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Tarzan the hero

Marathon heroes

Olympic Heroes

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Have you ever heard of TarzanTarzanTarzanTarzan?

Tarzan lived in the jungle with the apes and always took the side of those who were weak and needed his help.


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TarzanTarzanTarzanTarzan was the title of a story book that was written one hundred years ago. It wasn’t long before Tarzan became a comic book character and boys everywhere were reading about his jungle adventures.

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Around seventy years ago, the Tarzan stories were made into films and an American called Johnny Johnny Johnny Johnny WeissmullerWeissmullerWeissmullerWeissmuller played the part of Tarzan.

Johnny Weismullerbecame famous as Tarzan.

Tarzan became a hero in lots of films.


But, before Johnny Weissmuller became a hero in the Tarzan films, he had taken part in two Olympic Games.

He competed in the 1924 and the 1928 Olympic Games.

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In Paris in 1924, he won three Olympic gold medals for swimming.

He was 19 years old.

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Johnny Weissmuller became an Olympic hero long before he became a hero in the Tarzan films.

Four years later, in 1928 in Amsterdam, he won two Olympic gold medals for swimming and a bronze medal as a member of the water-polo team.SAMPLE SLIDE


Do you remember the story of Wanda Summers?

Can you remember which sports she enjoyed and which sport she really didn’t want to have to give up?


Wanda Summers’ favourite sport is running. She loves to run in marathons but not just any marathons, Wanda loves Ultra Marathons.

When she ran in the Gobi Desert Ultra-Marathan, she ran 150 miles, six times longer than a normal marathon but what isisisis a marathonmarathonmarathonmarathon?


In 2012 the Olympic Games will take place in London and athletes from all over the world will take part.

One of the Olympic events is the 26 mile marathonmarathonmarathonmarathon.

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This map shows the route for the 2012 Olympic MarathonOlympic MarathonOlympic MarathonOlympic Marathonin London.

Runners from many different countries will take part in the marathon.


The word ‘marathonmarathonmarathonmarathon’ means a long-distance race. It’s a word that comes from ancient Greece and is the name of a Greek city where a fierce battle took place.


When a small Greek army defeated a much larger army from Persia and saved Athens from being attacked, Athens became the most important city in Greece.


News of this fierce battle was taken by a fast runner to Athens, about 26 miles away. It was the only way to deliver urgent wartime messages in those days.SAMPLE SLIDE


The most famous wartime message carrier was called Pheidippides.

He is said to have run 26 miles from a battlefield at Marathon in full armour, to tell the king and the people of Athens that their army had won.


Pheidippedes had run almost 200 miles in two days carrying urgent messages for the army.

Inspite of his heroic efforts, when the battle was over and he arrived in Athens with news of their victory, poor Pheidippedes dropped dead from exhaustion!


More than 100 years ago a special Olympic Stadium was built in Athens, Greece. It was built for the 1896 Olympic Games.

It was intended to look like like the ancient stadium that had been built there almost 2000 years before. That stadium was Olympia.


Long, long ago, men from all over Greece came to Olympia to compete in a great athletics festival in honour of the god Zeus. The games happened once every four years and became known as the Olympic Games because they were held in Olympia.

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In 1895, a Frenchman called Baron Pierre de Coubertin got together with other important people and they decided it was time the Olympic Games began again.

So, they travelled to Greece to persuade the Greeks to hold the games in Athens where they had been held long ago.

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They also decided that since the games would be held in Greece, they should organise a marathon in honour of the Greek soldier Pheidippides.


When the modern Olympic Games began in Greece in1896, the marathon became an Olympic event.

The winner of the first modern Olympic marathon event was a Greek postal worker called Spiridon Louis. The Greek crowd made him their hero because he was the only Greek to win any of the track and field events.


Twelve years later, the Italian, Dorando Pietri was in first place as he staggered towards the finishing line of the 1908 London Olympic marathon.

He was so exhausted that he fell over many times and, as the second placed man got nearer and nearer, officials helped him over the line to win.

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But, because the officials had helped him over the line, the exhausted Dorando Pietri was disqualified and the second placed man, Johnny Hayes, was declared the winner and awarded the gold medal.

But that wasn’t the end of Dorando Pietri’s story………..


Queen Alexandra, who had been watching the marathon, was so impressed by his heroic efforts to finish the race that, the very next day, she presented him with a silver

cup.

From that day on he became a hero. Not because he’d lost his first place, but because he didn’t give up.



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