& you make me wanna LALA

Y Thursday, September 11, 2008Y

5:03 AM

As everyone konw,the Olympics started out in Greece.The Olympics Games will occur every four years.The Olympic Games, originally created to honor Zeus, was the most important national festival of the ancient Greeks, and a focus of political rivalries between the nation-states. However, all competitions involved individual competitors rather than teams. Winning an Olympic contest was regarded more highly than winning a battle and was proof of an individual arete or personal excellence. The winners were presented with garlands, crowned with olive wreaths, and viewed as national heroes.Although records of the Olympics date back to 776 BC when the Olympics were reorganized and the official "First Olympiad" was held, Homer's Iliad suggests that they existed as early as the 12th century BC. The games were held every four years in honor of Zeus, in accordance with the four year time periods which the Greeks called olympiads. Emperor Theodosius I of Rome discontinued them in the 4th century AD, and they did not occur again until they were reinstated in Athens in 1896.Originally, the Olympics was confined to running, but by the 15th Olympiad, additional sports were added the pentathlon (five different events), boxing, wrestling, chariot racing, as well as a variety of foot races of varying lengths, including a long-distance race of about 2.5 miles.Athletes usually competed nude, proudly displaying their perfect bodies. Women, foreigners, slaves, and dishonored persons were forbidden to compete; women, once they were married, were not even allowed to watch any Olympic events, except for chariot races. However, every four years, women held their own games, called the Heraea after Hera, held at Argos, and beginning as early as the 6th century B.C. and lasting at least six centuries until Roman rule.I am not interested in the Olympics,because I do not enjoy sports besides soccer,cycling and jogging.=)Anyway,Tao Li had impressed me as she was the first Singaporean female swimmer to reach a FINA World Aquatics Championships final and she had also won many medals.Look...Medals
Time(min : s)
Medal
Date
Competition
100 m backstroke
1:03.83[3][27]
Gold
1 December 2005
23rd Southeast Asian Games Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
1:04.05[13]
Gold
9 December 2007
24th Southeast Asian Games Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand
50 m butterfly
0:26.73[28]
Gold
7 December 2006
2006 Asian Games Doha, Qatar
0:26.92[3][9]
Gold
6 March 2006
Milo Asia Swimming ChampionshipsSingapore
100 m butterfly
0:58.96[11]
Bronze
2 December 2006
2006 Asian Games Doha, Qatar
1:00.33[13]
Gold
9 December 2007
24th Southeast Asian Games Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand
1:01.10[29]
Bronze
8 March 2006
Milo Asia Swimming ChampionshipsSingapore
1:01.53[3][30]
Bronze
1 December 2005
23rd Southeast Asian Games Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
200 m butterfly
2:14.11[3][31]
Gold
3 December 2005
23rd Southeast Asian Games Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
2:15.63[32]
Gold
11 December 2007
24th Southeast Asian Games Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand
4 x 100 m medley relay
4:13.18[33]
Gold
11 December 2007
24th Southeast Asian Games Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand
4:14.49[3][34]
Gold
2 December 2005
23rd Southeast Asian Games Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

okay...lets hope you know how to read it...she had also impressed me with her National records.Take a look.
Event
Time (min : s)
Date
Competition
50 m backstroke
0:29.20
4 December 2006
15th Asian Games Doha, Qatar
100 m backstroke
1:03.17
20 June 2007
3rd Singapore National Swim ChampionshipsSingapore
200 m backstroke
2:17.55
29 November 2005
23rd Southeast Asian Games Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
50 m butterfly
0:26.73
7 December 2006
15th Asian Games Doha, Qatar
100 m butterfly
0:57.54[21]
10 August 2008
29th Summer Olympics Beijing, People's Republic of China
200 m butterfly
2:12.63[25]
12 August 2008
29th Summer Olympics Beijing, People's Republic of China
4 x 100m freestyle relay
(with Ho Shu Yong, Mylene Ong Chui Bin and Lynette Ng Hiang Yuet)
3:53.33
3 December 2006
15th Asian Games Doha, Qatar
4 x 100m medley relay
(with Shana Lim, Nicolette Teo Wei Min and Quah Ting Wen)
4:13.18
10 December 2007
24th Southeast Asian Games Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand

She's good isnt she?Oh and I do NOT want to ever take part in the Olympics.I am VERY VERY VERY VERY bad at sports.Seriously..Anyway,competition makes me really nervous and I don't like the nervous feeling.I think it's worth it organising the Olympics as it is gives athletes from all over the world a chance to compete with one another and it also helps build their sportsmanship too.