increased with each competition. Currently, the history of the Tour de France has more than 100 years. Races were not held only during the First and Second World Wars. Naturally, many interesting events have happened on the Tour de France over the years.

The race consists of 21 stages, each of which takes one day. During this time, participants overcome a total of 3-4 thousand kilometers. The record for the length of the race was set in 1926, when the athletes covered 5745 km. This is approximately equal to the distance from Paris to Omsk.

In the early years of the competition, racers carried with them all the tools and spare parts needed for repairs. They tried to fix the breakdowns right on the highway or went to the nearest settlement in search of, for example, a blacksmith. Indeed, in order for participation in the stage to be counted, the cyclist needs to reach the finish line.

The real legend of the Tour de France was the American cyclist Lance Armstrong, who was able to win a record number of races - seven. But, in 2013, the athlete admitted to doping. Adding at the same time that otherwise it was simply impossible to win such a number of victories. Armstrong was stripped.

Bemorepanda collected more interesting facts below.

1. The Tour de France has been held since 1903. It was originally an advertising project for the newspaper L'Auto (an ancestor of L'Équipe). Another newspaper, Le Petit Journal, had a Paris-Brest-Paris cycle race.  Already after the first edition of the race, the number of subscribers increased from 25 thousand to 65, and in 1908 it exceeded 250 thousand. In 1933, a record 854,000 copies a day were sold during the race.

2. At first, the "Great Loop" (the second name of the "Tour de France") was a six-stage race with a length of 2428 km. For more than a century of history, it was not carried out only during the wars - World War I (1915-1918) and World War II (1940-1946).

3. The first winner of the Tour de France was the former chimney sweep Maurice Garin, who won the first stage and the last two. At the finish line in Paris, he was greeted by a cheering crowd, and the fee was 6075 gold francs.

4. Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hino, Miguel Indurain and Eddy Merckx have won the Tour de France more often than others - five times each. Seven victories in a row on account of Lance Armstrong, but he was later disqualified.

5. In 1969, Eddy Merckx set a unique record by winning the general classification, as well as mountain and points.

6. Briton Chris Froome has won the Tour de France four times, but has missed the race for the second year in a row. In June 2019, Froome was seriously injured and took a long time to recover. This year he plans to start in the Vuelta a España.

7. The most prestigious multi-day event has four classifications. Each has its own jersey. Yellow jersey - for the leader of the general classification. It has been used since 1919. The color matches the color of the pages of the newspaper that founded the Tour de France.

8. The green jersey belongs to the rider with the most sprint points. They have been accrued according to the system determined by the organizers since 1953. Points can be earned at the end of the flat stages and intermediate sprint finishes. Each stage has its own coefficient.

9. Only four times in history has a Tour de France winner won the points classification. Eddy Merckx did it three times, and Bernard Hinault once. Peter Sagan won the green jersey more often than others - seven times. Eric Zabel was the top scorer six times.

10. The mountain king wears a pea jersey. It was introduced in 1975, although the best mountain racer has been awarded since 1933. The unusual coloring comes from the T-shirt's first sponsor, a French chocolate manufacturer that sold it in white packaging with red dots.

11. Mountain classification is considered the most difficult to predict on the Tour de France. The winner is the one who scored the most points at the finishes of the mountain stages or intermediate mountain finishes. Mountains have their own categories. The steeper and longer the mountain, the more points are given for it.

12. White jersey - best young rider trophy. It has been played since 1975 among those who, on January 1 of the year of the race, were not 25 years old. There have been five occasions in the history of the Tour de France when one rider has won both the white and yellow jerseys. Such success has been achieved by Laurent Fignon (1983), Jan Ulrich (1997), Alberto Contador (2007), Andy Schleck (2010) and Egan Bernal (2019).

13. Colombian Egan Bernal (Ineos) is the youngest winner of the Tour de France in the last 100 years. He won the Big Loop at the age of 22 years 196 days. Younger were only Henri Cornet (19 years and 355 days) in 1904 and Francois Faber (22 years 187 days) in 1909. In addition, Bernal is the first South American winner.

