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The Olympic games bring a lot of excitement beyond sporting competitions and medal tallies. There are a lot of reasons to celebrate:
- These are the first Olympic games to be hosted in the continent of South America so we congratulate our students from this part of the world, specially from Brazil.
- To help taxi drivers in Brazil to communicate with tourists they were given free English lessons.
- The Olympics unite people from across the globe with 205 participating countries and over 11,000 athletes.
- There are over 70,000 volunteers who keep the Olympic spirit alive.
- There are 10 Indigenous athletes on the Australian team.
- This is the first time a team of refugee athletes competes in the Olympics. They include 2 swimmers from Syria, 5 track athletes from South Sudan, 2 judokas from Congo and a marathon runner from Ethiopia.
- The “Laurel Award” was presented for the first time to “Kip Keino”, the two-time Olympic champion runner from Kenya, for his outstanding contribution to education and culture through sport. After retiring from competition he opened a children’s home for 100 Kenyan orphans, a school in an isolated area for 300 children and a sports training centre for promising athletes in Kenya.
- What Rio Olympics moments, stories or facts have you found exciting?
- If you could join the Olympics as an athlete, what sport would you choose and why?
- The Rio Olympics cost over US$11 billion. Do you think this spending is justified? Why/why not?
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I think the money spent is not justified, because it is so expensive. The money should be spent on Schools, hospitals or poor people.
ReplyDeleteThat`s a ridiculos amount of money that could be spent on better causes such as feeding poor people in Africa, bringing them some clean water and help them with the medication.
ReplyDeleteI value sports and believe that sports bring you a lot of benefits such as keeping you healthy and fit. Also, sports encourage friendship among the athletes and they all get a chance to compete no matter where they come from and what colour of skin they have. So, even though US$ 11 billion is a lot of money, it is worth it and it's quite justified.
DeleteI think this money is quite big amount to spend on sports, instead of that we can spend it on people who don't have home and food.
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone for expressing your opinion here. It is great to see DL students actively participating in the conversation. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteFantastic to see a refugee team in the Olympic family for the first time!
ReplyDeleteI don't think spending 11 billion dollars is justified because it is unreasonable amount to spend on Olympic games. Surely some could be spent on other things like helping orphanages, schools, hospitals and other things like that
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