Olympic Games Facts

Facts About The 2016 Olympic Games

WALT: Understand how the Olympic Values are demonstrated in Rio.

Success criteria: I will be able to give minimum of 1 example of the values being shown in Rio.

1. The Summer Olympic Games 2016 will take place from 5th to 21st August in Rio de Janeiro.

2. The opening and the closing ceremony will take place in the Maracana Stadium 

3. It will be the first Olympic Games ever held in South America.

4. Up until today, the Summer Olympics have been held 27 times.

S.C At the Olympics, when the women were running in the 5000m running race a New Zealand woman and a American woman both tripped over. But when the New Zealand woman kept running, the American women fell over again the New Zealand women could have kept running but she came back and helped up the American woman. They might have not came first or in a place but they showed the Olympic Values so they made it to the finals!!!! ( The Olympic Values are Friendship that's what they did in the S.C,  Excellence and Respect )