week 9

Global warming, air pollution, free the Tibetans, will this affect the Beijing Olympic games? the athletes say they are not coming because it is too hot over there, it will be hard to breathe because of the air pollution and they think that they are being too overpowering on the Tibetans and not letting them free. If athletes do not go then the olympics will b ruined. The climate over there is immensely hot and climate is a big deal to the athletes and they intend to get hot and once there too hot they may go unconscious, have heatstroke or even fall to the ground when there playing. Also there is very dirty water there so if the canoers drink some they may get very sick.

week 8

table tennis is a sport in which 2-4 players hit a light weighted ball back and forth to each other with their paddles. the game is on a table which is divided by a net. The players who serves first must bounce the ball on their side of the field and bounce it on the opponents side of the field. to score points the players must keep playing the ball back and forth until someone does not hit it or misses or hits it out or bounce it on there side of there field when not suppose to. the players must score 21 points to win 1 set you must win 5-7 sets to win.

week7

the Olympic games are divided into summer and winter events. the summer and winter games are held every leap year (4 years). they are trying to get 302 events in 28 sports. they have woman and men events.









http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games

week 7

GAMES:

Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
Canoe/Kayak
Cycling
Diving
Equestrian
Fencing
Gymnastics
Hockey
Rowing
Shooting
Softball
Table Tennis



http://www.olympicsports.org.uk/search/label/Football

AN OLD BRONZE MEDAL.

week 6

in the ancient times the were no rich advertising contracts with shoe companies or other deals. the athletes usually competed for pride, patriotism, and religious honor. although some of these athletes were paid with large amounts of money, up to ten times more than a annual salary of soldier. the Olympic winners received an olive tree branch. the branches that the athletes receive is cut from a branch from the backyard of the temple of zues and were supposably planted by Hercules. Sometimes the victor of the games would get a ribbon to put around their head-this would b a temporary prize until the end of the games. info from:http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Olympics/olympics.html

week 6

the winners of the games show the ancient coliseum's and the goddess of victory holding the laurel crowns on the obverse side which is engraved 'XXIVTH Olympiad Seoul. the back side shows a pigeon(the symbol of peace) soaring up holding a laurel branch in its mouth and the Seoul Olympic composed to three Taeguk patterns from the Korean flag and five olympic rings. the medals were manufactured. the gold took up to 92.5% of the content of the gold medal which was gilded with 5 grams or more. it was 60mm in diameter and weighed around 145 grams. the silver took up to 92.5% of the silver medal and the other 7.5% is bronze. it was 60mm in diameter like the gold medal but weighs 5 grams less. the bronze medal contained 95% of bronze, 4% of copper and 1% of copper. it was also 60mm in diameter. info and pic from:http://olympic-museum.de/w_medals/wmed1988.htm