My Olympic Diary• Daily diary entry• Olympic Medal Tally• Medal Count• Results Graph • Caleb's Highlights• Caleb’s interesting facts

Daily Diary Entry 13th August 2008

• Moss Burmester made it to the semi-finals

• Moss has a real chance of getting a medal

• There is lots of news about him on TV

Daily Diary Entry 14th August 2008

• Moss finished 4th in the 200 metre butterfly final

• Mahe finished 3rd in the 1500 metre rowing semi

• NZ black sticks lose to Spain 0-1

Daily Diary Entry16 August Was dubbed “SUPER” Saturday

• The Evers-Swindell sisters won GOLD in the Women's Rowing Double Skulls.

• Valerie Vili won GOLD in the shot put.• Hayden Roulston won SILVER in Men's 4km

Individual Cycling Pursuit• George Bridgewater and Nathan Twadell won

BRONZE in the Men's Rowing Pair• Mahe Drysdale won BRONZE in the Men's

Rowing Single Skulls

Daily Diary Entry 18th August

• New Zealand’s Bevan Docherty finished 3rd and won BRONZE in the men's triathlon.

• Sam Bewley, Hayden Roulston, Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent win BRONZE in the Men's Cycling Team Pursuit

Daily Diary Entry20th August

• Sailing: RS-X GOLD• Kiwi windsurfer Tom Ashley comes

in at first place overall, winning New Zealand's third GOLD medal in the RS-X discipline.

Olympic Medal Tally - Beijing 2008 - New Zealand's WinnersDate Competitor Event

Medal Won

Aug-16Georgina and Caroline Evers-

SwindellWomen's Rowing Double

Skulls Gold

Aug-16 Valerie Vili Women's Shot Put Gold

Aug-16 Hayden RoulstonMen's 4km Individual

Cycling Pursuit Silver

Aug-16George Bridgewater and

Nathan Twadell Men's Rowing Pair Bronze

Aug-16 Mahe Drysdale Men's Rowing Single Skulls Bronze

Aug-18

Sam Bewley, Hayden Roulston, Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent Men's Cycling Team Pursuit Bronze

Aug-19 Bevan Docherty Men's Triathlon Bronze

Aug-19 Nicholas Willis Men's 1500m Bronze

Aug-20 Tom Ashley Men's Sailing RS:X Gold

Medal Count -Top 7

*Plus NZ and Italy

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Bronze

Total

Caleb’s Highlights

• World 100 m and 200 m records fall to Nigerian Usain Bolt , he also broke the world 4 x 400 m record

• Michael Phelps breaks world records becomes the first man in history to win 8 gold medals at 1 olympics

• Fire works at the opening and closing ceremonies.

Calebs interesting facts

• American mens and womens relay teams both drop the baton

• Weight lifter dislocated his arm• Chinese favourite 110m hurdler pulled his

hamstring at the start• Athletes competed in a “Birds Nest”• The swimmers swam in a “Ice Cube”• The games were held in Beijing China• China has more than 1.5 billion people

Calebs interesting facts cont’• China has a “Great Wall” visible from

Space• Chinese flag has 5 stars, The big one

represents the communist party• The other 4 represent

-peasants -workers -middle class -capitalists

Calebs interesting facts cont’• These were the 29th Olympics• The next Olympics will be in

London in 2012 • These were the most expensive

Olympic games• NZ is ranked 5th for medals per

population• Jamica is 1st

Fastest man alive6’ 5” or 1.96 cm

That’s all Folks

Silver Gold Bronze