Sports are fun activities that can be different. Fun fact: every country plays some type of sport. We gathered data on what 7th grade students’ favorite sports were. The top picks were soccer, volleyball, and basketball. The first person we interviewed was Henry and his favorite was soccer. The reason he said he liked soccer is because he has been playing soccer for a long time. The next person we interviewed was Charlie and he said “ I’m a pro at it and I’ve been playing it for years”. The third person we interviewed was Drew and he said soccer. The fourth person I interviewed was Lexi and she said volleyball. She said “it isn’t that complicated and there are not a lot of rules and it’s fun”. The next person we interviewed was Andy and he said basketball “it is easy and fun and I’ve been doing it for seven years” he said. Carter’s favorite was football and Leo’s favorite was baseball.
Olympic sports
There are a total of 51 Olympic sports they include soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, tennis, water polo wrestling, bobsledding golf karate skiing rock climbing triathlon track and field cross country gymnastics diving figure skating lacrosse fencing surfing archery and badminton. That’s only half of all the Olympic sports. The winter Olympics take place every four years just like the summer Olympics but they are two years different so the winter Olympics take place in 2026, 2030, and 2034. At the same time the summer Olympics take place in 2024, 2028, and 2032. The 2028 summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles California. The Olympics are very popular. Each sport has winners that stand on a podium and are awarded a medal gold for first place silver for second place bronze for third place. America has 1,229 gold medals, 1,000 silver medals and 876 bronze medals.
Paralympics
There are also the Paralympics, which are the Olympics for disabled people for example if you only had one leg and are good enough to be in the Olympics you would be in the Paralympics because you have one leg to make it more fair. There are some cool Paralympic sports like wheelchair basketball and Paralympic hockey and skiing and so much more. The US has 882 gold medals, 819 silver medals and 788 bronze medals.
History of the Olympics
The reason the Olympics were created to honor Zeus. Baron Pierre de Coubertin who was the founder of the modern Olympic Games. The Olympics originated around 3000 years ago by Greece. In 1896 the first modern Olympics took place in Athens. There were 280 participants that were from 12 nations. The contestants would compete in 43 different events. Now it is a chance to make the world a more peaceful world through challenges and competitions. Today we still do the same things but we created more new sports.
