Athletics Day 2012

On Monday 29 October and Thursday 1 November 2012 Victoria Avenue School had there Athletics Days.

 On Monday we went to Millenium Stadium on the North Shore. We did the 1500m first up everybody was cheering there house. The person that got first in this event would go to the Remuera Zones. This was a very tough race that in the end it was a close finish. Next up were all the field events. Long Jump was first on the field rotation. My opponenst luckily were not jump to the best ability, so that meant it was a bit easier for to win. In the end I won by 20cm.
Then the rain came and it ended up setting in so the had to cancel it and make it another day.

On Thursday the Victoria Avenue School Year 6 went down to Saint Kentigern's School for boys to finish of our athletics. First we did the 80m sprint it was a close race I got second by 5 milliseconds to Nicky Kroon.Then it was the 100m sprint and yet again  I took the Second place it was race that had that everybody on the edge of there seats to see how  won the race.The final event of the day was the day was everyone's favorite event the house relay . The girls went first and my house is Pohutakawa was favorite to win the boys relay but Karaka were favorite to win the girls relay. But the Pohutakawa ended up winning the race to everyone's surprise. The boys smashed all the other house and won easily.

Sir Wilson Whineray

_{On Tuesday 23 October 2012, Sir Wilson Whineray died at the age of 77 with his family by his side him.}

_{Sir Wilson Whineray was a prop for the All Blacks and played 77 tests from 1957-1965. He became the captain of the team in 1958.}

_{Sir Wilson was a great man that cared about everybody around him and he was a great businessman. He was also an inspirational leader.}

_{I play rugby for the Grammar Junior Rugby Club. Every year Sir Wilson would come to my rugby clubs Prize giving. He was the patron of our Club. People describe him as a perfect gentlemen which is probably why his biography was titled that.}

The highist free fall parachute jumper ever

Longest space dive ever

Monday 15 October 2012

Today Austrian Felix Baumgartner broke the speed of sound in his jump from the edge of space. But he did not set the world record for the longest free fall. He managed to get up to a speed of 1,342 kilometers per hour during the 4 minutes 19 seconds free fall.

Mission control said that it was a near perfect jump from the capsule. He ended up jumping 39,044 meters. They were supposed to jump 36,576 meters but they jumped 8,624 kilometers over what they should have jumped. They took almost two hours to get up to the place where he was going to jump from. Baumgarter had already broken a world record before he jumped. The world record was for the highest balloon jump ever. The person he passed jumped 113,740 in 1961.

The launch of the jump coincided with the 65^th Anniversary of the American pilot Chuck Yeager who broke the speed of sound.

By Flynn Dudson