Sports nutrition

Sports nutrition is the study and practice of nutrition as it relates to athletic performance. Although an important part of many sports training regimens, it is most commonly considered in strength sports (for example weight lifting and bodybuilding) and endurance sports (for example cycling, running, and triathlon). Sports nutrition is a science that produces or provides and maintains the food necessary for health and growth dealing with nutrients and nutrition in serious athletes of all sorts who want to make use of nutrition for their benefit. An athlete's nutrition plays a vital part in accomplishing their goals because it allows the athlete to reach their maximum performance. This illustrates how an athlete has to apply the necessary nutrition to benefit the athlete's training and performance in the necessary ways that will affect one in one’s specific sport. There are many different sports that have variation of what is the appropriate diet that is beneficiary to his or her sport. For example, some sports have great stipulation for certain nutrients like proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and supplements in different manners because some sport require you to lose weight, and others require you to gain weight to be able to have you peak at the right time. This also consists of many different concerns such as how much foods and fluids you should consume that are appropriate to your training. What types of foods and fluids you should consume? When to eat and drink through out the day?

Roller hockey (inline)

Inline hockey is a variation of roller hockey very similar to ice hockey, from which it is derived. Inline hockey is played by two teams, consisting of four skaters and one goalie, on a dry rink divided into two halves by a center line, with one net at each end of the rink. The game is played in three 15-minute periods with a variation of the ice hockey off-side rule. Icings are also called, but are usually referred to as illegal clearing. For rink dimensions and an overview of the rules of the game, see IIHF Inline Rules (official rules). Some leagues and competitions do not follow the IIHF regulations, in particular USA Inline and Canada Inline.

Ice hockey

Ice hockey is played on a large flat area of ice, using a three inch (76.2 mm) diameter vulcanized rubber disc called a puck. This puck is often frozen before high-level games to decrease the amount of bouncing and friction on the ice. The game is contested between two teams of skaters. The game is played all over North America, Europe and in many other countries around the world to varying extent. It is the most popular sport in Canada, Finland, the Czech Republic, and in Sweden.
The governing body is the 64-member International Ice Hockey Federation, (IIHF). Men's ice hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924, and was in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Women's ice hockey was added to the Winter Olympics in 1998. North America's National Hockey League (NHL) is the strongest professional ice hockey league, drawing top ice hockey players from around the globe. The NHL rules are slightly different from those used in Olympic ice hockey: the periods are 20 minutes long, counting downwards. There are three periods.
Ice hockey sticks are long L-shaped sticks made of wood, graphite, or composites with a blade at the bottom that can lie flat on the playing surface when the stick is held upright and can curve either way, legally, as to help a left- or right-handed player gain an advantage.
There are early representations and reports of ice hockey-type games being played on ice in the Netherlands, and reports from Canada from the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the modern game was initially organized by students at McGill University, Montreal in 1875 who, by two years later, codified the first set of ice hockey rules and organized the first teams.
Ice hockey is played at a number of levels, by all ages.

Final tournament

The final tournament features the continental champions and other qualified teams. Due to the extension to 20 teams in 2009, the format of the next tournament is not yet known. However, in the recent tournament, the teams divide into pools once more and play a round robin tournament. The composition of the pools is determined using the current world rankings. Unlike the other major field hockey tournament, the Junior World Cup will have two pool stages to be played. Numerous teams will qualify for the second pool phase to form two combination pools. The top two teams in each of the second pool phase play in the semifinals for a place in the final. The bottom two teams in the semifinals have a third place playoff. The rest of the teams have playoffs to determine their final positions.

Hockey Junior World Cup

The Hockey Junior World Cup, is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The tournament was started in 1979. Since 1985 it has been held every four years. Competitors must be under the age of 21 as of December 31 in the year before the tournament is held.
There is also a corresponding event for the women's junior teams. This competition started in 1989 and uses the same format as the men's event.
Five countries have dominated the event's history. Germany is the most successful team, having won the tournament four times. Argentina, Australia, India and Pakistan have each won the tournament once.
The 2005 Junior World Cup was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with Argentina defeating Australia 2–1 in the final. The next tournament in 2009 will be held in Malaysia and Singapore, with the tournament will be expanded to 24 teams.

Format
The Junior Hockey World Cup consists of a qualification stage and a final tournament stage. All the participating teams in the final tournament shall play in the qualification tournament.

Qualification
All the teams wish to qualify for the final tournament play in the relevant continental junior championships. Each continenatal federation receives at least two finals places and the FIH determines which federations will receive additinal places.

Hockey Junior World Cup

The Hockey Junior World Cup, is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The tournament was started in 1979. Since 1985 it has been held every four years. Competitors must be under the age of 21 as of December 31 in the year before the tournament is held.
There is also a corresponding event for the women's junior teams. This competition started in 1989 and uses the same format as the men's event.
Five countries have dominated the event's history. Germany is the most successful team, having won the tournament four times. Argentina, Australia, India and Pakistan have each won the tournament once.
The 2005 Junior World Cup was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with Argentina defeating Australia 2–1 in the final. The next tournament in 2009 will be held in Malaysia and Singapore, with the tournament will be expanded to 24 teams.

Format
The Junior Hockey World Cup consists of a qualification stage and a final tournament stage. All the participating teams in the final tournament shall play in the qualification tournament.

Qualification
All the teams wish to qualify for the final tournament play in the relevant continental junior championships. Each continenatal federation receives at least two finals places and the FIH determines which federations will receive additinal places.

Hockey

Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a puck, into the opponent's net or goal, using a hockey stick.