Pollution risk for Olympic events

Beijing's has the most filthiest air in all of china.Clogged traffic are known to have worried Beijing organizers and the IOC for some time, but this is Rogge's strongest statement on the subject.People say that Pollution might be one of the mager problems of the be Beijing olympics.However, postponing events might not be an option because race schedules have already been decided, according to Wang Junyan, the director of cycling events for the games.Rogge's comment reminds us that we have to work harder to fix environmental problems.Australian Olympic Committee president, John Coates has already revealed that the country's athletes won't arrive in Beijing until just before the Games begin next August to avoid possible respiratory problems.Otherwise, the IOC said the Chinese have laid "strong foundations" for the Games during Rogge's visit to mark one year until the event kicks off.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/front_page/6934955.stm

Volleyball W-8

Volleyball was quickly spread around the world and became more noticeable in other countries than in the US.The Federation Internationale De Volleyball (F.I.V.B) started 1946.The sport started at the Olympics in 1964 by the Japanese,although it was it was never been referred as a demonstration sport at the Olympics.No country has been truly more power full in volleyball, although the Soviet Union has won the most medals.most of all the Japanese had the world's best women players while the US had the best men's team in the world throughout the 1980s.

http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=VB

the olympic sport W-7

There are many olympic sport
Summer sports:
Aquatics
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
Canoe / kayak
Cycling
Equestrian
Fencing
Football
Gymnastics
Handball
Hockey
Judo
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Softball
Table tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Triathlon
Volleyball
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Winter sport:
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Curling
Ice Hockey
Luge
Skating
Skiing
The IOC decides what is an olympicsport or not and the IOC stands for International Olympic Committee .
http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/index_uk.asp

The Olympic medals W-5

The athletes who participate in the Olympics and are placed either first, second, or third in each and every event that are taken place in the Olympics receive medals. The winners receive a"gold medal" (They had solid gold medal's solid gold until 1912, they are now made of gilded silver.)The runners up get silver medal,and who ever comes third place receives a bronze medal. medals. In some events are judged by a single-elimination. medals. They started awarding medals to the top three competitors ,It was introduced in 1904 ; at the 1896 Olympics only the first two received a medal, silver and bronze. However, the 1904 Olympics they awarded silver trophies for first place. In addition, from 1948 onward athletes placing fourth, fifth and sixth have received certificates which became officially known as "victory diplomas;" since 1976 the medal winners have received these also, and in 1984 victory diplomas for seventh- and eighth-place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Olympic_champions_and_medalists

The modern olympic torch w-5

During the modern Olympic Games in Amstardam Stadium fire was lit in one of the towers in that stadium, but there was no torch relay. The Berlin 1936 summer Olympic Games was witnessed through the first torch relay in the modern Olympics. The History professor, Carl Diem the secretary of the organizating committee of the XI Olympaid in Berlin. He suggested the inclusion of the torch relay in the Olympics. The Olympic torch was lit in Olympia and
Relayed in Greece and it was transported to Berlin via a torch Relay, in 1936 the culdron was lit.

http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/archives/others/n214039826.shtml

TheSymbol of the Olympic Games w:4

The Olympic symbol is made up of five interlaced rings of equal amount of area (the Olympic rings).Each ring has different colours, which are, from left to right, blue,black,red ,yellow and green.The rings are interlace between each different coloured ring.The Olympic symbol represents the activity of the Olympic Movement and represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the OlympicGames.

http://en.beijing2008.cn/46/74/article212027446.shtml

The Olympic motto is ...

The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius." These three words are from Latin meaning "Swifter, Higher, Stronger." Baron de Coubertin borrowed the motto from Father Henri Martin Dideon.He was the director of Arcueil College in Paris. Henri Martin Dideon used the motto to dicribe the athletes.

http://www.janecky.com/olympics/motto.html

Modern olympic games w:2

On April 6TH 1896 king George ,the king of Greece welcomed a crowd of people at the Panathenean Stadium (the first stadium since the modern Olympics started) to announce that the modern Olympics will be held

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/summer-olympics-athens.html

The Ancient Olympic Games w:1

The Olympic games where first held in 776bc,
they originated at least a century before that and possibly as early as the 13th century bc

One Greek legend said that Herakles won a race at olympia (a small state in Elis The race had been said that it will be held every four years.Another said that Zeus himself had originated the festival after defeating Cronus for the excellent of the power of heaven.

There where religious gatherings festivals to celebrate all the gods worshipped in common by all Hellenes, primarily Zeus. There were three other major pan-Hellenic festivals called:the Pythian, the Nemean, and the Isthmia.

The ancient Olympic where allot different from the modern games.

http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olancien.shtml


http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/sports.html