City Hosting 2016 Olympic Games

Hosting olympic is always a dream for the city, but hosting it may be a nightmare for the authorities. As we know it will be the home for the millions of people in those game days. For them city not only need to provide the fun and adventure but also food, accomodation and tranportation.

As we all know that Chicago is the bid city for the 2016 olympic game and all we want that Chicago should win this bid. Considering Chicago's right now situation I think I am not bidding for the Chicago this time. Being in Chicago for almost 4 years I have seen just two season over here one is winter and another is construction. Adding to that city is in deficeit even before winning the bid. How they going to construct new sites for the games, by imposing more taxes on the citizens? That's all I want to know.

---Faiyaz

Go Chicago 2016

In my opinion Chicago will make a good Olympic host city, mostly because of its great cultural diversity and also because the global view that the city offers to its visitors. What's more, transportation is another strong reason for which Chicago should win the bid. If Chicago hosts the 2016 Games it won't take a too big effort to get around the city, because it owns plenty of means of transportation, trains, buses, taxis or you can ride a bike, this being a very common transportation mean for chicagoans. Further on, the architecture, the museums, the art, the theatres, all the great designer stores on the Magnificent Mile will provide an unforgettable time to all the tourists coming to see the Games from all over the world. Another reason that Chicago should be the host city in 2016 is because of its spectacular lakefront parklands and also its iconic skyline and the shoreline of Lake Michigan. All these will, of course, provide sufficient space for all the venues that are going to be built in Chicago, if the city wins the bid.

by Alex

Famous Olympian

The Olympian that stands out the most in my memory is from my country. Romania first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a single participant. The nation first sent a team to compete at the Games in 1924, and has only missed two editions each of the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then.
A memorable moment in Romania's Olympic history and in my mind too, was in 1976 at the Montreal Summer Olympics when Nadia Comaneci's performance on the uneven bars was scored at a 10.0. It was the first time in modern Olympic gymnastics history that the score had ever been awarded. The scoreboards were not even equipped to display scores of 10.0—so Nadia's perfect marks were reported on the boards as 1.00.

by Alex

Famous Olympian

The most famous olympian I can remind of myself is an Anglo-Indian person, who took part in 1900 the first ever appearence of India in olympic games. He was also the first athlete from India and first athlete representing an Asian nation to win an Olympic medal. He won two silver medals in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. He came second in the 200 meters behind John Tewksbury of the United States and second in the 200 meters hurdles behind the legendary Alvin Kraenzlein of the United States. Pritchard set a world record in the second heat of the 100 metre hurdles which was bettered by Kraenzlein in the final. He reached the final of the 110m hurdles where he placed 5th, and participated in 60m and 100m sprint where he failed to qualify for the final.

---Faiyaz

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We are Alex and Faiyaz. Our blog's name is "OLYMPIC TORCH". We came up with this name as the flame is an important symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek God Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lies in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics is Amsterdam, and it has been part of the Olympics Game ever since. The torch relay of modern times which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the game had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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