Alejandro Vargas EspinosaJosé Alfonso Amaya Matos

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games began this July 27 and ended on August 12, 2012 in the City of London, United Kingdom. These games are as sporting tradition that takes place every four years and is made up of different disciplines shows the top athletes from each country.These games have as major participation of 341 countries an the Olympic Games had 36 disciplines:

All of this is types of disciplines:

• Archery:

The competition began with an initial qualifying round including the 64 archers of each gender. Each archer shot a total of 72 arrows to be seeded 1-64 according to their score.

The qualifying round was also used to seed the teams 1-12, by aggregating the individual scores of each team member.

Each event is then played in a single elimination tournament format, except for the losers of the semifinals; he played-off to decide the winner of the bronze medal.

• Athletics:

Track and field events held at the Olympic Stadium in east London. Road tests, however, began and ended at the mall in the center of London.

More than 2,000 athletes from 201 nations competed in 47 events in total, with men and women who have a very similar schedule of events.

• Badminton:

A total of 172 athletes competed in five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles women's doubles and mixed doubles. The women's doubles tournament was marred by disqualifications several occasions during the group stage for the game unethical.

All gold medals were won by players from China, The Chinese team also collected two silver and one bronze, to lead the medal table with eight in total. Denmark finished in second place, with one silver and one bronze.

• Basketball:

The preliminary matches and quarter-final women have played in the new Basketball Arena in the Olympic Park with capacity for 12,000 spectators. Games knockout men and women semifinal games have been played forward at North Greenwinch Arena.

• Beach Volleyball:

The first team to score fifteen points wins the set, provided that the difference is at least two points. A volleyball game is played best of five sets. If tied to fourteen points, play continues until one team get two points. The parties are controlled by a referee, an assistant, a timekeeper, a scorekeeper and linesmen.

• Boxing:

This sport is one of four Olympic combat sports, was introduced to the Olympic program in 1904. It is an Olympic sport and amateur exclusively male. It is developed with three round bouts in which victory can be by knockout, technical decision, disqualification, removal and spot. This competition takes place for 15 days.

• Cycling:

The competition in this discipline consists of 8 male and 3 female tests lasting 6 jornadas.Los 2008 Olympic Games for the first time introduced two competitions (male and female) in BMX cycling mode test pista.La road fund is held on public roads, and the UCI can include 212 athletes, 155 men and 57 women, consists of two tests and test lasts 3 jornadas.La mountain biking takes place outdoors and the UCI allows participation of 80 athletes, 50 men and 30 women. Ce will host the cross country test that lasted two days.• Diving:

•Boat:

It is a water sport that consists of a series of offshore races involving nine different classes of boats. The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) participation allows for 15 days of competition, with 400 sailors in the ways male, female and mixed / open.

• Fencing:

Is one of five sports that have always been present in the Olympic Games of the modern era. The sport program consists of three types of tests, saber, foil and epee.

• Football:

One of the most popular sports in the world, debuted as an Olympic sport in the 1900 games. The women's game debuted in 1996. It is the only Olympic sport whose program starts two days before the opening ceremony due to program needs.

• Gymnastics:

The artistic gymnastics competition began in 1896 but was not consolidated as an Olympic sport until 1924. The mode is the most modern trampoline debuted in Sydney since 2000, the Olympic program further comprises another embodiment the rhythm.

• Handball:

Olympic sport mode Munich 1972 Montreal 1976 male and female. Like the basketball indoor dispute for 16 days. This competition's 12 teams vying male and 10 female. In court there are 7 players including the goalkeeper. The share cap is 330 athletes, 180 male and 150 female.

• Hockey:

The Field Hockey first appeared in the Olympic Games in 1908 and women's hockey in 1980. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) allows the participation of 192 players and 160 players. 12 teams competing male and 10 female for 15 days. The formations are holders of 11 players per team.

• Judo:

This is a sport of Japanese origin, was first included in the 1964 Olympic Games. The sport emphasizes the technical superiority of force. Usually held in indoor facilities and is held for 7 days. The International Judo Federation (IJF), allows the participation of 400 athletes, 230 men and 170 women,

divided into seven weight classes ranging, for men, from less than 60 kg to over 100 kg, and for women, from less than 48 to more than 78 Kg Kg.

• Modern Pentathlon:

Pentathlon, test consisting of five exercises: jumping, running, wrestling, discus and javelin, as in the ancient Greek games were made by the participants on the same day. Whoever won three tests was considered the winner. The sport of modern pentathlon became part of the Olympic Games in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden, as a test of military attitudes. The initial concept was to test a military post whose mission is to deliver a message, along the path to it peace

• Remo:

• Rowing is an Olympic sport since the 1896 Athens Olympic Games and is a set of sports in which you use a ship powered by one or more rowers and racing similar to a degree or award. In Spain a distinction between mobile and fixed bank bank. In mobile banking features a seat on wheels that allows you to use your legs for propulsion of the vessel. In bank fixed (non-Olympic) rower is sitting on a fixed seat, and propulsion is performed with the torso and arms. In both modes, the paddler is seated facing the stern. In the Olympic rowing there are 14 modes. This 14 modalities with rowing eight are short in which each rower uses two oars, and six events in the long oar each rower uses one oar. The women's rowing was included in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

• Swimming:

This game has two modes, proper swimming and synchronized swimming, tests were performed in a 50 meter pool. The International Swimming Federation (FINA) can include the following number of participants and tests as each discipline:

Swimming: 727 athletes, competing both individually and in teams in a total of 16 specific tests for each mode, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, individual medley, free relay single relay.

