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1 Award Olympics This is award is not in the South Pacific Manual but is on the North American Division web site. WARNING - this means that if you order badges from your local Conference it could take a while, but most Adventist Book Centres are now willing to order these for you. An Olympic Crossword can be found at which is part of the Enchanted Learning web site. This may disappear eventually These helps were provided by Julie Rainey of Western Australian Conference 2004 and Margaret Tay of the North New Zealand Conference. Here is a set of Olympic "medal" outlines that can be copied.

2 What follows are extra helps for the teacher, that are not provided in the Manual section. A Little History of the Olympics.. The ancient Olympics were quite different from the modern Games. For starters they were known as "Olympiad," rather than the "Olympics." There were also fewer events, and only free men who spoke Greek could compete. In addition the games were always held at Olympia, not in different locations each time. One similarity with modern games is that the ancient Olympic Games were also held every four years, just like today. The first Olympic game was recorded in 776 BC; that was about 3,000 years ago! The games took place with a great festival honoring the Greek gods. The Olympian Games are the most famous of the four great national festivals held by the ancient Greeks. The Isthmian games were held every two years at Corinth in honor of Poseidon; the Nemean Games, at Nemea for Zeus; the Pythian games were staged every four years near Delphi to honor Apollo; and the Olympics were held every four years at Olympia in honor of Zeus. War between all city-states was suspended during the games so the athletes could travel safely, and even death penalties could not be issued. In the first thirteen Olympic games, there was only one event and that was the sprint. The sprint event was about one hundred and eight meters in length. Then later Pentathlon was added and it had different events. There was discus, javelin, jumping, running, and wrestling. After a while, they added Equestrian events. Women were not allowed to compete in the Ancient Olympics. In fact, only unmarried women were allowed to even attend! Maybe because the athletes ran naked! In AD 393, the games were ended by Christian emperor Theodosius I. It was not until 1896 that the modern Olympics were staged again, and they have been repeated every four years with the exception of 1916 (World War 1), 1940 and 1944 (World War II). After 1992 the Winter and Summer Games were no longer held within the same calendar year. The last Summer Olympic Games was held in Athens in August There were 28 sports played at Athens. Aquatics - including Fencing Shooting swimming, diving, water polo and synchronised swimming Archery Football Softball Athletics Gymnastics Table tennis Badminton Handball Taekwondo Baseball Hockey Tennis Basketball Judo Triathlon Boxing Pentathlon Volleyball Canoeing Rowing Weight lifting Cycling Sailing Wrestling Equestrian An Olympic sport must be "widely practised by men in at least 75 countries and on four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and on three continents".

3 The Flag of the Olympic Games: The flag of the Olympic Games has five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red) on a white ground. The rings represent the five parts of the world that were joined together in the Olympic movement: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. The motto of the Olympic Games is "Citius, altius, fortius" (meaning 'Taster, higher, stronger" in Latin). \History of the Olympic Flag: Pierre de Frddy, Baron de Coubertin ( ), a French educator and sportsman, revived the Olympic Games in He designed the flag of the Olympics in The flag was first used in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. The Olympic flag is paraded during the opening ceremony of each Olympic Games. At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next hostcity. The flag will remain in the town hall of the next host-city until the next Olympic Games, four years later. History of the torch The tradition of the Olympic flame began during the ancient Olympic Games, over 2700 years ago in Greece. A flame was lit for each Olympics, every four years, and burned throughout the games. The flame symbolized the death and rebirth of Greek heroes. There was no torch relay in the ancient Olympics. The first torch relay occured at the 1936 games in Berlin, Germany. The Olympic rorch Relay: For each Olympics, a new flame is started in the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia, Elis, Greece, using a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of the Sun. This flame begins its Olympic Torch Relay by touring Greece. The flame is then taken to the country where the games will be held (usually by airplane). The flame is then carried around the country where the games are to be held, using a series of torches carried by people running, walking, riding horses and camels, scuba diving, and using other means of human conveyance. The last runner uses a torch to light the large Olympic torch which burns throughout the games. The flame is extinguished during the closing ceremony. A new Olympics torch is designed for each of the games.

4 Organisation An Olympic Games Day or Camp Have countries - little kid and big kid in each Award points Have medals Modern Games Running Hurdles - rows of sticks to run over Javelin - cardboard tube Discus - Frisbee Shotput - cricket ball Relay High jump - string held by others Long jump Rowing - little kid in box,, pushed by big kid Cross-country horse-riding - little kid jockey piggy-backed by big kid Around tyres, over sticks, through sand Weight lifting - bean bags, leg weights Beam - rope on floor Gym (floor) - somersaults, rolls. handstands, supports Bowling - bocce Ancient Games Tug of war Chariot race - little kid in box. big kid pulling Margaret prepared a work book with each requirement listed followed by a space for the Adventurer to make notes. Rather than repeat this I am just listing the illustrations she used, so that your children can use them in their own work books for this award. There is a composite picture of various sports, a frieze that can be used at top or bottom of a workbook page, and two page frames. Margaret also provided three Bible frames on which the texts referred to could be written, these can be found in the Bible Graphics page of the extra menu.

THE OLYMPICS: HISTORY

Franklin Watts downloadables for every child s learning journey THE OLYMPICS is a four-book series that gets behind the scenes at the world s greatest sporting spectacle. In The Olympics: History travel