WEEK 9,Current issues affecting the 2008 Beijing Olympics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/6934955.stm

Because of thick air pollution in Beijing,most of it's host factories have been shut down,while many others have been moved out of town,but even so non stop construction and booming car sales, the pollution is more worse than before.Beijing's filthy air and clogged traffic have been worrying organizers and IOC for some time now.

This is Brad Walker vaulting over a bar.

WEEK 8,Choose a sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympic games

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/olympics/2004391023_olynotes04.html

Pole Vaulting is an event for athletes where a person uses a long and flexible pole (today is usually made of fibreglass or carbon fibre) as an aid to leap over a bar.Brad Walker is a pole vaulter from Seattle,America and is ranked No. 1in the world.He is the favourite for this year's Beijing Olympics in Summer and he has won 2 championships including one last year at Osaka,Japan.Brad has vaulted just 6 inches below his sports Holy Grail,Sergei Bubka's15 year old record of 20 feet and2 1/2 inches.

WEEK 7,Sports included in 2008 Beijing olympic games

http://www.chinaorbit.com/2008-olympics-china/olympic-sports-2008.html


The summer Olympic Games have 28 different sports with 38 disciplines and the Winter Games
have 7 sports with 15 disciplines.The summer games includes:Aquatics,Archery,Athletics,
Badminton,Baseball,Basketball,Boxing,Canoeing,Cycling,Equestrian,Fencing
Football,Gymnastics and Handball.
Also there is Hockey,Judo,Modern Pentathlon,Rowing,Sailing,Shooting,Softball,Table Tennis,
Taekwondo,Tennis,Triathlon,Volleyball,Weight-Lifting and Wrestling.

WEEK 6,Tradition of the gold,silver and bronze medals.

http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/olymphlx/answer.htm
The Olympic medals since 1928 have not changed in features, they still have:a Greek goddess,the Olympic rings,the coliseum of the ancient Athens,a Greek vase known as an amphora,a horse-drawn chariot,the year,number of the Olympiad and the host city. There will be a total of 1,838 medals awarded,there are 604 gold,604 silver and 630 bronze. In 1896 when the modern Olympics came back the silver medals were given to the first place winners because the gold medal was strangely considered inferior to silver but then 8 years later at the 1904 games gold replaced the silver medal in first place.Also today's gold medals are actually sterling silver covered with about 6 grams or .21 ounces of pure gold and also all medals are 7 centimetres in diameter.