Synchronized Swimming: 104 athletes, only female competing for 4 days in individual and team events.

Swimming competition includes individual and team tests. In mixed races using the four styles of racing-crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly-in a certain order for individuals and one for teams. In the team relay events consist of four swimmers who take turns, with total time determines the winner.

• Table Tennis:

It comes to hitting a golf ball over the net to the other until a player misses the ball or hits the net or off the table, in each of these cases the opponent scores a point. For good service, a player holds the ball in the palm of her hand, pulls himself up in the air and hits the lower, must throw the ball first in the area serving table, then play continues as in tennis except that the ball must bounce on the table before being returned by a player.

• Taekwondo:

Like all modern martial arts, try to be a synthesis of mind, body and spirit. Its techniques include the flying kicks and there, beside training methods (hyong), competitions and tests from wooden planks (Kyok-pa). Instruction focuses on teaching to hit the vital points of the body (keupso).

• Tennis:

Tennis, sport played outdoor or indoor courts with rackets and balls for two or four people, in different types of surfaces, such as clay, grass, cement, parquet or artificial turf.

• Triathlon:

The sport consists of three segments, swimming, cycling and running, which are developed one after another. The clock is ticking from the start of the swim until the arrival of the run: the time it takes to transition between segments account for the end result.

• Volleyball:

Points are scored when the ball hits the ground on the side of the track of the opponents or when they fail a return.

The volleyball court has an area of 9.14 by 18.29 m. Is divided into two sides separated by a 9,14 m higher than the network players head.

• Waterpolo:

Water polo is played in a pool in which the competing teams try to introduce a floating ball into goals at both ends of the playing area. Each team consists of 11 players, but only 7 can be in the water at the same time.

• Weightlifting

1 - torn mode: the athlete must lift the barbell at arm’s length from the ground above your Head-in one motion.

2 - Lift mode: the athlete must lift the barbell from the floor with a first movement to the shoulder and raise the second movement of his head.

Medals

The medals were presented a year before the opening ceremony of the Games for the UK's Princess Anne and Sebastian Coe in Trafalgar Square. The medals are circular and the obverse shows the goddess Nike appears to arise from the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.

The reverse shows a complex design whose background appears the form of an amphitheater and the center shows the logo of the games, also contains a grid that evokes the energy radiated by the athletes, the river Thames and the figure of a table draws attention to the center. Its designe is the artist David Watkins.

U.S. closely follows China, with most medals but not Gold medals For the British, they aspire to achieve some 90 medals, somewhat complicated this year because of Chinese power and American. Still, British Olympians in an attempt not despaired.For its part, Spain aspires to more than 15 medals as the Spanish Olympic Committee and Brazil to improve its performance in order to put Olympic in 2016 and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian athletes have come to earn a maximum of 15 medals in the Olympics, so in this 2012 will try to beat that number.

The final medal remained as follows:

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This is obviously USA had more medals than the other countries.

Featured Athletes

• MICHAEL PHELPS

The American newt arrived in London with a single mission: to become the most medals in the history of the Olympics. With four Golds and two Silvers reached 22 Olympic medals and set a mark that looks unattainable.

• Usain Bolt

Prior to the start of the Games seemed the best sprinter was over. Bolt had been overtaken by Yohan Blake of Jamaica in the Olympic qualifiers and admitted that there was a real possibility of losing his Olympic titles.

• MELISSA FRANKLIN

The baton of American swimming has fallen Melissa "Missy" Franklin, a 17-year-old debuted with four golds and a bronze in his first Olympic Games.

• CHRIS TODAY

The British rider was the spearhead for the host country to dominate in the Olympic Velodrome. Sir Today won two golds in London 2012 and took its total staff to seven medals, six of which are gold.

• GABBY DOUGLAS

At the end of the Olympic Games there is always a special place for the queen of gymnastics and in London in 2012 that honor goes to Gabrielle Douglas, the first black athlete to win the All-Around title.

• CHEN ROULIN

In 2012 London was evident mastery of China in various sports, one of them diving. Of the eight gold medals were awarded in the sport, six were for Asians.

Facts of the Olympics.

• In the debut of women's football, the organization made a mistake and put the South Korean flag instead of the North in the party that faced the North Koreans with Colombia. The match was close to being suspended.

• Before the Olympics Paraskevi Papachristou Greek athlete was sidelined from competition for such racist in his Twitter account. There he posted that "with so many Africans in Greece ... Nile mosquitoes at least have home cooking!

• The Welshman Ryan Giggs, living legend of world football and Manchester United, sparked controversy after not sing 'God Save the Queen' before games where the selection is the captain. The left winger said that the song is a hymn rather than British English.

• The Swiss footballer Michel Morganella was also dismissed by those racist social networks. The values of Novara in Italy said after losing to South Korea 2-1 to ‘Asians could go to hell’ and were a 'band of Mongols'.

• In men's gymnastics team, China, Britain and Ukraine won gold, silver and bronze, respectively, but Japan appealed his score. This was accepted and the Japanese kept the silver, displacing local Ukrainians and leaving empty handed.

• The image will be recorded Shin a Lam forever. The Korean refused to leave the base of fencing, after a questionable loss to Germany's Britta Heidemann. The referees admitted the mistake, but the result is valid and the Asian was eliminated.

• The Chinese badminton duo formed by Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli, were disqualified for not wanting to win and thus have easier match in the next round.

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