March 24

Summer Olympics 2012

As some of you might know coming up this summer is the 2012 Summer Olympics! The Olympics will be held in London, England from July 27th to August 12th. The torch relay will be starting in Greece and will go around the world, a total of around 8000 people will carry the torch.

It seems that every time I turn on the Olympics on TV, beach volleyball is always on. Does this ever happen to you? Some of the other sports taking place are basketball, swimming, archery, football, gymnastics and many,many more. There are a total of 26 sports going on in  the  Olympics.

There are two mascots whose names are Wendlock and Mandeville. They are two drops of steel from Steelworks in Bolton.

Some of the best athletes that have participated in the Summer Olympics are Micheal Phelps who is a swimmer from the U.S, Usain Bolt who is a runner from Jamaica and many, many more. Below is a video of Usain’s world record 9.58 seconds on 100 meter race!

Canada is pretty good in the Summer Olympics , but they particapate much better in the Winter Olympics because they have the right weather to practice in.

Canada has won a total of 260 medals since 1990 and I hope  they win more this year!

Thanks for reading!

Nicholas and Kevin

 


Posted March 24, 2012 by nickjv6 in category 2011-2012 Posts

2 thoughts on “Summer Olympics 2012

  1. Ash Class

    Hello from England! We are Ash Class from Greenfields primary School, which is based in a beautiful town called Shrewsbury. We saw your blog post and thought we’d let you know that we’re really excited about the London Olympics too! Next term, we’ll be learning all about the Olympics and we can’t wait – our teacher, Mr Kenyon, even has tickets (he’s got them for Judo and Table Tennis – we don’t think they were his first choice!).

    We’ll come back soon to see what else you’ve been up to. Our blog address is http://www.ashclassgreenfields.blogspot.com
    Over the Easter holidays, we have a project to create something to do with the Olympics – some of us are making presentations, some are doing artwork and some are perhaps going to build a model Olympic stadium or design the gold medal! We’ll put it all on the blog once it’s done! 🙂
    It’d be great to hear back from you,
    Ash Class.

    Reply
    1. missb

      Dear Ash Class,
      How wonderful it is to hear from you…so far away! Your teacher is lucky to even have tickets to the Olympics! How exciting. We hope you blog about it when it happens! Table tennis could be
      very exciting–you never know! lol.
      We can’t wait to see your finished creations up on the blog. We’ll be sure to leave comments.
      Take care!
      Room 21

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