14. Bernal put on the yellow jersey of the leader in the 19th stage, shortened due to weather conditions. It is clear that he also got the white jersey of the best young rider. “My father could not utter a word at first, but when he got over it, he congratulated me, almost crying. For us, this is a dream. We used to watch the Tour de France on TV, we thought it was something unattainable. As a child, you think: "How cool it would be to be there one day." But it looked so far away. And here we are.

15. The winner of the mountain classification was Romain Bardet (France, AG2R), points - Peter Sagan (Slovakia, Bora-Hansgrohe). Ilnur Zakarin took 51st place. Leading 14 days Julian Alaphilippe finished fifth.

16. Due to the pandemic, the 107th start of the Great Loop was postponed by two months. The route, approved back in 2019, passes only through the territory of France. It consists of 9 flat stages, 6 mountain stages, 5 mid-mountain stages and one time trial. The total length of all stages is 3484 kilometers.

17. The 2020 Tour de France has 19 world tour teams and three pro-continental teams. Each has eight cyclists, totaling 176.

18. The most experienced rider in the 2020 Tour de France is Spaniard Alejandro Valverde, who took part in this race 12 times. He is also the oldest - 40 years 127 days.

19. In addition to last year's winner Egan Bernal (Team INEOS Grenadiers), Primož Roglič (Jumbo - Visma), Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-hansgrohe), Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic), Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Merida), Thibault Pino (Groupama - FDJ), Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-First), Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo - Visma), Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo), Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo), Miguel Lopez (Astana), Tadej Pogacar ( UAE Team Emirates).

20. During one Tour, teams use about 42,000 cycling bottles. It is noteworthy that many of them are thrown to the side of the road, and viewers can get not only a memorable, but also a useful souvenir.

21. Eddy Merckx has been on the podium the most times. 37 times the Belgian became the winner of the stages.

22. The Tour de France is often referred to as "LaGrande Boucle", which means "big loop", and marks the route encircling France around.

23. The average cyclist burns about 124,000 calories during the Tour. 252 double cheeseburgers in a month can be eaten by riders at least without harm to their figure.

24. Based on an average cadence of 90 revolutions per minute, then for 3 weeks of the race the cyclist produces 486 thousand revolutions of the pedals.

25. Up until the 1960s, it was considered normal practice to drink an alcoholic drink after a race to numb muscle pain. Soon alcohol was banned, as it was considered a stimulant.

26. About 12 million spectators line the tracks of the Tour de France to watch the graceful cycling. This makes the "big loop" the biggest sporting event in the world!

27. In 1919, only 10 people reached the finish line - the smallest number for the entire duration of the race.

28. During the Tour, cyclists do not rest a day from the bike. Even on "weekend" days, they pedal for at least 2 hours to disperse the lactic acid and stay focused on the race. They must have really good bike saddles.

29. The smallest gap in the general standings was recorded in 1989. Then the American Greg LeMond was ahead of his French colleague Lauren Fignon by 8 seconds. A journey of 21 days and only 8 seconds of separation. Brutal sport.

30. Five-time Tour de France winner Bernard Hinolt once said an interesting phrase: “A beginner should think very carefully before attempting to ride one stage of the Tour. Two stages will obviously require a visit to the doctor, and after three you will need a psychiatrist. If more, be sure to make sure that the rider has made a will.”

31. The total prize money of the Tour de France is $4.3 million.

32. Three and a half billion viewers watch the Tour de France at least once on TV each year.

33. The peloton wears out a total of 790 tires in a three-week race.

34. In the early years, riders had 14 rest days instead of the current two. Then the stages very often ended at night, and the cyclists needed a day to recover.

35. The winner of the 1947 Tour, Jen Robick, is famous for stuffing himself full of canteens of water at the top of the mountain in order to descend faster. Cunningly.

