*Q3: How many gold medals 194 were won in total? *Q4: What percentage of China’s medals were bronze? 28%
Top 10
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Beijing Medal Table (Top 10 Countries)
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*Q5: Thirty six percent of one country’s medals were gold. Which one? Japan *Q6: Forty percent of another country’s medals were silver. Which one? France *Q7: What was the ratio of silver medals to bronze medals for China? 3:4 *Q8: For one country, 2/7 of its medal were gold and 5/14 were silver. What fraction were bronze and what country was it? 5/14 Italy
100 Metres Men’s Final
Place 1 2 Name Usain Bolt Richard Thompson Country Jamaica Trinidad/Tobago Time/Secs 9.69 9.89
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The 2008 Olympic Games (XXIX Olympiad of the modern era) were held in Beijing between (8th – 24th August 2008). A total of 10,500 athletes competed in 302 events in 28 sports. They were the most expensive games ever staged and cost an estimated $40 billion ($40 000 000 000). This compares to the cost of the Athens games in 2004 at $16 billion and to the predicted cost at London in 2012 of around $10 billion. Please note that references to “Team GB” are for brevity only. They do not refer solely to the countries of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) but to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland-: the official IOC title.
United States
Neth. Antilles Jamaica Jamaica
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*Q9: Usain Bolt set a new World record when he won the 100 metre race in Beijing in under 10 seconds to take the gold medal. How much less than 10 0.31 seconds seconds was his time.
Intro
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Beijing Medal Table (Top 10 Countries)
Gold China USA Russia GB Germany Australia Korea Japan Italy France 51 36 21 19 16 14 13 9 8 7 Silver 21 38 23 13 10 15 10 6 10 16 Bronze 28 36 28 15 15 17 8 10 10 17 T 100
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72 47
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46 31 25 28 40
*Q1: What position did Team GB come at Beijing? 4th *Q2: If a gold medal is worth 3 points, a silver medal 2 points and a bronze 1 point how many points did Team GB get? 98
100 Metres
A 400 metres Track and Field Layout
*Q10: What was the difference in time between him and the bronze medalist?
0.22 seconds
*Q11: What was the mean time taken by the two athletes that came 7th and 8th in the race? 10.02 seconds
Gold China USA Russia GB Germany Australia Korea Japan Italy France 51 36 21 19 16 14 13 9 8 7 Silver 21 38 23 13 10 15 10 6 10 16 Bronze 28 36 28 15 15 17 8 10 10 17 T 100