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This article is based on a short interview and extracts from Karen’s diary. The photos were all taken by Karen ( except the one of her being Husain Bolt)
What Sports are in the Olympics?
Running, ping Pong, swimming,tennis, jumping, boxing, wrestling, mini golf, gymnastics, weight lifting ,football , basketball
What countries take part?
Turkey, Poland , Palestine ,Nigeria, Spain, France, Pakistan, India, Malta and others.
Opening ceremony
27th July.
After tea we watched the Olympic opening ceremony. There was a man rapping, the Beatles and Mr Bean being silly on a xylophone and blowing his nose, and running on a beach ,The Beatles , hospital beds with children, Mary Poppins, fireworks , burning torches , Hey Jude, Spice Girls, R and B, rock n roll, David Beckham , the Queen and James Bond.
What did you see on TV the next day?
Diving – doing flip flops,,Canoeing, gymnastics –standing on a stool,jumping up and dancing , archery. They pulled a string and shot an arrow, I have done Archery when I go to Activenture.I am good at getting my arrow into the target
You went to some Olympic activities at the sports centre. What did you do?
Basketball , trampolining, and throwing bean bags. I throw the basketball into a basket.
How do you get the basketball into the basket? I throw it backwards . I win.
I also ran fast.
Friday- 31st August 2012
Gordon picked me up at 7:30and we met Mummy at Marble Arch and took the tube to Stratford. We walked to the swimming. We had to take our coats off and put our bags through the xray machine but not our shoes. We watched men’s and ladies’ swimming. South Africa won one race . Swimmers from Germany, Malta, Poland, Spain, Brazil and Great Britain. There was loud music like Capital FM except at the start of the races when we had to be quiet.Some of the swimmers had lost a leg or an arm, some were in wheelchairs and some were blind. They had helpers who tapped them on the back with a long stick to tell them it was the end of the pool. We saw the diving pool which was not being used.
We left the swimming pool and got a train to Excel where we went in to watch the Table tennis. We saw a Dutch girl called Kelly who won her match against a girl from Turkey. Lots of people were shouting for Kelly and the Turkish girl’s dad was shouting for her. Some of the players were in wheelchairs
Then we thought it was time for lunch. We had pies ,mash and mushy peas , and I had yoghurt and water.After lunch we tried to see the powerlifting but there was a long queue , so we went to the Judo. The queue moved quickly and there was plenty of space inside. There were a lot of matches and people were throwing each other on the floor and sitting on top of each other but nobody was hurt except one woman who had a nose bleed.
At 5:30 we left and outside the arena we met several of my friends including Ella, Daryl, Marcia and Fadwa. Christine was in charge. Gordon and Mummy had a cup of tea and we got the train home.
I liked the Judo best.
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