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Friday, August 10, 2012

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

The First Marathon

If the Marathon runners run to long and to hard they can or could get Memory loss .

There was a war called the marathon against the Persian army

The first Marathon run was first ran 2500 years ago.



Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Alcibiades Wins The Race

I have been reading about ancient Olympics Chariot Racing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dHjhJkJOfI

Olympic Creed

 The most important thing in the Olympics is not to win but to take part, just like the most important thing in life is not to triumph but the struggle.

Monday, August 6, 2012

Stress Busters

The Olympics

In the Olympics our New Zealand  rowing team has beaten other countries to earn three gold medals. They were earned by three rowing teams. The first one was from Mahe drysdale, because he tried extremely hard and finished it off properly.

The olympics have been very tight with the sprints. The Usain Bolt verse Yohan blake and Tyson Gay.  The Usain bolt is the fastest , because he trained really really hard for this so he could win and he did.


New Zealand is beating Australia in who has the most Medals so far. I don’t think Australia will catch up with us for long because they don’t have much Medals. , because they a far back from us. We have very very strong Athletes.


I hope New Zealand  wins the Olympics. Everybody wants New Zealand to win. Our New Zealand Team says practice practice practice makes perfect. They've worked very hard for this.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

The Medley Relay




Medley Relay is an event in the  Olympics , and is one spectacular  sport. It only has swimming and four different stroke that go in this particular order Backstroke , Breaststroke , Butterfly,and freestyle. For each stroke there is one person.


...The aim of the event is to swim as fast as you can and touch the end with your hand. They have really strict rules about how you do your strokes and whether you actually touch the end with . Like you have to do the right strokes , the right turns at the end of each end.




You need a swimsuit so you can swim, and a swimming cap. The reason why you need a swimsuit and a cap is because no one wants to swim in swim in jeans and a T-Shirt it drags because it drags in  the water and makes you go slow. The cap is for wearing on your head so if you don’t have one on you will go slower because your hair will get stuck in the water.




...You need to be very very fit to go through a whole 50 meter pool without stopping. You need to know how to swim fast and know the stroke that you have to do. Also you need to know how to turn around and touch the end fast so you can win . To be a swimmer you need to have very strong arms ,so you can do nice strong strokes.




... I think this sport is incredible. Because it has four types of strokes and four different people involved in it . I’ve never heard of another sport like this it is amazing.