36. Eddy Merckx has worn the yellow jersey for the longest time - 96 days over several years.19. The very first Tour de France winner was Maris Garin. In 1904 he repeated his success, but was later disqualified for fraud. At one of the stages, Maris used the train to win in the Alps. About times, about customs. Looks like he didn't use a bike bag.

37. The maximum average speed at the stage was recorded in 2005 - 41.36 km / h. For example, in 1919 the average was only 24 km/h. Although this is a good indicator, you will agree.

38. In the early years of the Tour de France, riders rode bikes without derailleurs. In extreme cases, they were allowed to manipulate the chain, but they did not give much effect. In 1910, when difficult mountainous sections appeared on the track, it became clear that gear shifting was indispensable.

39. At the dawn of the history of the Tour de France, cyclists were "self-service" - namely, they carried all the necessary spare parts and tools for repairs with them (and don't even try to imagine how much all this stuff weighed, which had to be pulled uphill without changing gears ). Of course, they also produced themselves in haste. If the breakdown could not be fixed alone and quickly, the participant dropped out of the race. There is a well-known story of an Englishman by the name of Christophe, who led the races three times, but eventually lost, as he broke his fork and was forced to look for a forge on foot.

40. The heaviest participant in the Tour de France was the Swedish rider Magnus Wakstedt, who weighed 94 kg and received the nickname Big Maggy for this. And the Frenchman Jean Robich, who, due to his slender physique, would have been more suitable for the role of a jockey than a cyclist (with a height of 161 cm, he weighed 60 kg), carried with him two bottles of water, where he added lead. Thus, the rider increased the weight and more or less equalized his chances with his rivals on the descents. He won the Tour de France in 1947. WADA did not exist then, and lead was not considered doping.

41. Speaking of doping. Until the early 1960s, Tour de France participants were allowed to drink alcohol right during the races (ether was also used for pain relief during exertion). Then a law was passed banning stimulants, and the former courage left the race - but not everyone. For example, when the British athlete Tom Simpson in 1967 felt ill at the 13th stage of the competition and died a few hours later, the doctors found that the man was "charged" with a cocktail of alcohol and drugs.

42. By the way, the most titled participant in the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, who won seven victories, lost all awards in 2012 by decision of the US Anti-Doping Agency.

43. The first winner of the Tour de France, Maurice-Francois Garin (1904 champion), was later disqualified for cheating: as it turned out, he ate food from one of the cars, which was against the rules.

44. It has been established that the average Tour de France rider spends 4-5 thousand kcal at each stage and almost 124 thousand kcal in total (that's about 252 double cheeseburgers), and then they lose such a volume of fluid that is equivalent to 39 trips to the toilet. Between rides, cyclists don't rest, riding for about 2 hours a day to flush lactic acid from the muscles and maintain focus.

45. Cyclist Miguel Indurain, who won the Tour de France five times in a row, has unique physiological features: his pulse is 28 beats per minute (at a rate of 60-70 beats), his lung capacity is 8 liters (with an average volume of 6 liters), and the circulatory system pumps 7 liters of oxygen per minute (for an ordinary person - 3-4 liters, and for other professional cyclists - 5-6 liters).

46. During the existence of the "Tour de France" it has acquired organizational traditions. For example, an advertising caravan usually rides in front of cyclists - cars from which food and souvenirs are distributed to the audience (alas, cases of death of freebie hunters under the wheels of these cars are known). 

47. The organizers are trying to lay out the route in such a way that it runs through little-known settlements and attracts tourists there, and with them profit for local residents. Every year, among the spectators, "loop hooligans" are hiding - people who, for some reason, cannot stand bicycles, cycling races, and specifically the Tour de France. They try to arrange different antics, interfering with the racers. Every year, up to 100-120 people find themselves behind bars in the police station because of this.

48. Cyclist Miguel Indurain, who won the Tour de France five times in a row, has unique physiological characteristics.

49. If the pulse of an ordinary person is 60-70 beats per minute, Indurain's figure at the peak of his career was 28. 

50.His lung capacity is 8 liters, while the average volume is 6 liters. His circulatory system pumped 7 liters of oxygen per minute at a rate of 3-4 liters for an ordinary person and 5-6 liters for professional cyclists.

