The Olympic Winter Games

Sochi 2014Выполнил ученик 8 класса МБОУ СОШ с. Березовка 1-я Тимофеев ЕвгенийРуководитель: Корнеева Ольга Александровна, учитель английского языка

“Only those sports that are practiced on snow or ice are considered as winter sports”states the Olympic Charter

The Olympic Games are the most important sporting event in the world. Hundreds of athletes prepare for it their whole lives and those who make it to the Olympic podium become an example to millions of others. The modern Olympic Games have a history that dates back thousands of years and are currently at the very peak of their development.

About Olympic Games

The 2014 Olympic Winter Games will be the first time that the Russian Federation will have hosted the Winter Games; the Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow. The host city Sochi has a population of 400,000 people and is situated in Krasnodar, which is the third largest region in Russia.

The Games will be organised in two clusters: a coastal cluster for ice events in Sochi, and a mountain cluster located in the Krasnaya Polyana Mountains. This will make it one of the most compact Games ever, with around 30 minutes travel time from the coastal to mountain cluster.

The Sochi Olympic Park will be built along the Black Sea coast in the Imeretinskaya Valley, where all the ice venues such as the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the Maly Ice Palace, the Olympic Oval, the Sochi Olympic Skating Centre, the Olympic Curling Centre, the Central Stadium, the Main Olympic Village and the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre, will be built anew for the 2014 Games. The Park will ensure a very compact concept with an average distance of 6km between the Olympic Village and the other coastal venues.

The Central Stadium

The Bolshoi Ice Palace

The Maly Ice Palace

the Olympic Oval

The Sochi Olympic Skating Centre

The Olympic Curling Centre

The mountain cluster in

Krasnaya Polyana

The Olympic Games in Sochi will be holding events in 15 disciplines of 7 winter sports:• Biathlon• Bobsleigh: Bobsleigh and Skeleton• Curling• Ice Hockey• Luge• Skating: Figure Skating, Short Track Speed Skating and Speed Skating• Skiing: Alpine, Cross Country, Nordic Combined, Ski Jumping, Freestyle and Snowboard

The Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi are going to be unique: no other winter Olympics in the world has ever been able to boast such a rich sporting program. It will be a record-breaking Games both in terms of the total number of sporting events, and in terms of the number of new sports featuring in the program - there will be no fewer than 12! As a result, the total number of sporting events in the program will be 98, meaning that there will be the same number of medal sets to be won.

«Hot. Winter. Yours.»