Lisa Carrington~Gold🏅

Gold for NZ!!!. New Zealand's third gold was earned by a talented kayak-er Lisa Carrington. She came first in the Kayak single 200m canoe sprints. Runner up was Poland athlete Marta Walczykiewicz and in third place was Inna Osypenko-Radomska. 
Congratulations to Lisa for representing NZ proudly and for proving herself a 
worthy athlete.

Usain Bolt 🌩Winning Streak🌩

Known as the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt had once again won another race and gold medal for the 100m sprints. The race started with runner up athlete Justin Gatlin in the lead and then Usain Bolt made his way to the front, winning the race. He finished the race at 9.81 seconds which is very near to his world record( 9.58 seconds).

Usain Bolt described himself for winning continuously "Immortal". Good on him for making history and reviving from his injuries. 

NZ🇳🇿 Vs Great Britain🇬🇪

Tomorrow morning, at 3:30 am the NZ Men's Sevens team is playing Great Britain to determine which country is going head to head to go to the the quarter finals. Hopefully NZ beats Great Brritain and the following countries so that we NZ could get their fist gold. Good luck guys, win us a good game. 

Women's Sevens🏉🎖

For the Olympics our NZ Sevens girl competed in the Olympics representing NZ. They had made it to the finals against Australia but unfortunately lost. Points (24:17). Though it was an upset because we didn't win gold, it was also great for we won the silver medal. Congratulation girls.!! 

Olympic Medal Table🎖🏅

So far the Olympics have been of the charts. Many countries have won medals and the country with most medals so far is China. China is on 4 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 4 bronze medals on a total of 10 medals.

Olympic Quotes

Since the Olympics have started I have been looking at Olympic quotes that athletes speak to inspire other athletes. These are my top 2 quotes. 

Day 7~My own sport~Paralympics

My Task for today:

Imagine that you are on the Paralympic Committee and you have been asked to create one new sport to add to the competition for this year. Use your awesome imagination to design a brand new Paralympic sport. Please remember that some of the athletes will not be able to walk or run and others may be blind or deaf. On your blog, please write:

1. The name of your sport,
2. A brief description of how you play the sport, and
3. Three rules for the sport

My sport isn't really "my" own sport. It is called Lacrosse. This game involves:

-Lacrosse Stick

-Helmet

-Shoulder Pads

-Elbow Pads

-gloves

This sport is a contact sport but I am going to change it up a little bit. For this sport only athletes who can not run or walk are allowed to play for they would be playing on wheel chairs. Same rules apply for this sport. Though it would be hard holding a stick in your hands while trying to drive the wheel chair, it will be such a challenge.

3 Rules

-No contact involved

-Must pass the light ball at least 5 times before scoring

-Only athletes who cannot walk or run

Hope you enjoy reading my remixed sport

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Day 7~Who to choose~Paralympics

Today's Task:

Activity 1: At the first ever Paralympic Games in Rome, the athletes competed in eight sports. Cycling was one of them. For the cycling event, two people compete together as a team – one of the people has a disability and the other does not. Here is a picture of a para-cycling team from New Zealand:

https://www.paralympic.org/news/paralympics-new-zealand-make-para-cycling-appointment

At the moment the most famous para-cycling team in New Zealand is comprised of two female athletes – Emma Foy and Laura Thompson. Emma is blind but Laura is not. Together they work as an amazing team. Imagine that you were asked to compete in a tandem cycling event and you had to choose one person to compete with. Who would it be? On your blog, tell us who you would compete with and why. If it was me, I would choose my son, Aronui because he’s pretty fast and very funny. He would make me laugh as we biked along and would be very supportive and encouraging! I know that I could trust him to be a good teammate. Who would you choose?

I would choose my dad. First of all because m dad is so supportive of me and my siblings. He is funny aand cracks jokes when ever he can. But also because he has such great sportsmanship, whether he loses or wins.

Day 6~Who to invite?~Entertaining the crowd

Today's task:

In the opening ceremony for the London Olympics there were a number of famous English people including the Queen, the Spice Girls, David Bowie, U2, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney. Imagine that we were going to host the Olympics here in New Zealand in 2024 and you were invited to be on the committee that decides who is invited to participate in the opening ceremonies. As a member of the group you must choose one of the following people to be in the opening ceremony: Richie McCaw (rugby player), Lorde (singer), Kane Williamson (cricket player), Maria Tutaia (netball player), John Key (prime minister of New Zealand) or Shaun Johnson (league player). On your blog, tell us who you think is the best person to choose and explain why you think that they are the best choice!

I would choose John Key. Though he's not everybody's favourite I would still invite him because well he is the Prime minister so why not invite the man who makes the decisions in our country, though sometimes bad decisions. But he is still our prime minister. 

(I still have hopes up for Lorde to attend the ceremony)

Day 6~Entertaining the crowd

I will be judging and rating the NZ team uniforms for the Olympics from, 2012, 2008 and 2004. Here are the uniforms.

New Zealand Team Uniform – London Olympics 2012

Let's just say that this is a fashion upset. I really don't get the patterns used on the dresses, I don't know but the dresses are not good. Though I do love the blazers. I give these uniforms a 5/10. (Worst)

New Zealand Team Uniform – Beijing Olympics 2008

These outfits are colourful and I think they are matching it too much Though I do love the symbols and the use of the colours. I give this outfit a 7/10.

New Zealand Team Uniform – Athens Olympics 2004

Now I think this look is the best for it's very simple. I like how they used just black and white and the eegant skirts the women are wearing.

Day 5 ~Jesse Owens!~Eddie the Eagle

Jesse Owens was a black American athlete who participated in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. He is considered to be one of the bravest and most inspirational Olympic athletes because he competed at a time when the leader of Germany (Adolf Hitler) did not want black men competing at the Olympic Games. My task for today is to think of someone who inspires me(like Jesse Owns) and why?.

My idol, my inspiration is Martin Luther King. He is my inspiration because he fought for the right of his country and the right for his race. Also cause he inspired me with his speech "I had a dream". One of my favourite quote spoken by him is Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.