• Question: what do you think about the olympics?

    Asked by generalspaz246 to Andrew, Ash, Gem, Paige, SJ on 28 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Paige Brown

      Paige Brown answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      I love the Olympics! Especially Olympic diving! When you watch it this year, if you see the diving, you can know that I almost went to the Olympic diving trials myself! I used to dive off the high dive, 10 meters tall!!! When you hit the water after you dive off of 10meter, you are going 30 miles per hour or more! I would do 3 and 1/2 flips before I hit the water. 😉 Now I coach little kids how to dive!!!

    • Photo: Gemma Staite

      Gemma Staite answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      Personally I like the Olympics. I was brought up in a an environment where athletics was often watched and we used to go, as a faily to watch it locally every year. So, I have always enjoyed it, but I think this years is more exciting. To have have it here in England is great. I’m looking forward to all of it, even some events which I’m not normally so keen on.

    • Photo: Andrew Thomas

      Andrew Thomas answered on 1 Jul 2012:

      I like to watch the Olympics when I can but prefer football. It should have been in Manchester, not London though :P!

    • Photo: SarahJayne Boulton

      SarahJayne Boulton answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I think the Olympics are pretty rad – As a biologist, I think it’s amazing to see what a honed and trained human body can do at the peak of its conditioning and abilities.

      I’ve also been quite interested in all the new tehcnology that’s been developed to improve the timing of the athletes and make drugs testing more reliable.

      http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/12/sport/drugs-london-2012-olympics-laboratory/index.html
      http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriekahle/2012/05/31/omega-advances-olympic-timekeeping-technology-for-london-2012-2/

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