Amelia's Learning Journey: August 2016

If you qualified for the Olympic games you would go wouldn't you? Well, the Olympic games is good but it is also bad because you get robbed by people of Rio that need money.

Some of there people in Rio steal from athletes and tourists from all over the world, they do it because they are poor. The Australian athletes had to evacuate their accommodation because of a fire. While they were outside their laptops, phones and wallets were stolen from their rooms. Some of the athletes are too scared to even go into the local villages in case they get robbed.

One kiwi athlete was kidnapped and taken to a money machine by men dressed as Brazilian police officers. They made him take out all of his money and then they left him there. It would be cool to go to the Olympics, but unfortunately this is not what I would expect or what I would want, so I would not go.

Another reason I would not want to be competing in the Rio Olympics is because I would not want to compete against the Russian drug cheats. The Russians take drugs that make them faster and stronger than the other athletes but they do not work as hard to be there and that does not seem fair.

I think they should all be tested the day before they go and then the Olympic committee could choose whether or not they are clean to compete, and if they are not, then they should not go. I would not like to be beaten by someone who had taken drugs, I would feel like it hadn’t been a fair competition.

I think it would be frightening to do my talent in front of a huge audience. It would be terrible if you did something wrong and the whole audience went “Ohhhhhh!” That would definitely scare me. I think there would be a lot of pressure and I don’t think I would like that. Although it might be nice to represent my country, and visit Rio and show off in front of the crowd, I don’t think I would actually want to if I was selected.

So, you might think going to the Olympics would be really cool, but I think, that it is not really that safe, and there are too many dangerous risks. I think that I wouldn’t like to compete against drug cheats, and I think that I wouldn’t like the pressure of competing in front of such a big crowd. If I was selected to go to the Olympics, I would just say “Sorry, I can’t be there.”