Olympic Report Card

Room 9 children created PMI charts on the Beijing Olympic Games. Here are some of their ideas.

Mrs Barlow's Blog

Room 9 here is a link to Mrs Barlow's Blog featuring gorgeous Annabel.
www.annabel-a-day.com/

Libby Trickett

Hi my name is Puti. Libby Trickett is my Olympic athlete because she is a fast swimmer. Libby is 23 years old. She is swimming for Australia. She is going to the olympics. Libby is doing free style.

Mahe Drysdale

Hi my name is Daniel and my Olympic athlete is Mahe Drysdale. He is a rower and this will be his first Olympics. He may have not taken part in these
Bejing Olympics 2008 because Rod Waddell left for the Americas Cup and
then came back. They had to have a three race competition. In the first race
Drysdale won by miles. In the second race he lost by very little and in the third game
Rod Waddell was sick so Mahe won. In the Rowing match between all the countries
Mahe Drysdale came second. Four years ago Rod Waddell came first
in the same race. Mahe Drysdale is who I support and I think he is going to win!

Mark Todd

Hi my name is Annabelle. I am going to study Mark Todd, he is a famous horse rider. I picked him because I like horses and he is a horse rider. He was born in March 1956 in Cambridge, New Zealand. He grew up in the Waikato area. He is 52 years old and completing in his sixth Olympic games in Beijing 2008. He had a eight-year break and now will be in the arena on his new horse Gandalf. So far he has two olympic gold medals and 2 bronze medals. In the 1992 Olympics Mark Todd was the opening ceremony flag bearer. He competed in Los Angeles in 1984, Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000 and now in Beijing.

Valerie Vili

Hi my name is Jazmin. My Olympic athlete is Valerie Vili.
Valerie Vili is a famous shotputter. Valerie was born on the 6 October 1984. She broke a 20 year Commonwealth record of 19.00m with a throw of 19.66m in 2000.
She won the world youth champs in 2001, her throw was 16.87m. In the 2005 world champs. Valerie won a bronze medal because her throw was 19.87m. In the 2004 first Olympics she finished 8th in shotputting. In the Commonwealth games she won a silver medal and her throw was 17.45m. In the 2002 junior champs Vili's throw was 17.73m. She came second in the world athletics final.
I think Valerie is a great shotputter and she's a role model for younger people. I'm definitely going to watch the Olympic games!

Amy Chow

Hi, my name is Ye Eun.
My Olympian athlete is Amy Chow. She is an Olympic gymnast. I chose Amy Chow because she does gymnastics just like me!
She is twenty-two years old and her hometown is San Jose, California.
Her Olympic history: She competed in her second Olympics after winning a medal in the teams competition.
Her accomplishments: She finished first in the all-round, uneven bars, floor exercise and finished third in the vault and balance beam at the 2000 Bluewater International Invitational. She finished sixth in the all-round, tied for first in the vault at the 2000 RCA Gymnastics College.
Amy was coached by a guy called Mark Young and Amy Chow was the first Asian-American women to take an Olympic medal in her sport!
Amy has been a pole vaulter before AND she has two gymnastics moves named after her!!!!! Wow!!! That is one truly amazing gymnast!

Adrian Blincoe

Hi! I am Richard. My Olympic athlete is Adrian Blincoe.
He is a 1500m runner.and this will be his first Olympics.
He was a runner in the 2005 world track and field championships in Helsinki and he competed in the 2006 Melboure Commonwealth games.