Michael Phelps Interview (Reported Speech)

Michael Phelps is a very famous swimmer, who won many prizes on the Olympic Games. Now, he said that he is exicted about Michel Phelps Swim School and he is very happy with the programs, trainings and opcions offered by his foundation. He also said that he loves working with children because he is also like a child and he explained that he had worked with children in Boys & Girls Club since 2003, in Make A Wish and others organizations.

He said that his biggest rivals were Ian Crocker, Thorpe y Van den Hoogenband in Atenas and Lochte. Michael said that he hates swimming front stroke, and he would like to try swimming 50m and 100m free style. Michael has reached all the risks he had proposed, but he sais that risks are constantly in evolution, and they aren't always the same, for example, he had proposed himself some specific risks to the Olympic Games in Pekin and they wont be the same for the Olympic Games in London in 2012. He explained that he would like to look back and realized that he had achieved all.

Michael explained that the Olympic Games and all competitions needs really hard work, and he had a lot of trainings and work to do for the Olympic Games in London this year. But he also said that winning the competition is not his unic propose, he said that there are many ways to help people in his sport, and they aren't only with train and competitions. He had spent many time and energy since Pekin and Rome working in initiatives out of the swimming pool with his foundation and swim shools, creating some great programs to benefict this sport. After the Olympic Games in Pekin, once completed his olympic cicle, he said that he would like to work in the business world and he would try to join that with his sport and with his trainer's help.

Sara Prendes

Differents points of view

The Olympics games are something that everybody likes, just for holding their teams or for seeing matches or competitions on TV. But this opinion changes if the Olympics games are going to be celebrated in your hometown. There are very different opinions. You can divide the people in the ones that want to celebrate the Olympic games in their home town and the ones that no.

The ones who would like to celebrate the Olympics games in their home town can be for many reasons. Maybe it is because they work at a hotel and they would win much money if the Olympics games celebrated in their home town. Or because they would win more money with their jobs that in a normal month. There are the ones that just want the Olympics games for supporting their team because they are just hooligans.

The other group who wouldn’t like to celebrate the Olympics game in their hometown can be maybe because if that happened the city would be full of works. The Olympics games are visited for many people and maybe some people don’t like to have their city collapsed, or they don’t like sport.

There is a special minority. The ones who do not care about the Olympic Games. They just continue doing their normal life as if nothing was happening until it finishes.

Nicolas Capelastegui

Olympic Games short story

-          Hello to everybody, Cody Brown retransmitting with is partner and friend Gary McLayer.

-          Hello Cody. Today is THE DAY, the Olympic Games Africa 2020 it´s the first time that Africa participates in the Olympics.

-          Yes Gary, 4 years before, Africa sent the ‘Man on wheels’: Menelik Barju, to Brasil´s Olympic Games and He got the record, the podium and the gold medal in the relay challenge.

-          Today Africa don´t send any representation, but this record is here and it seems a difficult challenge for all the competitors. Only one man has the hope of everybody, Blade Radcliff the Black American Man, he was the champion of the 100 meter dash in United States. He is a very fast man and he is the hope of his team.

-          I must tell you something Gary. Advertisers must be proud of this man, he promoted the sneakers of Nike and they were a success in sales.

-          Yes Cody, advertisers are hunting favorites in the competition. In the other hand, on the weightlifting challenge there are many favorites to win. Chinese, American, Russian… But who has got the big group of fans in the terraces is Spain.

-          Yeah, it´s something strange, normally Spain isn´t the favorite in this kind of competition.

-          This year, white man are outstanding in this kind of challenge, always black people are the favorite in weightlifting.

-          And United States sent white people, it´s strange too.

-          Look at this Cody, in that chair, the president of the Olympic Games, Jacques Rogge. And there is the moment, the turn on of the Olympic Torch; this is a special moment Cody…

-          Oh, look, here. The new pet of the Olympic Games. THE LOBSTER JAKE! The ‘Red Passion’ here, everybody wants a photo with this funny pet and one of his juices. This animal will make a lot of money here Gary.

-          There is Blade Radcliff, who starts the race with shorts.


