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Beijing host of Olympics pages 9 10
Profile on Olympics sports pages 11-13
Profile on Olympic athletes pages
Did you know the first winter Olympics was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. The five rings represents five continents or major geographical areas of the world.
Every flag of a country participating in the Olympics includes at least one of the following colours: blue, black, red, yellow, and green.
For the Olympics their going to be doing swimming, running, rowing,
Pole vaulting, sprints, shot put, weight lifting, swimming, cycling, target shooting, tennis, marathon and gymnastics were all events at the first Olympics.
The first Olympics were held at Athens in 1896.
In 1988 the Olympics were held at Seoul.
Did you know that The Great Wall Of China is very famous in the whole entire world. There have been lots of world records that have been broken.
The total number of people living in Beijing has reached 15.244 million
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107 million watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing.
Did you know that Shanghai is very popular in china.
There are 5.853 million males and 5.741 million females in Beijing.
Tourism in China has greatly expanded over the last few decades. The
2008 Summer Olympic Games
, officially known as the
Games of the XXIX (Twenty nine Olympiad.
Beijing has approximately 50,000 newborns each year
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A soccer ball looks like this.
To play soccer you will need a ball. And a team and a umpire and a coach.
Soccer is a well known sport.
Girls and Boys can play soccer.
There has been heaps of world cups throughout the year for soccer.
Soccer has a goalie aswell as hockey but the goalie only needs hand gloves.
A Basketball looks like dis.
Basketball is played by girls and boys.
Its best to be tall for basketball so you can reach the hope
What you need to have for volleyball is a team, a ball you can hit with your hands and a net.
You need to have two teams and six players on each side.
He’s one 1 bronze medal and one silver.
His birth place is Ashburton He is a cyclists as well Sahara Elma
She threw the ball over meters!
She like basket ball when she was under 13.
She won gold at the shot putt.
She is a Maori person.
Her favourite ice cream flavour is chocolate.
She trains about six hours a day!
Valerie Vili was world youth shot put champion in 2001.
She was born in 1972 on June the 21 st .