Olympic Games

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between 24.000 and 49.000 and it’ll costs over

Olympic Games ( London 2012)

600’000.000£.

This year London will make the thirtieth Olympic Games. They’ll start on July the 27th , and they’ll

The Olympic torch is its symbol, and it travels

th

finish on August the 12 . The Olympic Games is

around the world for about a year, this year, it

one of the most important sporty events and it’s

traveled from Greeceto London.

held every four years in summer. The sports arenas are really imposing and the country has invested a lot of money to improve or to build

This year there will 204 countries which will send

them.

their teams to participate. In the event there are 30 Olympic sports, and each

The security of this event is going to be very strict; probably the military mobilization in the United Kingdom will be the biggest since Second World War. The number of soldiers will vary

competition awards three kinds of medals for the best three competitors: Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Olympic sports are: archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, canoe slalom, canoe sprint, cycling – BMX, cycling


– mountain bike, Cycling – road, cycling track, diving, equestrian, fencing, football, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic

gymnastics, handball,

hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, trampoline, triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling. Almost all the countries around the world compete to win as many medals as possible.

But, actually for over ten years, United States, China and Russia have gotten the first three places. The objective for each competitor is not only to get a medal but also to break or to beat the records. There

are

several

sportsmen

and

sportswomen, who are famous for beating too many records or win a lot of medals; Michael Phelps has beaten 37 records at swimming and he has gotten 16 Olympic

UnfortunatelyColombia has gotten only one gold medal, it was gotten by Maria Isabel Urrutia who participated in weightlifting in Sidney 2000. In the

medals. Usain Bolt hasthe recordsfor 100

last event, I mean in Beijing 2008, Diego Salazar

and 200 meters and the 400 meters relay

got one silver medal in the same sport. Colombia

racing, he is called Lightning Bolt. Yelena

has a total of 11 medals in Olympic Games.

Isinbayeva is a Russian PoleVaulter and has the record with 5.06 meters. Most people expect them to win a lot of medals this year.


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You shouldn’t miss this sporty event; you can watch it on TV or listen to it on the radio. It’ll be really exciting.


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