Olympic Games

This year, the Olympic Games are going to be organised in London. It's a very ancient tradition, because it was first organised by the Ancient Greeks. But nowadays it's not an annual competition, it's done every four years, and there are lots of different sports.

Some of this sports are: tennis, swimming, football, basketball, running, waterpolo, rithmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, jumping...

The symbol of the Olympic Games is five circles of different colours that represent the continents.

The starting of the Games is widely known: an athlete runs with a torch, lit in Greece, until he arrives to the place where the Olympic Games are going to be played, and with it an enormous fire is lit.

In 1992, the Olympic Games were organised in Barcelona. Some of the athletes that are going to participate in the Olympic Games this year are: Craviotto (from Lleida), Usain Bolt (from Jamaica), Rafa Nadal (from Mallorca), Michael Phelps (from USA)...

Our favourite sport is swimming, because we've always liked it, and sometimes we had woken up at four o'clock in the morning for seeing the competition.