The Olympics is a big sport related event that occurs every 2 years including both the summer and winter Olympics, which means each occurs once every 4 years. This summer the Olympics were made in The United Kingdom, London. The opening ceremony was creative and fun, though lots of people thought it was weak compared to what China did last Olympics. Over 200 country participate in this event, over 13.000 athletes from all over the world compete for winning the medals, which are the Golden, silver, and Bronze. In the ceremony each country was represented by its athletes marching, with the flags of their countries. They star the marching alphabetically from A to Z , but I believe Greece always go first, because Greeks were the ones created the Olympics thousands of years ago. Olympics include so many types of sports, my favorite ones are, gymnastic, swimming, diving, tennis and track and Field"running". The country that has been doing so well, actually the best based on the numbers of golden medals they won is the United States. Second best is China. Third is Britain then its Russia. Sometimes it feels like its a competition between USA and China only. Few things amazed me about these sports, like how swimmers would go on swimming non stoppable for 4 minutes. How both physically and psychologically strong these athletes are, as they compete with all they have of power in body and mind. These athletes dedicate their whole lives to the sport, practicing constantly, everyday of their life. On American swimmer, Michael Phelps amazed me when I heard that he won 22 medals; 18 of them were Golden. When he answered the interviewer, other American swimmers were laughing because it is just crazy, that no one ever had this many medals before. He actually comes from Rochester. Another local athlete (from Rochester) . A woman who played soccer in the Olympics was Abby Wambach. The last one that impressed me was a female runner from Jamaica who won the race even though she was the shortest among all the other runners, and that disputes what I always thought, that is the speed of a runner goes hand in hand with the height of that runner. My country participated in the event in different sports, yet haven't won any medals, which is some how disappointing, oh well one thing to illustrate here; this month of the year, Muslim people fast and it has been mentioned that some of those athletes were fasting .which minimize their energy, consequently their chances of winning. However, even if Saudi athletes were not fasting. They wouldn't have won. But that's just what "I" think.
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