about the Olympics

 The Olympics have been around for a long time it started about 2.700 years ago and that is a long time ago and there were no gold medals silver medals and bronze medals The winners were given some leaves and a hero’s welcome back home.

Here is a link to about al the medals in the Olympics medals

Some facts

When did it start it started in ancient greece in 770BC more than 2.700 years ago

What were they given if they win the were no medals they got given wreath leaves and a heroes welcome

How long is the Olympics they are 17 days long

How many people went to the olympics back then around 50.000

The Olympics have been hosted by 19 different countries in the world.

There are 28 sports hosted in the Olympics

How was the most best Olympic posen in the world it was Michael Phelps

What are some of the main sports of NZ in the Olympics they are 7 ruby weightlifting

triathlon skiing snowboarding sailing skating figure rowing netball cycling BMX cycling mountain bike

New Zealand has won no gold medals but won 2 silver and 1 bronze medal

How many countries compete in the OLympics there is 206 countries that compete.

Here is some photos of the Olympics

Here are the Olympic medals throughout the                                   years New medals

                                 Old medals

How much dose the medals cost the gold medals cost $20.000 the silver medals cost $15.000 and bronze cost $10.000

How they coze the Olympics host the members of the IOC and they all votes who will host and the country that hosts will automatically go to the finals because they are the host.

today we did some Olympic histry and this is my one and it has got some facks and how it started and about the medals and there is a link that will take you to a slide about the medals and there is some potos to hope you enjoy it.