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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!
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!
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”
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
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