here is a nice poster of many of the pieces of athlete equipment that are now being used in the London Olympics.
Month: July 2012
London Olympics Opening Ceremony
Here are a few pictures from the London Olympics opening ceremony.
Love it or hate it?
London Olympic Park, view from above
It’s almost time for the London Olympic Games to begin.
The Olympic Stadium in the Olympic Park is ready, but it might rain during the opening ceremony!
Olympic Ring crop circles
And we all thought that the Olympic Rings were designed for the first modern olympics in 1896.
These alien crop circles which can be seen in Richmond Park, London prove that the five olympic rings are not man-made.
Yellow Park
Dorrigo National Park in Australia looks so yellow in the morning light.
Rhossili Bay
Rhossili Bay in Glamorgan, Wales, UK is very violet. It has been voted the best beach in the UK.
Related articles
- What is the best Beach in the UK?, Wales (visitwales.co.uk)
London, view from above
A nice upstream picture of the River Thames winding through the heart of London.
And here’s another, with the London Eye in the centre and Big Ben to the right.
Baby Panda
A tiny panda can be seen clinging to it’s mother.
This panda cub was born 3 days ago in Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan. And here is a close-up of the baby panda, which should start to get its black markings in about 3 weeks.
Related articles
- New baby panda for Japanese zoo (bbc.co.uk)
- Panda born at popular Tokyo zoo for first time in 24 years (independent.co.uk)
Vertical Ship
This is a ship which has just started to flip into a vertical position.
And this is how it ends, in a completely vertical plane.
This ship, known as FLIP, is an ocean research ship, but it is not new, in fact it is now 50 years old.
Related articles
- Bizarre ‘flipping’ research ship turns 50 (news.cnet.com)
- VIDEO: A look inside the vertical ship (bbc.co.uk)