Bradley Shaw

Bradley Shaw.

Bradley Shaw is one of the world's toughest Hockey players;an imposing figure with outstanding defensive organisation and tackling skills.

Bradley Shaw has won one bronze medal in the Olympic games.

With two Olympic games,two commonwealth games and one world cup under his belt

Hailing from Christchurch, Bradley has taken time away from teaching to dedicate his efforts towards gunning for an Olympic medal.

Bradley Shaw Birthplace is Christchurch he was born in 1938 and he is 181 cm.

Archery

Archery

There are 41 sports in the summer Olympics.

Archery is one of the most oldest still practised sports in the Olympics.

In 1200 BC the Hittites and Assyrian shot their bows from chariots to become the most fearsome opponent in battle.

Archery was one of the most favourite sport of the Egyptian pharaohs during the 18th dynasty (1567-13290 BC)

Many centuries later some of the some of the earliest recorded archery tournaments took place during the Zhou (Chou) dynasty (1027-256) in china.

Much later the english writer honoured the longbow for famous contributions to their countries victory’s in the battles of Crecy, Agincourt and Poitier.

Archery started in 1900 summer Olympics and has been contested in 16 olympiads.

Rowing

Rowing

1. Rowing became an olympic event in 1900 at the paris games.
2. There are 14 rowing events at the rowing games.
3. There are six rowing events for women and and their are 8 rowing events for men.
4. NZ has won 21 medals for rowing at the olympics.
5. The sport of rowing has been in existence as long as humans have travelled the water by boat.
6. The first rowed vessels made their appearance more than 4,000 years ago for transporting people and goods over short distances.
7. Rowing was the most popular college sport in America 80 years ago.
8. The Athletics scholarship.net has worked with hundreds of rowers over the past decade
9. One of the oldest college teams in existence is the Oxford men’s rowing team, which began competing in 1815.
10. Our best Olympic rowers are Lisa carrington, Hamish bond , Eric Murray,Jamie Hunter, Alistair Bond, Matthew Dunham , James Lassche and Mahe Drysdale.

11.                            9    Gold         2     Silver      10      Bronze.

Marine worm

Marine Worm

Polychaetes range in length from 0.04 millimetres up to 6 metres and belong to the annelid group - worms whose bodies  are divided into segments that stretch and contract.

Unlike most worms polychaetes are hairy  and there name had come from ancient Greek words poly (meaning many) and the word chaeta means hair or bristles. Polychaetes bristles may be shaped like hooks, oars, or even stinging harpoons.

The front end of a polychaete has many sense organs,including, eyes ,tentacles, and palps. palps are probing structures, which are used to find and handle food .

A polychaetes mouthparts are often tucked away inside its throat.

Tuatara

Thorny Devil

Tangiwai disaster

Kiwi

Korowai