Olympics+2012

media type="custom" key="20411984" This year the Olympics will be held in London England!!!! It is full of excitement for all of the contestants and all of the fans!!!!! Here is the official website for the Olympics London 2012!!!!! The Olympics will start on the 27th of July 2012. There is quite a few sports in the Olympics and this is how many..... 66!!!!!!

Here are some websites that you can check out!!!!!!!! http://www.olympic.org/ []

!!!!!!!!!!!GO NZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Each ring stands for a content. There are a lot of people going fom NZ to see the Olympics. There is The Olympics have started and it is awesome. The Olympics are heating up, everyone is excited, schools are doing booklets and making posters and of course, making pages on the school website and wikispaces!!!!!

The sport that I'm going to report on is the Synchronized Swimming. The pool for the Synchronized Swimmers has to be at least 3m deep. There are underwater speakers for the Swimmers to dance too and so that thy can stay in rhythm. They use small nose clips to stop water coming in to their nose while they are doing their dance.

Here are all of the countries in the Olympics.


Now that the Olympics have started the sports are starting to settle in to the games. Some of the sports have been played like Handball, Rowing, Basketball and many more. The first Synchronized Swimming will be hosted on the 5th of August from 3:00 to 4:00 Other games of Synchronized Swimming will be held on the 6th, 7th, 9th and the 10th from 3:00 to 4:00. Here are some of the athletes competing in the Synchronized Swimming… - Eloise Amberger - Jenney-Lyn Anderson - Shaza Abdelrahman - Sarah Bombell - Sona Bernadova - Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon - Olia Burteav - Alzbeta Dufkova - Stephanie Durocher And many many more!!!!!

http://www.london2012.com/athletes/discipline=synchronized-swimming/index.html http://www.london2012.com/venue/aquatics-centre/

Here are some of the Parks getting used for the Olympics... - Earls Court used for Volleyball - Hampton Court Palace used for Road Cycling - Aquatics Park used for Swimming, Diving and Synchronized Swimming - Lords Cricket Ground used for Archery - Hyde Park used for Triathlon - Greenwich Park used for Equestrian and Modern Pentathlon - Old Trafford used for Football - Lee Valley White Water Centre used for Canoe Slalom - Basketball Arena used for Basketball and Handball - Wembley Arena used for Badminton and Rhythmic Gymnastics - The Royal Artillery Barracks used for Shooting - The Mall used for Athletics and Road Cycling - Riverbank Arena used for Hockey - Wimbledon used for Tennis And Many Many More!!!!!!!!

The first Synchronized Swimming was yesterday. The teams were USA, Ukraine, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Kazakhstan, CheckzRebulic, Canada, Egypt, Italy, Korea, Greece, Mexico and many more.

__ Ukraine __ - scary music - flat splits - score: 92.200

__ Egypt __ - fast movements - good synchronization - score: 76.700

__ Italy __ - fluro swim suits - fast movements - flat splits - flexible - score: 90.700