Olympic History

This story is about a poverty stricken sickly child who was diagnosed with a paralyzing disease without a cure. Proving the diagnosis and the prognosis wrong, she walked through disease, then ran into Olympic history.

Just watched the figure skating. It was awesome!

Many high schools are offering courses in sports history. The Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics make great subject matter to explore in sports classes. Here are better sports and Olympics movies to show in the classroom or homeschool.

So many great athletes have laced up sneakers and blazed through the history book and into our memories. Entire books have been authored on the participants, but I will only skim the surface. See how many of these you can remember.

An intense, unforeseen result occurs at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.