Winter Learning Journey: Be The Inspiration

Stuart Farquhar: Stuart competes in the athletics (javelin throwing) competition at the Olympics. He currently lives in Hamilton but was born and raised in Te Aroha. He has competed for New Zealand at four previous Olympics games. His best ever throw was 86.31 m. That’s a long way! To learn more about Stuart, please read his short biography at: http://www.olympic.org.nz/athletes/stuart-farquhar/

I choose Stuart Farquhar because he is a good javelin thrower and I don't know much about javelin and I would like to learn more about it. Stuart Farquhar has competed in 3 commonwealth games in New Delhi 2010 the best he got was 2nd, he also won 2nd in the University games. That's pretty cool and that's why I would like to meet him. If I meet him I would want to learn how he throws javelin.

Winter Learning Journey: Be The Inspiration

For this activity, please choose one of the athletes listed on the Rio Olympic Athletes page, read about them and then write a short description of them on your blog. In the blog please include their name, their sport, and three interesting facts about them.

Name: Luke Adams.

His Sport: He is a New Zealand football player.

3 Interesting facts: He was born on May 8 1994. He is currently 22 years old. He is the captain for the All Whites under 20. Luke was a member of the U-23 NZ football team. He played at Papua New Guinea in 2015.