Friday, August 22, 2008

Iceland at the Olympics

Hi all

And today ( friday )- 12:15 (gmt) iceland will be fighting for the right to play for the gold in Handball - at the olympics in Bejing.
And at that time - nobody will be working - everybody watching on tv .
Big mall in Kopavogur will show the game on a big screen - and some movie theaters will also show the game -
Iceland
will be playing against Spain ( population 40 million ) and in Iceland
( population 300.00 thousand ) the excitement is huge .

Iceland has one three medals in the Olympics - that is total .
One in 1956 ( triple jump ) 1984 ( judo ) and 2000 ( pole voult ).
And this weekend -- we could get lucky !

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