Tuesday 28 August 2012
Mrs Cottee.. Teacher vote!!
I vote Mrs Cottee the best teacher award because she has a range of humourous, creative and caring personalities. First of all, she is a teacher that you can easily connect with anytime of the day. She has an open mind with conversations and you can talk to her about anything you want. Mrs Cottee is very humourous. At times she can be strict but she also has a funny side of her that will never disappear. She is quite caring because she is always supporting her class students with anything they need help with. She goes the extra mile to help students with extended infomation before exams or tests that are to be done. I am proud to be a students of Mrs Cottee, and will be happy to have her as a teacher anytime.
Tuesday 14 August 2012
OLYMPIC OPINIONS.. (surfing)
Surfing should be an Olympic sport because it is a very unique sport. It involves swimming, agility and strategy. In the Olympics, a wave pool could be used so judging would be based on the same criteria for all surfers, including wave conditions, time period, and number of rides. Luck in catching the biggest and best waves would not factor into the competition.
Many surfers have won Olympic medals for swimming, even though the reason they are so fast is because of the swimming practice they have gained from surfing. These swimming surfers could show their true abilities if they could also win medals in surfing. For example, Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, the “king” of surfing, went to the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden with the American team, and broke the record for the 100-yard freestyle, winning the gold medal. When it was time for the 1920 games at Antwerp, Belgium, Duke was 30 and too old to try out for the American team. But he whipped himself back into shape and broke his previous world record in the 100 meter sprint with a time of 60.4 seconds.
On the other hand the physical exertion involved in surfing would become less of a factor since there would be no need to paddle out through the current to the waves. Also, most surfers surf in salt water and the salt water boards are different then a fresh water board, so the movement of board could change.
Surfing should become a Olympic sport, I think the reason its not one yet is because people do not take surfers seriously. Most of the people who run the Olympics believe that ice skating or the high jump are real sports, but surfing is more of a sport than both of them and many of the other sports involved in the Olympics.
Many surfers have won Olympic medals for swimming, even though the reason they are so fast is because of the swimming practice they have gained from surfing. These swimming surfers could show their true abilities if they could also win medals in surfing. For example, Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, the “king” of surfing, went to the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden with the American team, and broke the record for the 100-yard freestyle, winning the gold medal. When it was time for the 1920 games at Antwerp, Belgium, Duke was 30 and too old to try out for the American team. But he whipped himself back into shape and broke his previous world record in the 100 meter sprint with a time of 60.4 seconds.
On the other hand the physical exertion involved in surfing would become less of a factor since there would be no need to paddle out through the current to the waves. Also, most surfers surf in salt water and the salt water boards are different then a fresh water board, so the movement of board could change.
Surfing should become a Olympic sport, I think the reason its not one yet is because people do not take surfers seriously. Most of the people who run the Olympics believe that ice skating or the high jump are real sports, but surfing is more of a sport than both of them and many of the other sports involved in the Olympics.
OLYMPIC OPINIONS.. (boxing)
The Olympic sports I like the most are those that require skills so basic that almost anyone can try them, like running, jumping and throwing. Boxing falls into this category because anyone can try to hit someone else as hard as they can. Unfortunately, Olympic boxing has so many faults that, despite its long history in the Games, it is time to eliminate it from the Olympic program.
To begin with, boxing is one of only two Olympic sports in which the world’s best athletes are not eligible. The other such sport, soccer, at least allows some professionals to take part. Boxing also has a weird scoring system. A successfully executed jab earns one point. A knockdown earns the same one point. But what makes boxing really unacceptable is the corruption and incompetence of the referees and the judges. There have been so many outrageous decisions during the 2012 London Olympics that it is difficult to pick out the worst. Although it was later reversed, how about the “victory” of Magomed Abdulhamidov of Azerbaijan despite the fact that he fell to the ground six times in one round?
If this year’s suspicious incidents were unusual, perhaps they could be overlooked. However, they are actually only the latest in a long string of dubious decisions. American boxing fans might recall the 1988 light middleweight final in which Roy Jones outpunched Park Si-hun of South Korea 86 to 32 … and lost the fight. Even Park apologized to Jones, but the decision was not reversed. Similar Olympic outrages have been documented as far back as 1924, leading to sit-down protests, full-scale riots and even boxers punching referees.
It is worth noting that other judged combat sports in the Olympics, although not devoid of controversy, have managed to avoid the absurdities of boxing. These include judo, wrestling, fencing and tae kwon do.
To begin with, boxing is one of only two Olympic sports in which the world’s best athletes are not eligible. The other such sport, soccer, at least allows some professionals to take part. Boxing also has a weird scoring system. A successfully executed jab earns one point. A knockdown earns the same one point. But what makes boxing really unacceptable is the corruption and incompetence of the referees and the judges. There have been so many outrageous decisions during the 2012 London Olympics that it is difficult to pick out the worst. Although it was later reversed, how about the “victory” of Magomed Abdulhamidov of Azerbaijan despite the fact that he fell to the ground six times in one round?
If this year’s suspicious incidents were unusual, perhaps they could be overlooked. However, they are actually only the latest in a long string of dubious decisions. American boxing fans might recall the 1988 light middleweight final in which Roy Jones outpunched Park Si-hun of South Korea 86 to 32 … and lost the fight. Even Park apologized to Jones, but the decision was not reversed. Similar Olympic outrages have been documented as far back as 1924, leading to sit-down protests, full-scale riots and even boxers punching referees.
It is worth noting that other judged combat sports in the Olympics, although not devoid of controversy, have managed to avoid the absurdities of boxing. These include judo, wrestling, fencing and tae kwon do.
Monday 6 August 2012
Greatest Olympic Moments..
In Beijing 2008, Michael Phelps, a world champion swimmer targeted for eight gold medals. He managed the first six with world records. The seventh was controversial, when he was adjudged to have won by one-thousandth of a second. Omega, the time keepers and Phelps' sponsors, later admitted that Milorad Cavic had touched the wall first but said that he had not pressed hard enough to register first. Phelps secured his eighth in the 4x100m medley relay, in another record time.
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