The Olympics
By Peter Clarke
The First Olympics
• In Ancient Greece in 776 BC, the
first Olympics took place. This
included wrestling, running and
discus throwing.
• Once it had kicked off, it was a really
famous game, taking place every year for
the next 120 years.
The Modern Olympics
• In the 1870s research began into games in
Ancient Greece and they found out about
the Olympic games in Olympia.
• Soon the scientists wanted to recreate the
games so in 1896 in Greece, the first
modern Olympics was held.
• After that, it took place every leap year
from then on.
Beijing 2008
• This year the Olympics was held in Beijing, China. one of Britain’s
best successes was taekwondo with Aaron Cook being a great
player in it. Sadly, he never made it to the finals and so did not have
the chance of getting a medal at all. This disappointed us Brits and
we did not like it one little bit.
• However, Britain had a great success at other sports including
swimming, track running and other stuff (I know STUFF isn’t a
technical term, but it is the best word I can use to describe things
(Ok, I don’t know any other events Britain was good in (I am such a
durbrain!!!))) Oh, Britain came 3rd in the medal table, which is the
best we’ve ever done so we have very puny little weaklings in our
country!!!
The 2012 Olympics
How old are you? Are you very sporty?
Will you be 16 or older in 2012? If so
you may be in with a chance of going to
the 2012 Olympics in London
• (Oh by the way terms and conditions do
apply.)
Epilogue
• So, there is a PowerPoint about the
Olympics ( I hope you liked it) and so
basically the message is that the Olympics
are really cool!
• BYE!!!!!!!