Winter Games And SportsAuthor: Cupes Andrei

Teacher: Radu Georgeta

Ski jumping

Ski jumping is, mostly, a winter sport performed on snow where skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump forward and land as far as possible down the hill below. Judges give points both for length of the jump and for the jump style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long (260 to 275

centimetres (102 to 108 in). Ski jumping is a part of the Winter Olympic Games.

The Ski Jumping Complex in Pragelato during the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin.True ski jumping originates in Norway in 1809 when a Norwegian lieutenant launched himself

9.5 metres in the air in front of his soldiers. The first widely known ski jumping competition was held in Oslo in 1879, with Olaf Haugann of Norway setting the first world record for the longest

ski jump at 20 metres.

Ski jump techniques is divided into four sections; 1) In-run, 2) Take-off (jump), 3) Flight and 4) Landing. In each part the athlete is required to pay attention to and practice a particular

technique in order to maximize his or her length and style marks

Figure skating

Figure skating is both an art and a sport, in which people skate around on ice, doing jumps and spins. It is done at the Winter Olympics, and it has its own world championships. The name means to make figures or patterns on the

ice. People skate with music.

In figure skating, sometimes women or men skate alone, or they skate in couples. Couples dancing includes pairs and ice dancing. Pairs skating has

jumps, and sometimes the man lifts the woman in the air. These things are not done in ice dancing. In ice dancing, the woman must be held in the man's

arm. Another kind of figure skating is synchronized skating done in groups.

Hockey

Hockey is a sport. In hockey, players try to get points by hitting an object into the other team's goal with a stick.

There are three main ways that hockey is played. Hockey can refer to:

Ice hockey is played on ice. Players on each team wear ice skates and try to hit a small rubber disc called a hockey puck into the other team's goal. There are 6 players on each team. It can be played indoors or outdoors, but professionals play

indoors in arenas. Ice hockey is one of the most popular sports in the world. It is played in the Winter Olympic

Games.

SnowboardingSnowboarding is a sport that is much like skiing. A person stands on a snowboard and rides down a mountain covered with snow. A snowboard is a flat board with bindings

that hold your feet in place while gliding down the mountain. It is different from skiing because both feet are on one board - like surfing.

Some snowboarders like to ride over jumps and do tricks.

Origin: The snowboard was born in the seventy's with the imagination of different Americans: Sherman Poppen invented the ‘’snurfer ‘’ which is made of two skis fixed

together; Dimitrije Milovich created a snowboard inspired by the surfing board; finally, Jake Burton Carpenter helped by Tom Sims and Chuck Barfoot created the first

snowboard models that makes them very rich. Then, during the eighty's, this sport becomes very popular in Occident. The number of windsurfers and snowboard stations grew up very fast everywhere there is snow and mountains. The snowboard went in the

Olympic program in 1996 and this decision was taken by the council at the annual session in Atlanta. Two years later, some competitions like the Big slalom and the Half-

pipe took place in The Olympic Nagano games.

Bobsleigh

Bobsled or bobsleigh is a sport played during the Winter Olympic Games. It is played by riding on iced tracks with a sled. Modern tracks are made of concrete, coated with ice. Artificial bobsleigh tracks are also available.

International bobsled competitions are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT).[

Skeleton

Skeleton is a fast winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled down a frozen

track while lying face down, during which the rider experiences forces up to 5 g and reaches

speeds over 130 km/h (80 mph). The sport was named from the bony appearance of the sled. It was added to the Olympic program for the 2002 Winter Olympics; previously, it had

been in the Olympic program only in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 1928 and 1948.

Short track speed skating

Short track speed skating has been a contest at the Winter Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. Prior to that, it was a demonstration sport at the 1988 games. The results from the 1988 demonstration competition is not included in the official Olympic statistics. The sport has been dominated by teams from Asia and North America, namely South Korea (IOC code KOR), China (CHN), Canada (CAN) and the United States (USA). Those four countries have won 104 of 120 medals awarded since 1992. South Korea leads the medal tally (and gold medal tally), with 37 medals

including 19 golds since 1992. All but 8 medals (including 4 golds) that South Korea won at the Winter Olympics came from Short-track speed skating. Similarly, 24 of China's 44

Winter Olympics medals are from the sport.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Haralds Silovs of Latvia became the first athlete in Olympic history to participate in both short track (1500m) and long track (5000m)

speed skating, and the first to compete in two different disciplines on the same day.[

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