olympics 5

From Port Richey to SochiAthletes and Events

By: Jennifer and Katelyn

ATHLETES

American

Kelly ClarkEvent: SnowboardingOlympic Awards:2 gold

medalsHometown: West Dover, VT

Sarah HendricksonEvent: Ski JumpingHometown: Salt Lake City, UTOlympic Awards: None,

this is her first Olympics!

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Japanese

Mao AsadaEvent: Figure SkatingOlympic Awards: 1Hometown: Nagoya

Yuichi OndaEvent: Cross Country

SkiingBest Finish: 12th place Hometown: Tokyo

Jamaican

Winston WattEvent: BobsledHometown: Birthday: 8-12-1967

Marvin DixonEvent: BobsledHometown: KingstonBirthday: 3-9-1985

Russian

Slava VoynovEvent: HockeyAge: 24Fun Fact: Slava plays for

the LA Kings!

Yulia LipnitskayaEvent: Figure SkatingAge: 15!Fun Fact: Yulia is

homeschooled!

EVENTS

Curling

• Curling is one of 4 Winter Olympic events held indoors

• Curling is a 514 year-old sport that originated in Scotland

• Curling is like a strategic version of shuffleboard that is on ice

Ice Skating

• Figure skating can be done in pairs or by yourself

• Speed skating is a race of who can finish a certain number of laps first

• Speed skating consists of sprints and long-distance

Ski Jumping• Each athlete jumps twice, and the skier with

the farthest jump wins• The only American to win a ski jump gold

medal was Anders Haugen in 1924• Skiers can ski at 60 mph and can fly farther

than the distance of a football field• Women’s ski jumping was only added to the

Olympics in 2011

Biathlon

• Germany has the most gold medals in the biathlon

• The biathlon consists of a course of skiing and shooting at targets

• There are many different distances for the Olympic biathlon

Hockey

• Hockey is a game in which 2 teams hit a puck around an ice rink

• The object of the game is to have one team hit the puck into the other team’s goal more than the other team

• Hockey gear can weigh up to 20 pounds!

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Luge and Bobsled

• Equipment: Bridge, gloves, grips, helmets, kufen, pod, racing suit, shoes, steel runners

• They have no brakes on the sleds, so they only rely on steering!

• Luge is the French word for “sledge”

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Skiing

• The skiing events are: cross country, alpine, freestyle, snowboard, Nordic combined, and ski jumping

• Nordic combined consists of ski jumping and cross country skiing

• The cross country course is 30 kilometers

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Resources

• http://www.ussnowboarding.com/athletes/kelly-clark • http://www.olympic.org • http://i.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=15082/index.html• http://whoislog.info/profile/yuichi-onda.html • http://jamaicanbobsled.com • http://www.nbcolympics.com • http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/4549/ • http://www.infoplease.com/spot/winter-olympics-curling.html

http://www.ussnowboarding.com/athletes/kelly-clark

http://www.olympic.org/

http://i.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=15082/index.html

http://whoislog.info/profile/yuichi-onda.html

http://jamaicanbobsled.com/

http://www.nbcolympics.com/

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/4549/

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/winter-olympics-curling.html