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Fencing

How do they play the sport?  You need to touch your target in a certain place with a certain type of weapon.
What do you need to play this sport? You need a white suit, a mask and a weapon with a flat tip.
Five interesting Facts:

• Fencing used to be a training exercise for the military until the 15th century.
• Fencing was included for the first time in 1896 in Athens, and has remained on the Olympic programme since then.
• Three types of weapons are used in the game and they are foil, epee and sabre.
• A guy called Nedo Nadi is the best Italian fencer of all time, he is the only fencer to have won a gold medal in each of the three weapons at a single Olympic Games.

This is one of the sports I've been wanting to learn about, if you don't know what the sport is, it's FENCING! Fencing sounds like a sport that needs A LOT of concentration and training. I am very bad at concentrating so this sport might not be for me but for other people. I hope you have learnt how to play and what you need in order to participate in this sport.

Day Four Lisa Carrington

                                                     Lisa Carrington
Lisa Carrington is 27 and was born in 1989, in Tauranga. Lisa Carrington is a canoe sprinting 200m distance champion since 2011. In 2015 she took it up a notch, adding the K1 500m world title. The Whakatane-raised Carrington, of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki and Ngati Porou descent, first started paddling as a surf lifesaver and has represented New Zealand in that sport too. 
To me Lisa Carrington sounds like a successful woman who knows what she wants to do in life. I would love to ask Lisa Carrington so many questions about what she had to do to achieve her dream. 

Day Three Archery Skills

                                                               Archery   

It's an old sport, still a famous sport today you guessed it, ARCHERY! 
Archery is an old sport from the Egyptians. The Egyptians used bows and arrows for hunting. Archery debuted which means first appearancesc at the 1900 Olympics, in Paris and France. In 1904, it became one of the first Olympic sports to include woman.
The Aim Of Archery

The goal for archery is to shoot 10 rings 48 inches across and a gold ring worth a maximum 10 points.
Two Main Archery Rules

1.The competers most shoot arrows as close as they can near the center of a target shooting from 230 feet away.
2.You need to have great skill, accuracy and nerve.

Archery sounds like a really exciting sport that I would enjoy but need a few weeks to practice. I hope you have learnt a few things about archery.

Day Two "Tom And Vinicius Episode #1"

                                              The Tale Of Tom And Vinicius's Friendship

How the mascots Tom and Vinicius became friends. 

Tom and Vinicius were chasing an orb then found themselves staring at eachother. The orbs wanted to create a strong bond between those two and it worked. They both went on adventures together and did other things together. I think those two will become the best of friends until the end. 

Girls Should Particiapate In The Olympics

During the ancient Olympic Games, men were allowed to compete in the events but women were not. In fact, women were often forbidden from even watching the games.

I think that rule is silly and unfair because,

1.Women want to support their partner.

2.Women don't have to stay at home and do chores.
3.Men aren't the only people who can do these sports.
If the No Girls Rule didn't change a few years later then no one would have known about Valerie Adams who's known for shot put or Lydia Ko who is a proffesional golfer.
I hope a lot of you can agree with me.
Stay tuned until Day Two.

Day One Part One Olden Day Olympics

Once Upon a Time in Olympia…

Thousands of years ago in the country Greece was the first ever Olympic Games held in an ancient city called Olympia.There were amazing events like running, wrestling, boxing, pankration, horse racing and pentathlon.

If I took part in the
Olympics, I would choose the running event. I would have to do three running events called The Stade,The Diaulos and finally The Dolichos. These three running stages have different difficulty levels. The Stade is a sprinting race. The athletes would run from one side of the stadium to the other. The Diaulos is a middle distance run. For those of you who don't know what middle distance run means, it means it's longer than a sprint race so it can go from 800 metres to the mile run which is 3000 metres. Last but not least The Dolichos race.If you thought that The Diaulos was the hardest one think again.The Dolichos race is an endurance race.The athletes have to run approximately which means almost 20 lengths of the stadium, what a work out. If the athletes can run 20 lengths, I can too if I train hard. The only reason I want to do the running event is because it would help me become fit. Stay tuned and you may be able to read another blog post about the Olden Day Olympics.