London 2012

The summer is fast approaching and this summer there is an event that happens every four years. I am talking about the summer Olympic that are taking place in London, England. The London games are only eighty-eight days away and will start on July 27 through August 12. The London games will have total of twenty-six sports which breakdown into thirty-nine specialties. The London games are expected to have about 205 countries that will take part in 300 events during the two weeks of the games. London, England has hosted the Olympics two other times in 1908 and 1948, so this is the third time. One major difference at these games will be that NBC will be broadcasting all the events live online.

Two sports were eliminated from the Olympic Games and they were softball and baseball.  No new sport was added to London 2012 games but now there will be mixed doubles in tennis and three weight classes in women’s boxing. I cannot wait to see what the U.S does this summer at the London games. I wonder if we can win the total medal count again. Will Michael Phillips top his last Olympic performance from 2008?  Will the USA basketball repeat with the gold medal? So Many questions for the summer games, but we all will have to wait until July 27 to find out.