Nora the kappo

This is me holding  the kakapo that we got and the adoption certificate. We have adopted Nora for $200 dollars.

Valerie Adams - Olympic Athlete

south otago cross country

 this our grope photo with all of the ones going to  south otago cross country.

this our silly photo 

Student of the week

My Speech

I think that the Russian athletes should have been banned from the Olympic Games because of their drug cheating.  Too many athletes have worked too hard to be beaten by cheats and to have their glory taken away.    

Russian athletes should have be banned from Rio because they are cheating and they are trying to go for gold. Russia always win the olympics because they have taken drugs that make them faster, stronger and fitter.

Russia always wins the sprints and they are cheating in the sprints and it is not fair on the other athletes who have not cheated. Other athletes work really hard to be good without taking drugs, so it is not fair that Russia can come and beat them and win the medals.  

Last time at the Olympics athletes missed out on medals because of cheating Russians. Valerie Adams should have got a gold medal but a lady who cheated with drugs got it instead. When they got the drug tests back the lady was disqualified, but Valerie Adams didn’t get to stand on the podium in front of everybody  and get the national anthem played, instead she just got her medal in the post months later. If that happened to me I would feel sad and angry. 

It doesn’t matter now whether the Russian athletes are drug cheats or they are clean, every time a Russian athlete wins a medal everybody looks at them and wonders if they have cheated. I think that it would have been easier if all Russians had stayed at home.

Cheating at the Olympics is never OK and the Russians have proved that most of them cheat. It isn’t fair to the other athletes if there are cheats in the sports. I think that all of the Russian athletes should have been banned.