An athlete is a person who competes in sports involving physical strength and endurance. The word "athlete" comes from the Greek word "athlos" or "athlon", meaning contest. Some key facts about athletes are that the human brain cannot hear and process the starting gun of a race in under 0.1 seconds, cheerleading accounts for the majority of catastrophic injuries in girls' high school sports despite representing a small percentage of participants, and parts of the US flag should not be used in athletic uniforms according to code. Athletes compete in sports such as basketball, tennis, cheerdance, cricket, badminton, golf, and volleyball. Famous athletes around the world include [names were not provided in the

1. ATHLETE

2.  What is an Athlete?
- Is a person who compete in sports that
involve physical strength and endurance.
Where does the word athlete came from?
-It came from the Greek word athlos or
Athlon.

3. Facts about:
Athletes
1.)In athletics, if you move as the gun sounds, you have considered having false started as the human brain
cannot hear and process the noise of the starting gun in under 0.10 seconds.
2. Of the United States’ 2.9 million female high school athletes, only 3% are cheerleaders, yet cheerleading
accounts for nearly 65% of all catastrophic injuries in girls’ high school athletics and carries the highest
rate of catastrophic injuries in sports.
3. According to the U.S. Flag Code “The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery”,
and “No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform.”
4. The Dickinson High School (North Dakota) athletic teams are known as “The Midgets”. The school
considered changing the name but the Little People of America stated that they were not offended by it,
influencing the school to keep their traditional mascot.

4. Different sports that an athlete
competes:
Basketball, Tennis, Cheerdance, Cricket, Badminton
Sepak, Golf, Volleyball

5. Famous Athletes Around the world!