If you are an active person and you like to test your limits every time, accepting challenge after challenge, it's time to move to the hard category of sports. Specifically, in boxing. Besides the fact that it tones your body very well and improves your physical endurance, boxing is a great training for the mind as well.

 

And if you want to better discover such an activity and test it properly, we have prepared below a guide dedicated to boxing: what this sport involves, why you should start it, but also what is the equipment appropriate.

 

Boxing came from England between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which was worn barefoot, making it a very brutal and violent sport.

 

 

A few years later this sport began to be regulated, especially in 1867 with the formulation of Queenberry rules.

 

Boxing has always been an Olympic sport, not only present at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, as the sport was banned in the country.

 

Over the years, numerous boxing variants have appeared, of which the most famous are Thai Muay Thai and French Savate, which already use their feet.

 

What is boxing?

 

As you probably already know, boxing is the sport in which two opponents fight in a ring, using their fists (covered by special gloves). It is also important to note that in order to face each other, the two boxers should have similar weights so that they have equal chances in the ring. This is also the reason why there are several weight categories (from 49 to 91 kilograms, in general) in boxing, the competitions being organized according to this criterion, but also depending on the age of the athletes (seniors and juniors).

 

A match ends when one of the boxers is knocked out (KO) by his opponent, ie when he is knocked down and no longer manages to get in the ring in the time indicated by the referee, which counts up to ten. The match is over even when one of the fighters is too injured to continue the fight, in which case we are talking about technical knockout (TKO).

 

In the situation where we do not have KO or TKO, the winner of the match is the one who receives from the jury the most points for the given blows.

 

What are the benefits of boxing?

 

If you want to start a new sport, but you still don't realize which would suit you better, take a look below, because there are great chances to find your inspiration. The list of benefits that boxing has on the body and brain are significant.

 

Boxing works all your muscle groups. A cardio workout, which greatly develops your endurance in sports, boxing can improve your physical condition, moving all areas of the body. Although you would be tempted to think that it gives results rather at the top of the torso, the box works very well and the legs: you have to move quickly, keep your balance and stability very well, but also react with agility in every moment. The outcome? A well-toned body;

 

Boxing burns calories. Along with running and cycling, boxing is one of the best cardio workouts you can do, because it helps burn calories fast (on average, we're talking about 13 calories per minute), while sculpting your body;

 

Contributes to improving cardiovascular health. Every punch you punch helps to contract the muscles, it's a complete and complex physical effort. Therefore, due to the fact that all the muscles of the body are used during training, and the heart is forced to work at maximum speed and to pump at a fast pace the blood that ensures the transport of oxygen in the body. And because the heart is trained in turn, the risk of cardiovascular disease will be low;

 

 

Boxing improves coordination. Synchronization between eyes, hands and feet is the key to success in this sport. Boxing helps you maintain your balance, positions, stability, not to be unbalanced immediately in case of sudden movements;

 

Boxing also teaches you to learn self-defense techniques. Yes, another advantage of this sport is that it helps you practice self-defense movements, which can catch you very well if, at some point, you have to defend yourself from someone who threatens you or puts you in life threatening and physical integrity;

 

It helps you relax and reduce stress. Boxing requires all your attention, so when you enter the ring, you will focus only on your fighting movements. In addition, you always have a partner who keeps you alert and prevents you from thinking about anything else. Thus, you will forget about daily worries, but, at the same time, you will stimulate through movement the production of serotonin, the hormone that contributes significantly to your well-being.

 

What is the boxing equipment?

 

If you have decided to start boxing and you really want to keep training for a long time, it would be recommended to invest in a suitable equipment.

 

First of all, you will need appropriate clothing and footwear, which will allow you to move at ease and be able to make any movement without problems. In terms of clothing, you can opt for a pair of shorts and a cotton T-shirt or T-shirt (which does not fit on the body, does not tighten).

