What athletesand sports were in the London 2012 Olympics?

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The History of the Ancient Olympic games

• The Olympic Games begun over 2,700 years ago in Olympia in southwest Greece. The Greek Olympics have to begun in 776 BC, inspired the modern Olympic games (Begun in 1896)

James Naismith invented basketball. James was born in 1861 and died in 1939.

Basketball started at 1968 in the Olympics.Nearly 4000 people participated in London.

USA has won 2 gold medals.Australia won 1 bronze medal.

Basketball

By Kasey and Jhetro

BasketballUSA vs Brazil

United States 2 - - 2

Spain - 1 - 1

France - 1 - 1

Australia - - 1 1

Russia - - 1 1

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London 2012 basketball medal count.

Blossom and Caylens inquiry on canoeing.

The histories of the canoe and the kayak go back hundreds of years, but it wasn’t until the middle of the

19th century that the first official canoe and kayak races were held. At the Olympic Games, the sport now takes

two forms, the older of which is the power-packed, fiercely completive Canoe Sprint discipline – head-to-

head races over still water.

History of Canoe Sprint at the Olympic Games

Canoeing first featured as a demonstration sport at the Paris

1924 Games. It became a full Olympic sport in 1936, when races were held

over distances of 1,000m and 10,000m. Since then, the Olympic

events have shortened: the 10,000m events were last held at the

Melbourne 1956 Games.

Lisa Carrington

The canoe slalom competition will call for speed , control and precision on the daunting white water rapids at the new lee valley white water centre.

In June 2009 Lisa Carrington won a bronze medal at the world cup in , Hungary , competing alongside Teneale Hatton in the women’s k-2 1000 metres event.

Canoeing

The Canoe Sprint 200m race makes its Olympic debut at London 2012.

Lisa Carrington got a gold medal in the canoeing for New Zealand in the 200 meter canoe

Sarah Walker

BMX is a type of off-road bicycle racing.Sarah Walker came 2nd in BMX in 2012 Olympics.

Four years after missing a medal in Beijing, Sarah Walker has won silver in the women's BMX at the London Olympics.

Sarah Walker was inspired to become an Olympian when she was 18.Walker spoke openly of her mental battle to get here, after finishing fourth in Beijing four years ago.

"Going into Beijing I did doubt myself a lot and I didn't really believe I could win or believe I deserved to be on that podium. I've worked a lot over the last two years to build up the confidence and myself and the

belief in myself that I can do this and that I can push myself and to not be afraid of losing."

Sarah WalkerPersonal information

Full name Sarah Louise WalkerNickname Sez

Born 10 July 1988 (age 24)New Zealand

Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)Weight 74 kg (160 lb)

Team informationCurrent team Team NZDiscipline BMXRole RacerRider type Off road

BMX

Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Colombia 1 0 1 22 Latvia 1 0 0 13 Australia 0 1 0 13 New Zealand 0 1 0 15 Netherlands 0 0 1 1

Medal count ›Sarah Walker is an Olympic Silver-medal winning BMX racer who was born in Whakatane, New Zealand, and lives in Kawerau. In the 2008 season UCI Rounds, Sarah won seven races, came 2nd in one race and didn't race two races.

"I could hear them yelling for me, and I knew they were so passionate they just really, really wanted me to win," she said."I could hear almost the hurt in them when I didn't win and also that sympathy. I tried not to think about that today - I didn't want that pressure."I didn't feel like I let them down. They say they're proud of me no matter what. I know they wanted me to have this just as much as I do. It was pretty cool they were here for it.“ Said Sarah.

Medal Winners for Women's BMX

GoldMariana PajonColombiaSilver

Sarah WalkerNew ZealandBronze

Laura SmuldersNetherlands

By Ava and Nathan

diving

Diving made it Olympic debut in 1904, where medals were awarded for men in the 10m Platform and the Plunge for Distance (a Diving long jump event, which never again appeared on the Olympic program). Women’s Diving was introduced in 1912 and Synchrony nized Diving made its first Olympic appearance at Sydney in 2000.`

The diving pool Diving events the pool, or a fixed platform, set at a height of 10m. Springboards must be at least 4.8m long and 50cm wide, while platforms should be at least 6m long and 3m wide.

Diving pool The diving pool is 25m

long and 5m deep. The eight Diving events feature either a springboard, 3m above the pool, or a fixed platform, set at a height of 10m. Springboards must be at least 4.8m long and 50cm wide, while platforms should be at least 6m long and 3m wide.

These are the london Olympic 2012 diving medals.

Gymnastics for girls and boys.

Gymnastics equipment includes bars of varying heights, mats, vaults, pommel horses, balance beams and

trampolines.

gymnastics

The term Artistic Gymnastics was first used in the 19th century. Between its appearance at the Athens 1896 Games and the 1920s, the event evolved into what we recognise as modern Gymnastics.