Sara Prendes

Gender Discrimination

The gender discrimination has been a polemic at the Olympic Games since they started and this isn´t exceeded yet.  Along the history of the modern Olympic Games women has been introduced in the various sports of the Olympic program. But it has also been an element of decoration for the competition.

Olympic committee includes that nobody can be discriminated because of gender, but it also giving more privileges to men's sport.

They have many complains, because Olympics has less than 10 percent of female representation.  The number of countries that hasn´t got female representation is being reduced. For example: In Sidney 2000, 9 countries hadn´t got female representation, in Athens 2004, six countries hadn´t got female representation and in Beijing 2008 there was an improve, more than 42 percent of representation were women.

Nowadays, only Arabian States don´t send women to these kinds of competitions. But it can be the first time; The Organization of the Olympic Games is thinking about the idea of allowing women to participate at London´s 2012. But Saudi Arabia persuade in their idea of ban women in the competition, the reply of people was: ‘We do not wan´t Saudi Arabia at London 2012’

Saudi Arabia, Quatar and Brunei never sent a woman to the Olympics. Only three countries along the competition. They have a special religious and beliefs, that could be the reason why they don´t send women.  But this hasn´t justification and it will change through the time. 

Pablo Lavilla

Cheat at the Olympics

Spanish basketball team with disabilities won in 2000 the gold medal in the Paralympics games of Sidney. But some time later the judges discovered that some of the Spanish basketball team with disabilities weren’t disabled. The one who told the judges that 10 of the 12 member of the team didn’t suffered any disability was a journalist who was all time with the team during the competition.

The judges disqualified the Spanish team, the judges notice that it was very difficult to prove if someone was mental disabled or not, so they decided to stop doing the Olympic games of basketball for mental disabled people. One of the players of the Spanish team confessed that they weren’t the only team that plays with not disabled people. He said that in swimming, some athletes and ping pong too.

Nicolás Capelastegui

Ancient and Modern Olympic Games

The ancient Olympic Games were a part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus. The festival and the games were held in Olympia, a rural sanctuary site in the western Peloponnesos.

The first recorded Olympic competition occurred in 776 B.C. It had only one event, the one-stade (approximately 630-foot or 192-meter) race, which was won by a cook named Coroebus. This was the start of the first Olympiad, the four-year period by which the Greeks recorded their history.

Athletic competition became so important to the Greeks that the Olympic festivals were a peaceful influence.


All athletes were required to take an oath that they would observe all the rules and standards. Although, the luxurious facilities offered to athletes, all had to remain amateurs. That is, they had to pay their own expenses, and they could receive no monetary awards.

The most famous athlete of the Ancient Games was Milo of Croton, who lived in the 500 B.C. He won the wrestling crown six times.

The first Modern Olympic Games ocurred in April 1896, attracted athletes from the United States, Great Britain, and 11 other nations. Only 42 events in 9 sports were scheduled for these games.

The Olympic Games scheduled for Berlin in 1916 were cancelled because of World War I; those scheduled for 1940 and 1944 were cancelled because of World War II.

The games of 1904 had little international significance because most of the participants were from the United States, more and more nations have entered teams in the Olympics. The of participating athletes has grown, from the 285 who competed at Athens in 1896 to approximately 10,600 who competed in Barcelona in 1992.

The values of the modern Olympic Games are:

Respect – fair play; knowing one’s own limits; and taking care of one’s health and the environment

Excellence – how to give the best of oneself, on the field of play or in life; taking part; and progressing according to one’s own objectives

Friendship – how, through sport, to understand each other despite any differences

The different sports which will be played at the Olympic Games are:

• Archery
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Beach Volleyball
• Boxing
• Canoe Slalom
• Canoe Sprint
• Cycling - BMX
• Cycling - Mountain Bike
• Cycling - Road
• Cycling - Track
• Diving
• Equestrian
• Fencing
• Football
• Gymnastics - Artistic
• Gymnastics - Rhythmic
• Handball
• Hockey
• Judo
• Modern Pentathlon
• Rowing
• Sailing
• Shooting
• Swimming
• Synchronised Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Taekwondo
• Tennis
• Trampoline
• Triathlon
• Volleyball
• Water Polo
• Weightlifting
• Wrestling

Pablo Lavilla

Olympic Games London 2012 - Comenius Project

Olympic games, London 2012. Comenius Project.