WEEK 7,Sports included in 2008 Beijing olympic games

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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.

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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.

WEEK 5,History of the Olympic torch

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During the ancient games in Olympia,Greece,a flame ignited by the sun,burned continually on a
alter of the Goddess Hera.The first modern Olympic flame was first seen in the 1928
Amsterdam games,where the flame burned constantly throughout the games.The modern Olympic torch relay tradition began in 1936 in Berlin.The torch is lit by the sun in Olympia,as it was in ancient times and then passed from runner to runner in a relay to the host city.When it arrives at the host city,it is used to light a different flame in a cauldron at the Olympic stadium during the opening ceremony.the flame then burns throughout the games and is extinguished at the closing ceremony.

WEEK 4,Symbolism of the Olympic rings

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According to the Olympic Charter,the five ringed symbol "represents" the union of five different continents and also the meeting of the athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic games.Not coincidentally,Coubertin is the founder of the modern Olympic Movement.The Olympic committee adopted the flag in 1914 and the flag was first flown at the 1920 Antwerp games.
While the charter isn't explicit, many people believe that the colours of the Olympic flag-blue, black, red, yellow and green on a white field -are used because at least one of these colours are found on each nations flag that participates in the games. This theory might be true; however the nation that each ring represents a specific continent is not. The five interlocking rings represent the five continents brought together by Olympic movement.

WEEK 3, Olympic Motto

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The Olympic motto is ''Citius,Altius,Fortius''.These three Latin words in English mean ''Swifter,Higher,Stronger.