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- 1. From Port Richeyto Sochi Athletes and Events By: Jennifer and Katelyn
- 3. American Kelly Clark Event: Snowboarding OlympicAwards: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: FigureSkating 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 isone 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 • Figureskating 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 • Eachathlete 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 hasthe 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 isa 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 skiingevents 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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