 

When it comes to footwear, choose a pair of comfortable sports shoes with non-slip soles, which will give you safety and stability in the ring.

 

In addition to the boxing outfit, you will also need the basic accessories of this sport: boxing gloves. Orient yourself towards a model that fits the shape and size of your hands, that has a protective layer with a role in mitigating the impact of blows. Also, for practicing the movements, the boxing palms are very useful, which are attached to the palm of the work teammate and are used for training.

 

 

Also in the category of useful accessories for boxing are special bandages for this sport, made of a soft fabric in order to cover and protect any wounds on the hands. And if you want to exercise your endurance and improve your physical condition, it wouldn't hurt to have a rope in your equipment.

 

The last, but not the last piece needed for training is the punching bag. It must be fastened with a hook to a ceiling or a strong beam. Hit it with correctly executed movements, focusing, first of all, on the technique instead of the hitting force.

 

The best training tips

 

Whether you want to do performance boxing or simply exercise and tone your body with this sport, there are a few tricks you should keep in mind before you start:

 

There are several styles of boxing (swarmer, slugger, etc.) from which you can choose, so if you want to perform in the field, it would be good to choose the right one for you and practice as much as possible;

Even if you do not want to become a professional boxer, it is important to seek the help of a coach who will show you how to execute the shots correctly, so that you can take full advantage of the benefits of this sport and not get hurt;

 

Don't expect it to come out right away! You won't hit accurately and you may not be able to stop your opponent's attacks, but that shouldn't discourage you. Practice, practice and practice again, until you get into the rhythm;

 

Make friends with the treadmill and skipping rope. Warming up is very important before boxing training, so never skip this essential step, which prepares your body for an intense movement session;

 

Watch out for the laces. No, it's not a joke, but a very good and practical piece of advice: make several knots, to make sure they stay connected. Often, while jumping rope or fighting in the ring, the laces tend to unravel. Squeeze them responsibly from the beginning, so as to prevent possible injuries.

 

That being said, if you want to try a new sport that not only works your physique, but also helps your psyche, boxing is one of the best options. Choose a gym where you can train, put on your gloves and get to work!

 

Weight categories

In order for the fights to be as fair as possible, the boxers are divided into weight categories. Thus, each boxer fights only with another boxer with a similar weight to him, making the fights much more correct and balanced.

 

The weight categories for men are as follows:

Light Fly - 48 pounds

Fly - 51 pounds

Rooster - 54 pounds

Value - 57 pounds

Lightweight - 60 pounds

Light medium - 64 pounds

Average value of - 69 pounds

Average - 75 pounds

Average weight - 81 pounds

Weight - 91 pounds

Super weight - + 91 pounds

 

How to train boxing at home?

 

Although you can train very well at home, we strongly recommend that you turn to a coach to make progress in the best conditions. If you are a beginner, it is a mandatory requirement to avoid the wrong skills, especially the technical ones.

 

Instead, home training is a good supplement to:

 

-Adding new training sessions to club meetings;

-Returning the movement in the rhythm of your skills or well-defined techniques;

-Intensification of certain aspects of the practice that you consider insufficient during the regular training period (eg cardio, physical training).

 

Boxing is one of the most popular sports in the world. Millions of people have flocked over the years to watch live matches in the sport considered "noble art", and names like Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather and Evander Holyfield will forever remain in the history of the sport. . In the next article we will show you what the blows allowed in boxing matches are.

 

 

Millions of people are drawn to knowledge and want to know more. But when it comes to complex graphs and numbers, we tend to ignore the information. And as soon as it comes to statistics, we remember the boring lessons of mathematics and do not pay attention to such facts. But in vain. Do you know that statistical things are much more interesting and entertaining when everything superfluous has been removed from it, leaving only the facts?

 

Reddit users share interesting and entertaining statistics

 

We at Bemorepanda have collected interesting statistics that are related to different things in our world. And we think that it will be more interesting for you to learn about them than to watch the next series on the Internet.

 

1. About pilots

56% of pilots admitted to falling asleep in the cockpit.

