The document profiles American, Japanese, Jamaican, Russian, and other winter Olympic athletes competing in events such as snowboarding, figure skating, cross country skiing, bobsled, hockey, curling, luge, biathlon, ski jumping, speed skating, and alpine skiing. It provides details on athletes like their hometowns, ages, Olympic awards or best finishes. It also summarizes the rules and equipment used for sports like curling, ice skating, ski jumping, biathlon, hockey, bobsled, luge, skiing and Nordic combined. Resources for further information are listed at the end.

1. From Port Richey to Sochi
Athletes and Events
By: Jennifer and Katelyn

3. American
Kelly Clark
Event: Snowboarding
Olympic Awards:2 gold
medals
Hometown:
West Dover, VT
Sarah Hendrickson
Event: Ski Jumping
Hometown:
Salt Lake City, UT
Olympic Awards:
None, this is her first
Olympics!

4. Japanese
Mao Asada
Event: Figure Skating
Olympic Awards: 1
Hometown: Nagoya
Yuichi Onda
Event: Cross Country
Skiing
Best Finish: 12th place
Hometown: Tokyo

5. Jamaican
Winston Watt
Event: Bobsled
Hometown:
Birthday: 8-12-1967
Marvin Dixon
Event: Bobsled
Hometown: Kingston
Birthday: 3-9-1985

6. Russian
Slava Voynov
Event: Hockey
Age: 24
Fun Fact: Slava plays for
the LA Kings!
Yulia Lipnitskaya
Event: Figure Skating
Age: 15!
Fun Fact: Yulia is
homeschooled!

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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!

13. Luge and Bobsled
• Equipment:
Bridge, gloves, grips, helmets, kufen, pod, raci
ng suit, shoes, steel runners
• They have no brakes on the sleds, so they only
rely on steering!
• Luge is the French word for “sledge”

14. 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

15. Resources
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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