1. Did you know pages 2-4 History Olympics pages 5-8 Beijing host of Olympics pages 9- 10 Profile on Olympics sports pages 11-13 Profile on Olympic athletes pages 14-16 Trinity and A-Young

2. Did you know that Beijing is the capital city of china. Did you know that in china they speak Chinese mandarin and Hindi. Chinese people eat rice, noodles, dumplings and sushi. China has 1/5 of the worlds population. Chinese tourists attractions are visiting the Hung-Shan –yellow mountain.

3. China is the 4 th largest country. Chines people play allsorts of sports like Badminton, gymnastics, table tennis, golf martial arts, cricket and football. China population is ;1,321,851,888

5. Did you know the first winter Olympics was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. The five rings represents five continents or major geographical areas of the world. Every flag of a country participating in the Olympics includes at least one of the following colours: blue, black, red, yellow, and green.

6. For the Olympics their going to be doing swimming, running, rowing, Did you know that the ancient Olympics games were found by Heracles, (the Roman Heracles) a son of Zeus. The Olympic games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years! The very first modern Olympic games opened in the first week of April 1896.

7. The 1900 Olympics were hosted by Paris Pole vaulting, sprints, shot put, weight lifting, swimming, cycling, target shooting, tennis, marathon and gymnastics were all events at the first Olympics. Approximately 300 athletes participated, representing thirteen countries.

8. The 1956 Olympic Games hosted by Melbourne were the first Olympics held in the Southern Hemisphere; thus the Games were held in November and December. For a while it seemed as if no one was going to attend the 1932 Olympic Games. Los Angeles had constructed the very first Olympic Village for the Games. The first Olympics were held at Athens in 1896. In 1988 the Olympics were held at Seoul.

9. Did you know that The Great Wall Of China is very famous in the whole entire world. 107 million watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing. There have been lots of world records that have been broken. The total number of people living in Beijing has reached 15.244 million.

10. The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX (Twenty- nine Olympiad. Tourism in China has greatly expanded over the last few decades. Did you know that Shanghai is very popular in china. There are 5.853 million males and 5.741 million females in Beijing. Beijing has approximately 50,000 newborns each year.

11. To play soccer you will need a ball. And a team and a umpire and a coach. Girls and Boys can play soccer. Soccer has a goalie aswell as hockey but the goalie only needs hand gloves. Soccer is a well known sport. There has been heaps of world cups throughout the year for soccer. A soccer ball looks like this.

12. Basketball is played by girls and boys. There are lots of teams like the NBA team For basketball you need a ball and lots of players. Its best to be tall for basketball so you can reach the hope A Basketball looks like dis.

13. What you need to have for volleyball is a team, a ball you can hit with your hands and a net. You need to have two teams and six players on each side. Each try to score points against one another by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. In volleyball after a serve you need to pass three times before you can hit over the net.

14. He was born in 1981 on 10 th of January. His birth place is Ashburton His birth country is NZ. He’s one 1 bronze medal and one silver. He is a cyclists as well Sahara Elma

15. She won gold at the shot putt. She threw the ball over meters! She trains about six hours a day! She is a Maori person. Her favourite ice cream flavour is chocolate. She like basket ball when she was under 13. Valerie Vili was world youth shot put champion in 2001.

16. She was born in 1972 on June the 21 st. Her birth place was vereeniging Her birth country was South Africa She has won 1 gold medal and 1 silver medal.