Time's 100 Athletes to Watch at the Olympics

Time has released a special feature on the Olympic Games listing the top 100 athletes to watch at the Beijing Summer Olympics. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819129_1819134,00.html

Canada's Medal Count

Sports Illustrated has predicted that Canada will win 15 medals at this summer's Olympics.

The medal results from the 2004 Olympics are located at http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2004/medaltracker/medalTrackerByTotal.html

How many medals do you think Canada will win at the 2008 Olympic Games? Please take our survey at the right of this page.

Where in the World is Beijing?

Find out more about China by clicking http://www.enchantedlearning.com/asia/china/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/beijing.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Beijing_2008_olympic_venues.png#file

An Olympic Activity

Topic: The Olympics/The Olympic Games 2
Greetings! Thank you for visiting our new blog dedicated to the upcoming Olympic Games being held in Beijing, China, beginning on August 8, 2008. This blog will feature a number of activities, articles and features on the Olympics. There will also be interactive surveys and areas to provide feedback.
Click on the link below to complete a vocabulary exercise on the Olympics.
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/vocabulary/esl-olympics-vocabulary2.html

EnglishBaby at the Summer Olympics

(EBaby photo)




Englishbaby, a website dedicated to teaching English worldwide, is featuring information on the Beijing Olympics. You may access the site at http://www.englishbaby.com/news/olympics.

Inspirational Stories about Olympic Athletes

Here are the 10 Top Inspirational Olympic stores, according to Sports Illustrated.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0807/olympics.top.inspirational.stories/content.1.html