 

Not only that, 29% of the pilots who woke up afterwards found that the other pilot was also asleep.

 

2. About walking

The average moderately active person takes about 7,500 steps a day. If a person maintains this average per day and lives to be 80 years old, they will walk 216,262,500 steps in their lifetime.

 

3. About names

Sofia and Alexander are the most popular names in Moscow. Unfortunately, there are no statistics for all of Russia by name. Available only in the USA. Mary and James are the most popular names in the United States for the past 100 years.

 

4. About work

85% of people don't like their job. This is the world average. In some countries, this figure is slightly better - for example, in the US, somewhere around 70% hate their job.

 

5. About the Vietnam War

More US veterans who fought in Vietnam committed suicide than died in the war. — Fewwordsbetter / Reddit

 

6. About cats

80% of orange striped cats are male. — kitkat_pro / Reddit

 

7. About seat belts

Wearing a seat belt correctly reduces the chance of a front-seat passenger being killed in a frontal collision by 45%. Seat belts save lives. People, damn it, buckle up! Also, don't forget that car airbags are more likely to cause injury than prevent it. Especially when seat belts are not fastened. — danthemanning / Reddit

 

8. About movement in space

• Raise your hands and clap your hands.
• Wait one second, then do it again.
• If you could measure the distance between the first and second claps, it would be over 800 kilometers.
• This is because the Earth is moving around the Sun, the Sun is moving around the center of the galaxy, the galaxy is moving through the Virgo Supercluster, and the Virgo Supercluster is racing through the Universe. When you sum up all the speeds and compare the result with the cosmic microwave background (which is the closest we have to a universal frame of reference), it turns out that in one second you, along with the Earth and other space objects in space, moved 800 kilometers.
• In the time it took you to read this, you moved farther in space than you have ever moved in your life. — RamsesThePigeon/Reddit

 

9. About the Chinese

If you take the entire population of our planet and calculate the average person, it turns out that this is a 30-year-old Chinese. — ohazltn/reddit

 

10. About Australia

Australia has more kangaroos than people. — Jiren21 / Reddit

 

For reference: 25 million people and about 50 million kangaroos live in Australia.

 

11. About sharks

Sharks of ancient trees. Sharks are at least 400 million years old, while trees are about 350 million years old.

 

Another fun fact: when it comes to evolution, sharks are one of the most endangered species of marine animals. Thanks to "adaptive radiation", these marine animals are able to effectively mutate, perfectly adapting to a variety of habitat conditions. Adaptive radiation allows you to use new food sources and avoid enemies. As a result of this adjustment, there is an increase in species diversity in a short period of time. Modern sharks evolved as a result of adaptive radiation that occurred during the Jurassic period, about 200 million years ago. One of the newest modern sharks are the hammerhead sharks, which first appeared about 50 million years ago. corvettee01 / Reddit

 

12. About our time and the modern world

By almost every important indicator and statistic, the world today is better suited for a normal life than at any time in the history of mankind. — keenly_disinterested / Reddit

 

13. About animals

The tallest known giraffe (George) was 5.8 meters tall.

 

The largest crocodile ever measured (Lolong) was 6.17 meters long.

 

To get an idea of ​​the size of such a crocodile, think of the tallest giraffe you have ever seen, and then add a little and you have the longest crocodile.

 

Herpetologists agree that there are probably more large long crocodiles in nature. They are just hard to catch to measure. — FlorenceCattleya / Reddit

 

14. About rich people

The top 1% of the world's richest people have more than twice as much money as 6.9 billion people.

 

And the 8 richest people in the world have as much money as the poorest half, 3.6 billion people. — Munninnu / Reddit

 

15. About birthdays

If you are in a group of twenty-three people, there is a 50 percent chance that two of them share the same birthday.