Shawn Johnson is an American gymnast who won a gold medal

Shawn Machel Johnson (born January 19, 1992) is a retired American artistic gymnast. She was the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and all-around, and floor exercise silver medalist, the 2007 all-around World Champion, and the 2007 and 2008 U.S. all-around champion.

Fencing Each fencer tries to score five touches against his or her opponent within the target area

Valerie Adams won a gold medal for New Zealand

in shot put 2012.

ATHLETICSAthletics it is not one sport it is a lot of sports. Athletes:Emma TwiggNick Willis Valerie AdamsSarah walker Alison shanksMahe Drysdale

Lily and Luca.

Athletics is the perfect expression of the Olympic motto ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’ (‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’) – the competition requires athletes to run faster, throw further, jump higher and leap longer than their rivals. With 2,000 athletes competing in 47 events, Athletics is the largest single sport at the Games.

Lots of people are famous in Athletics but not every one in Athletics. Because some people want to go and have fun and they might winners, And the ones who want to win probably lose.

This is the Athletics logo.

Athletics is lots of sports because you don,t want to have to many different sports in the Olympics. That’s why Athletics is a lot of sports in it. And it might be because you don’t want to say all the sports and there has so many sports.

Athletics is a lot of peoples favourite thing but not every ones. And athletes know that some people are not aloud to watch the athletics or the Olympics .They also know that some hate athletics.

This is the athletics running track on the Olympic ground. GO! NZ.

These are the Olympic leaders.

And they have gold medals.

But are they from nz.

Mahe DrysdaleHeight : 199cm Weight : 100kgAge : 33Gender : male Country : New ZealandSport : RowingBirth date : 19/11/1978Born : Melbourne Australia He has got two sisters and a brotherGrandpa' is his nickname.He practises two or three times a day, six days a week.He started rowing when he was 18 years old.West End Rowing Club is his club.Richard Tonks (NZL) is his coach.He was a Commerce student at University of Auckland.

This is how many medals Mahe Drysdale has won in the 2012 Olympic Games.

RowingMen's Single Sculls

WenlockMandeville

Winners for the men’s single sculls 2012 Olympic games.

1st 2nd 3rdG S B

Mahe Drysdale Ondrej Synek Alan Campbell

NZL GBRCZE

The history of Rowing • The world’s best rowers came to New Zealand in 2010 to compete in the

FISA World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, Waikato. Rowing has evolved over thousands of years from a way to get around on water into a sport with its own rules and disciplines. Competitive rowing came to New Zealand with British settlers, and the first local club was established in 1861. Including the London 2012 Games, 21 of New Zealand’s 103Olympic medals have been won by rowers, the same number as athletics.

By Amie and Mason.

Sailing made its Olympic debut in Paris 1900 with both men’s and women’s competitions. With the exception of St Louis 1904, the sport has appeared at every Olympic Games since.

Ollie and Natalia

Sailing

Sailing (also known as yachting until 1996) has been one of the Olympic sports since the Games of the I Olympiad, held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. Despite being scheduled in the first Olympic program,.

The most successful Olympic sailor of all time is Denmark’s Paul Elvstrom. He won the first of his four gold medals at consecutive Games in 1948, and was still competing in 1988 at the age of 60. August 6, 2012 - Weymouth, England - Peter Burling and Blair Tuke racing in the 49er - Weird as it may seem the thinking is that it is better for them both to come out with a Gold and Silver medal each, rather than go alone and maybe both miss out to the British machine.

2012 London Olympics these are two of the winners of sailing from New Zealand.

VALERIE ADAMS!!! Kiwi star Valerie Adams wants

to be presented with her Olympic gold medal in Europe at a major international athletics meet - "sooner rather than later" - even if that means the ceremony happening in Switzerland before she returns to New Zealand late next month.

Valerie Adams is a kiwi star at shot put. She won a silver mead but then when they tuock the jrug test on the gorle that got gold fownd som jrogs so Valerie Adams got gold.

By Katie and Alex.

History of Boxing at the Olympic GamesSince the first Olympic Boxing competition in St Louis 1904, many of the sport’s biggest names have

come to prominence at the Games: Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali; 1960), George Foreman (1968) and Oscar de la Hoya (1992) have all won Olympic gold in the past.

Find out more about Boxing at the Olympic Games on the International Olympic Committee website.

Boxing has been around for ages

By James and William

London 2012

Holly and Josephs medal work

USA 49 gold

23 bronzesAnd 109 total

medals                                                

The Gold Medal is not made entirely from gold. It must be 92.5% silver and plated with at least six grams of gold. The last time first-place medals were made entirely out of gold was at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.