Showing posts with label Group 3 Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Group 3 Olympics. Show all posts

Friday, August 17, 2012

How triathletes get to the Olympics

A maximum of three men and three women may be selected for the New Zealand Triathlon Team.

 The selectors will select athletes for nomination to the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC). The NZOC will select athletes for the Team.

Athletes must submit to a fitness test and/or medical examination

register no later than 6 months prior to the games

 Athletes must qualify through the ITU London Olympic Games Qualifying Criteria (as attached) and will not be eligible to qualify through host nation or tripartite commission Invitation place.

http://www.triathlon.org.nz/index.php/page/london-olympicsNew Zealand has the right to 2 male and 2 female starts for the London Olympics from the ITU London Olympic Games Qualifying Criteria. New Zealand must earn the right to the 3rd male and 3rd female starts. To qualify for the additional (3rd) start New Zealand¡¦s third ranked athlete must qualify New Zealand as the eighth ranked country or higher through the ITU London Olympic Games Qualifying Criteria If there are places remaining,
If any athletes who had been previously selected in Race 1 (or Race 1 additional selection event were to race in Race 2 the NZ selection qualifying place (but not the race place) would roll down to the next previously unqualified person who meets the criteria.

The maximum of three (3) places will be allocated to the first eight (8) NOCs to have three (3) athletes eligible through the ITU Continental Olympic Qualification Events, the 2011 ITU World Olympic Qualification Event and then the ITU Olympic Qualification List (in that order).
 the first placed New Zealand male and female finishers in Race 2 will be eligible for nomination to NZOC providing they finish in the top 8 places in the elite field.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Group 3-Olympic Research

Created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914, the Olympic flag contains five interconnected rings on a white background. The five rings symbolize the five significant continents and are interconnected to symbolize the friendship to be gained from these international competitions. The rings, from left to right, are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors were chosen because at least one of them appeared on the flag of every country in the world. The Olympic flag was first flown during the 1920 Olympic Games.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/greateventsofthecentury/a/olympicfacts.htm

The Five Rings on the Olympic Flag The rings on the Olympic flag represent the five continents of the world that have come together in the Olympic spirit. Every country in the world has at least one of the colors of the rings in their flag, blue, black and red (top colors) ・ yellow, green (bottom colors).

The five continents they count are North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. They do not include Australia, or Antarctica

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_does_the_olympic_flag_have_five_rings#ixzz23lYry9fQ

According to most accounts, the rings were adopted by Baron Pierre de Coubertin (founder of the modern Olympic Movement) in 1913 after he saw a similar design on an artifact from ancient Greece. The five rings represent the five major regions of the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Every national flag in the world includes at least one of the five colors, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green, and red. It is important to emphasize that Pierre de Coubertin never said nor wrote that the colors of the rings were linked with the different continents
The Olympic Flag made its debut at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. At the end of each Olympic Games, the mayor of that host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city. It then rests at the town hall of the next host-city for four years until the Opening Ceremony of their Olympic Games


Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_the_five_interlocking_rings_of_the_Olympic_symbol_represent#ixzz23lfzkIBh

Monday, July 30, 2012

Group 3-Olympics Research-Week 1

Our question is 'Why does the Olympics have its own flag and why does it have five rings on it?'
Our keywords and questions to research this week are;
-five rings on flag
-Olympic flag design
-what kind of pole do they have for the olympic flag?
-why do they have giant rings?
-why do they have a flag?
-how big is there flag?
-how many flags do they have?