Olympics

The first Olympic games were held more than 2500 years ago. Greek men came to the city Olympia in Greece. They needed to sport to train for wars and to honour the gods, so they played athletic sports. Slowly the Romans got more power in Greece. In 393 the Olympic games were banned. In 1896 Pierre de Coubertin established the modern Olympics.
The last Olympics were the winter games held in Vancouver in 2010. Our country won three gold, one silver and three bronze medals. Seven of those medals were for speed skating and the other one was for snowboarding. So our country is very good at speed skating.
The next Olympics are the summer games in London in 2012. The Netherlands is interested to organise the Olympic games in 2028. The main city could be Amsterdam or Rotterdam. In the summer of 2021 the IOC will announce which city will organize the Olympic Games of 2028.
The sports I like to watch during the Olympic Games are speed and figure skating during the winter games and gymnastics, athletics and volleyball during the summer games.
I think it is very sad that there are players who are using drugs. This is a very negative thing for the Olympics. The players should be very happy that they are so good in a sport and that they are allowed to go to the Olympics. Then they shouldn’t screw it up by using drugs. But the Olympic Games stay very important because it is something almost all countries in the world are participating. Now it has become also a tradition so I think it will continue for a very long time.

Evelien Jansen