 

If you are in a group of seventy people, this probability rises to 99%. — RamsesThePigeon/Reddit

 

16. About poverty

3-4 billion people in the world earn $2.50 or less a day. — chelseatys/reddit

 

17. About ecology

25% of air pollution in California comes from China. — cOOlio-pasta/Reddit

 

For reference: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that nearly 25 percent of the particulate matter in the skies over Los Angeles on certain days came from China. Some experts estimate that China accounts for a third of all air pollution in California. Experts have found ozone, carbon monoxide, mercury and particulate matter from Asia in the air.

 

18. About USA

America is home to approximately 5% of the world's population, but US prisons hold 25% of the world's total prison population. — Gaarakotq / Reddit

 

19. About heroine mothers

The world record for the number of children born to one mother is 69. She had 16 pairs of twins, 7 triplets and 4 quadruplets. And this record belongs to a Russian woman who lived in the 1700s in the Ivanovo region. — TnekKralc / Reddit

 

20. About the war

3% of all living on Earth in 1939 died in World War II. — paul99501 / Reddit

 

It is important to know and remember: according to the latest estimates, 26,600,000 people died in the USSR alone. This is approximately 13.52% of the total population of Soviet Russia in 1939.

 

21. On the movement of the continents

South America is moving away from Africa at about the same rate as human nails grow. — stickmanDave / Reddit

 

The speed of movement of the continent at the moment is about 20 millimeters per year.

 

22. About water

99 percent of the earth's water is unusable for humans and many other living things—only about 0.3 percent of our fresh water is found in the surface waters of lakes, rivers, and swamps. More than 68 percent of the fresh water on Earth is in ice caps and glaciers, and just over 30 percent is in groundwater.

 

It seems incredible that the water that supports all terrestrial as well as aquatic life on our planet is actually so scarce. With these numbers of statistics comes the realization that we must use this resource very wisely.

 

23. About mosquitoes

It would take about 1.2 million mosquitoes to suck all the blood out of a person, each of which must bite at least once. — pm_me_anythingg_sfw / Reddit

 

24. About the human body

Have you ever wondered how fat disappears from a person? And it doesn’t matter why: from playing sports or from starvation. It turns out that most of it (86%) comes out through breathing. The remaining 14% leave our body through the water in a natural way. — PleiadianJedi / Reddit

 

25. About physics

The size of a dust particle is somewhere between a subatomic particle and the size of our Earth. — reddit.com

 

A subatomic particle is smaller than an atom, and atoms are damn small. So the next time you see a grain of dust, think about how huge it is compared to, for example, the same neutrino, or how small it is compared to our planet.

 

26. About the Sun

It takes about 170,000 years for photons from the core of the Sun to reach the convection zone of the photosphere, where they are ejected further into space. In other words, the sunlight we see is hundreds of thousands of years old. — mattk1017 / Reddit

 

27. About Marriage

If you and your spouse are divorced and one of you (or both) has more than one failed marriage, your marriage has a 93% chance of failure. — reddit.com

 

According to research, the average marriage lasts 7 to 10 years. But in each country, the average duration of modern marriages is different. For example, in the United States, couples have been legally married for 8 years. In Italy, for example, the typical couple stays married for 18 years.

 

28. About playing cards

If you shuffle a deck of playing cards well, you will create a hand that has never been and probably never will be again. This is because there are 8.1x1067 possible layout combinations for 52 cards. It takes more time than our universe exists to roll every possible order of cards. — RamsesThePigeon/Reddit

 

It has been 700 years since playing cards were invented. Since that time, all the cards in the world have been shuffled and laid out approximately less than 1.546X1020 times. Thus, the chances that in one of these shuffles they were shuffled in the same order that you see in your spread is less than 1 in 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (1 in 1047).

 

29. About billionaires

Even though they make up just under 2% of the population, 44% of the richest people in the world live in the US, and they are Jews. — rlrhino7 / Reddit

 

30. About countries

The population of vast Russia is smaller than the population of small Bangladesh. Bangladesh, as of 2022, is home to 165.9 million people. In Russia - 146.1 million people.

 

31. About Earth

Every hour the Earth receives more solar energy than the planet uses in a year. — Redshift_1 / Reddit