Badminton | Physical Education

Welcome to another post on my blog. In PE today, we played Badminton.

So firstly, we did a few warm-up activities that would charge us up. There were several activities that were given that we had to do such as, burpees - 10, push-ups - 5, planks - 5, reverse planks - 5, skipping ropes - 60, running on the spot - 30s and more. 

Next, we set up to play Badminton. First, we got the poles and nets ready, then the rackets and the shuttlecock, then we started playing for half an hour. 

Badminton
Credit: https://www.cobham.school.nz/

What Had We Done

On Tuesday, we had been with our sport group and versed SH's sport team. So, I was in Touch with Christian, Aisa, David, Travis and more. Aisa was the coach of the team because he knew heaps of things. We had modified the game and played Ripper Rugby, but safe. We were not allowed to tackle so people wouldn't get hurt. So today, because it was rainy 🌧, we had to write the reflection of what we had done on Tuesday. Next Tuesday, we are going to present our sport to other sport teams. It was really fun. So here are the questions:

• What did you do on Tuesday?
• We played in our sport groups.
• Within your sport group what worked well?
• Every member of our team contributed to the game. 
• What do you need to change for next time?
• We need to take the game more seriously. Because it was a flop.
• What are you looking forward to when you present?
• We will try our personal best at Touch and let others know how to play Touch.

I hope you like my reflection on what happened on Tuesday!! Comment down below if you've played Touch before or you want to play Touch. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

"It's The End"

It's the end of the Commonwealth Games. The next Commonwealth Games will be in Birmingham in 2022. I will post about information about the 2022 Commonwealth Games soon. Three posts ago I posted about the Commonwealth Games and this years Commonwealth Games. My last post was about the medal standings 2 days before the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. Below is the final rankings of this years Commonwealth Games.

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	80	59	59	198
2	England	45	45	46	136
3	India	26	20	20	66
4	Canada	15	40	27	82
5	New Zealand	15	16	15	46
6	South Africa	13	11	13	37
7	Wales	10	12	14	36
8	Scotland	9	13	22	44
9	Nigeria	9	9	6	24
10	Cyprus	8	1	5	14
11	Jamaica	7	9	11	27
12	Malaysia	7	5	12	24
13	Singapore	5	2	2	9
14	Kenya	4	7	6	17
15	Uganda	3	1	2	6
16	Botswana	3	1	1	5
17	Samoa	2	3	0	5
18	Trinidad and Tobago	2	1	0	3
19	Namibia	2	0	0	2
20	Northern Ireland	1	7	4	12
21	The Bahamas	1	3	0	4
22	Papua New Guinea	1	2	0	3
23	Fiji	1	1	2	4
24	Pakistan	1	0	4	5
25	Grenada	1	0	1	2
26	Bermuda	1	0	0	1
27	Guyana		0	0	1
28	British Virgin Is.	1	0	0	1
29	Saint Lucia	1	0	0	1
30	Bangladesh	0	2	0	2
31	Sri Lanka	0	1	5	6
32	Cameroon	0	1	2	3
33	Dominica	0	1	1	2
34	Isle of Man	0	1	0	1
35	Mauritius	0	1	0	1
36	Mauru	0	1	0	1
37	Malta	0	0	2	2
38	Vanuatu	0	0	2	2
39	Cook Islands	0	0	1	1
40	Ghana	0	0	1	1
41	Norfolk Island	0	0	1	1
42	Seychelles	0	0	1	1
43	Solomon Islands	0	0	1	1

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The Best Moments of the Commonwealth Games

Duffy claims it!

It was the women's triathlon and Flora Duffy won the first gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games, at Southport Broadwater Parklands on Thursday 5 April. Flora Duffy finished in a time of 56 minutes and 50 seconds. 

Also Duffy claims in her country history books as the first female Commonwealth Games gold medalist. 

Flora Duffy claims the first gold medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games
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Record Breakers

In the women's 4x100 freestyle relay Australia broke its own record in the first day of the competitions.

The Australian quartet lead off with a starting with Shayna Jack and Bronte Campbell. Emma McKeon managed to extend to two body-lengths before handing over to former 100m world record holder Cate Campbell. 

The Australian women's 4x100 relay team celebrate their new word record
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Who's the Fittest Woman on Earth?

Now she is the fittest woman on earth and Australia's Tia-Clair Toomey is a Commonwealth Games champion after the victory of the women's 58kg weightlifting category.

Toomey claimed gold medal on the last lift of the competition. Lifted a 114kg gave her a gold medal by just 1kg over second place Canadian Tali Darsigny.

Tia-Clair Toomey's celebration after winning her gold medal on the last competition
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Who's the Youngest one there?

Anna Hursey playing table tennis

Anna Hursey from Wales was the youngest competitor in the 2018 Commonwealth Games at the age of 11. But she showed age is just a number competing in table tennis.

History made at Carrara Stadium

Michelle-Lee Ahye celebrates after she gets gold

Trinidad and Tobago's Michelle-Lee Ahye became the first woman from Trinidad and Tobago to win 100m Commonwealth Games and the nation's first gold medalist since Ato Bolden won the men's 100m race in 1998.

In the men's 100m final, Akani Simbine won gold a time of 10:03 seconds. It marks the first time in 20 years that an athlete from a Caribbean country has not held the title of the Commonwealth's fastest man.

Cook Island bowl in the record books

The Cook Island won its first gold medal in the Commonwealth Games history when Aidan Zittersteign and Taiki Paniani won bronze in the Lawn Bowls men's pair competition. 

Aidan Zittersteijn and Taiki Paniani from Cook Island celebrate gold medal

Joelle King wins Squash Gold

New Zealand's Joelle King won New Zealand's first individual Squash gold medal. After beating eight time world champion Nicol David to earn a place in the goal medal match she defeated England's Sarah-Jane Perry 3-2 to secure the title.

Amanda Landers-Murphy and Joelle King of New Zealand celebrates winning the Women's Doubles gold
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An Australian Champion

Australia's Kathryn Mitchell broke the Commonwealth Games and Australian record on her first javelin throw and then promptly broke down when she realised she had won the gold medal.

Her throw of 68.92m was the longest throw in the world for 5 years.

Kathryn Mitchell of 35 year old started her career at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in 2006, but she finished sixth in Melbourne, fifth at the Delhi 2010 Games and fourth at Glasgow 2014.

Kathryn Mitchell gets congratulated as she wins gold by silver medalist Kelsey-Lee Roberts

An emotional victory for the British Virgin Islands

Kyron McMaster won British Virgin Islands first gold medal in an emotional 400m hurdles race. 

Kyron McMaster wins British Virgin Islands first ever gold medal

The Oldest gold medal winner

Ken Hanson from Australia has been Australia's oldest gold medal winner at the Commonwealth Games after making his debut at the age of 68. Hanson has won gold for is B6/B7/B8 triples dramatically with the last bowl of the match.

Ken Hanson competes during the Para-Sport Triples B6/B7/B8 Lawn Bowls
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That's a Close Win

England defeated Australia in the last second of a exciting and a historic netball final 52-51.

Helen Housby hit the match winning goal in the last second. There were wild scenes as England celebrated their first netball gold medal.

Helen Housby, who scored the final second and her England teammates celebrate at full time
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