Choose an issue affecting the Beijing Olympics

Every 4 years a special game is held called "THE OLYMPICS". This year china will take a special part in holding it. I will discuss in this speech are certain issues that will have an effect in the Beijing Olympics. I will discuss three main issues that will effect the Beijing Olympics are the unpurified water, the heavy air pollution and my last issue is the political issue regarding the freeing of Tibet.

China air pollution is classified as 1 of the world’s worst. Air pollution is dangerous to our health. Air pollution is harmful to our delicate lungs and can cause untimed death. If people go to china for the Olympics the polluted air may affect the health of many tourists.

Another issue is the unpurified water. The unpurified water can be harmful to our health. It is also harmful to china's beautiful environment it can also harm and kill the animals and plants in china. The water pollution will affect many people who go to Beijing for the Olympics as they have to remember that drinking tap water may not be wise as it can make them sick.

My last issue that I will discuss is the current political issue that is happening... FREE TIBET. The issue ‘FREE TIBET’ may impact the decision that people make whether they want to go to the Beijing which is held in China.

These are the main points that I believe that will have a major effect on the Beijing Olympics

Choose one sport that is included in the Beijing Olympics

Shooting

One of the many sports in the olympic games are SHOOTING .

These are the events in the olympics games for SHOOTING.

• 10m air pistol (60 shots) Men
• 10m air rifle (60 shots) Men
• 25m rapid fire pistol (60 shots) Men
• 50m pistol (60 shots) Men
• 50m rifle 3 positions (3x40 shots) Men
• 50m rifle prone (60 shots) Men
• double trap (150 targets) Men
• skeet (125 targets) Men
• trap (125 targets) Men
• 10m air pistol (40 shots) Women
• 10m air rifle (40 shots) Women
• 25m pistol (30+30 shots) Women
• 50m rifle 3 positions (3x20 shots) Women
• skeet (75 targets) Women
• trap (75 targets) Women

Venue for shooting : Beijing Shooting Range Hall

Location: Beijing's Shijingshan District

http://en.beijing2008.cn/cptvenues/sports/shooting/index.shtml

What sports are included in the 2008 Olympics

The olympics games are divided into two seprate parts Summer and winter these games are both summer and winter.

Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo, Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Canoe / Kayak Flat-water, Canoe/Kayak Slalom, Cycling, Equestrian, Fencing, Football, Gymnastics Artistic, Gymnastics Rhythmic, Gymnastics Trampoline. Handball, Hockey, Judo Modern Pentathlon, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Softball, Table Tennis, Tennis, Taekwondo, Triathlon, Volleyball, Beach Volleyball, Weightlifting and Wrestling. These sports are included in the 2008 olympics.

These are the Summer and Winter sports which are being held (taking place) in the Beijing Oylmpic Games this year 2008.

http://en.beijing2008.cn/cptvenues/sports//index.shtml

Research the tradition of the gold, silver and bronze medals

No medals were awarded in the ancient Olympics. A olympic winner would received an olive wreath to wear on his head.The people who came second and third placing would received nothing :(. When the Olympics were revived in 1896 in Athens Greece, winners would received silver medals instead of gold medals. Eight years later, at the 1904 Games in St. Louis, gold replaced silver for first place. Today's gold medals actually are sterling silver covered with a thin coat of gold.

http://www.lycos.com/info/olympics--ancient-olympics.html

Research the history of the Olympic torch

Fireis a sacred symboly dating back to prehistoric times.In ancient greece it symbolized the creation of the world ligth.It was also the sacred symbol of hephaestus,and gift to the human race from promthelas.Who stole it from zeus( Greeks God in olympics).At the centre of every city-state in ancient greece there was an altar with a ever-burning fireand in every home sacred flme burned,deicate to hestia, goodes of the family.Torch relay races started in ancient greece as religious rituals held at nnigth.Soon they turned into a teakm thletic event.For the olympic games the sacrd flame is fit in olmpia by the head piestess,in the same way as in antiquality,and the ritual includes he atheletes oath.The flame is tthen transmitted to the torch of the first runner,and the journey of the torch relay begins cits magic still touching people today.The modern torch relay is a non-cometitive replication of the ancient flame relay symbolic celebration of the olympic game. People have received the torch and have thereby undertaken to preserve and quicken its precious flame lest our youth imporarilly let the olympic torch fall fom their hands other young people on the other side of the world are prepared to pick it up again."

Research the symbolism of the Olympic rings

According to the Olympic Charter, the five-ringed symbol "represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games." Baron Pierre de Coubertin conceived of both the symbol and the flag. Not coincidentally, Coubertin is the founder of the modern Olympic Movement. The Olympic Committee adopted the flag in 1914, and it was first flown at the 1920 Antwerp Games.
While the charter isn't explicit, many believe that the colour of the flag-- blue, black, red, yellow, and green on a white field -- are used because at least one of these colors exists in each of the flags of the nations participating in the Olympics. This may be true; however, the notion that each ring represents a specific continent is not. The five interlocking rings represent the five continents brought together by the Olympic Movement.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games adds an additional layer of symbolism to the flag. Traditionally, eight people carry in the flag. Five of these flagbearers represent the continents, while the other three stand for the Olympic ideals of sport, environment, and culture.

Research the Olympic Motto.

A motto is a phrase which sums up a life philosophy or a code of conduct to follow

.The Olympic motto is made up of three Latin words: "Citius, Altius, Fortius", these words mean "Faster, Higher, Stronger".These three words help encourage the athlete to give Him/Her best during competition, and to view this effort as a victory in itself.The sense of the motto is that being first is not necessarily a priority, but that giving one's best and striving for personal excellence is a worthwhile goal.History The three Latin words became the Olympic motto in 1894, the date of the IOC's creation. Pierre de Coubertin proposed the motto, having borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who taught sport to students.To better understand the motto, we can compare it with the following well-known phrase:

http://www.janecky.com/olympics/motto.html
And for the other part books

Research the beginning of the modern Olympics

When did the modern games begin?

As the Games had a strong non-Christian religious element, and took place around a temple, the Christian Emperor of Rome banned them in 394 AD, after 1170 years of competitions. It would take another 15 centuries before they were held again.
Pierre de Coubertin, a French Baron, believed passionately in the Olympic ideal that even enemies could be united in a sporting competition. He believed that an event such as the Olympics could be used to bring countries closer together to promote peace.Eventually in 1896, the games returned to Greece , as they did again 108 years later.

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. Research the history of the ancient Olympics

The records of the ancient games starts back in 776BC but they were most likely created about hundreds of years before that.The olympics began as a very small event but eventually it gained peoples attention and the population gradually increasea.It soon became a festiveil in Greece for nearly 1000 years.These games would be held every 4 (four) years.The ancient games became very impotant that the Greeks recored events according to the Olympiad or a 4 year period in which they thet took place

These are some of the Ancient Olympic.

Ancient Olympics: Main Sports

Boxing
Discus (part of Pentathlon)
Equestrian Events
Javelin (part of Pentathlon)
Jumping
Pankration
Pentathlon
Running
Wrestling

The pentathlon, which began in the 18th Olympiad, consisted of the 5 (pent-) sports of

1.discus,
2.javelin,
3.long jump,
4.running, and
5.wrestling.