Paralympics

In the paralympics games there are 20 sports and athletes are going to compete in the sports they are playing.

The paralympics can be played in winter or summer and its held after the Olympics Games all the time.


Many athletes have no legs and they sometimes have to use wheelchairs. Paralympics events have the same rules but it will maybe change. The London 2012 paralympics will start on the 29 of August.


There will be 4000 athletes competing in twenty different sports. The games will take place on the 29th of August and the 9th of September for eleven days.

The Amazing race

On Friday the 17 of August,  we had cross country and some of us around the school were nervous about it . The 9,10,11 boys and girls had to run into the bush walk. The bush walk leads you across the road from Tamaki College  and back into the bush walk, then it goes back into the school grounds and all the way to the finish  line.

When we started the race Mr Burt banged his clappers,  then we ran. When he did that, I ran. Then when I got half way it felt like I was actually in the Olympics running on the racecourse. When i nearly got through   the gate I almost got stuck in  the mud. I had a stitch and I just keep going until I got to the finish line.

I felt proud of myself because I could do it all by myself.  


                       

Valerie Gold medal

Nick Willis said’ that Valerie Adams deserves A shiny gold medal but some people in Belarus still say that Nadzeya  deserves it. Valerie Adams wants the gold medal because the other lady cheated.  

I think Valerie Adams deserves it because when she took a drug test they said that she took steroids at the Olympics when she went against the women at shot put.  

Now she is saying that she never took drugs  and now they are looking for Valerie Adams gold medal . I hope they find it soon enough so New Zealand can have six gold medals.

Interesting News

The News last night said the Nadzeya  Ostapchuk had a steroid test and the people found out that she had taken drugs. After that Dave Currie had rang Valerie Adams and said Silver had turned into Gold.

Nadzeya Ostapchuk said that she had not taken steroids. I think that she had taken steroids and that was fair and square when Valerie Adams won her gold medal!