Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts

Monday, March 8, 2010


The opening of the Olympics in Vancouver started very good but turned to a fail of peoples expectation. The money that were supposed to be used were more than the previous Olympic in China. but the China's opening was much better then that in Vancouver. People say that the opening in China despite of the fact that China is the grates producer of fireworks didn't used real fireworks but used animations instead even thought it turned to be better and cheaper then the one in Vancouver. The biggest mistake was that one of the torch statue didn't open which was a huge disaster.
But they still had some good ideas like the singer surrounded by candles and everybody holding a candle, also the sheet that was pooled up with all the lights on it that looked like flying birds. But the China's opening was much grater with all the effects and the fire that got around the stadium. Also there were a lot of dancers that were in remarkable harmony with each other.

Bobsleigh




Bobsleigh is a winter sport which was discovered in 1860. It is found in England but the first track was made in Switzerland. First were straight lines and the bobsleigh was not controled. The races were influenced only by the speed which competitors reach in the beginning by pushing the sleigh forward. Then sport developed and they begun building new tracks with curves where the high of the trackwas bigger to be saver for the competitors. Bolids were made to can be controled from the driver who sits in front of the sleigh. There are four slides under the sleigh and first pair of them are controled from the driver who uses wheel to turn the bolid in different sides. This sport have participated in the Olympic games since the 1924 year when this sport reached our days level. Now this sport is only developed to be safer for the competitors. There are two types of bolids for different number of people. There is a bobsleigh with four person whose weight is 630 killograms and other one with two persons whose weight is 385. Because of its weight the bolid with five persons reaches higher speed in the race. Firstly because they are four people which push the bolid and second the havier bolid is faster because of different forces which influence it. During a race the watch counts every thousand of a second because bolids finish with a small distance between them. This mean that a small mistake in every moment could put the team on the end of the list. During the streinghten the racers should get in the bulid in appropriate time becuase they loose important seconds.
During the last Olympic games was entered in new 5 placed bolide. Although this sport gets savier every year 3 persons loose their lifes per year. This year at the winter olympic games one competitor dead during the training for the next race. He jumped from the curve and there was no chance for life because he broke his neck. This sport is dangerous but interesting and with lot of fens so more and more players are fighting for the world champion cup.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Olympics

Results from the Winter Olympic in Vancouver 2010:

_________Gold__Silver_ Bronze_Total
1:Canada__ 14 ___ 7_____ 5 ____26
2:Germany_10___ 13 ____7 ____ 30
3:USA______9 ___15____ 13____
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Ski Slalom and the Most Important about the Olympic Games


Slalom is a winter sport wich is included in the winter Olympic games. The Olympic games began in 1894 and slalom is one of the main sports and participated from the beginning. The olympic games were made as competion between the countries in the whole world. Everyone was invited to participate. Then was made as competition only between professional players. There are to types of Olympic games winter and summer and each one take turns every four years. The olympic games were made similar to the ancient greek games which begun 8 c. A.D.



In olympic games participate different games and the first three players take medals for winning the games. The countries give money to the best players to perticipate and make their coutry more popular. Usually rich countries are better in the Olympic games because they can buy good players and give them expensive medecine which give them more strength. It is unfair but you see that they use drugs because noone can not get over thi9s amazing records but you see every year how their getting bigger and bigger. Doctors can not stop because other specialist which work for the country work hard to find a way to hide the drugs and not to be seen by the juries.

Slalom is one of the most interesting sports in the Olympic games because of the great speed with which the skis go down the track. There are three types of slalom. The first one which is called only slalom is that players must go down and pass trough the sticks which are two types blue and red and you should go trough each pair and if you pass failing to go around the stick you are punished with five seconds and then you get at almoast at the end of the list. After them are only competitors which fail to get to the end of the truck because they fell down before. Also racers go trough the doors between the sticks most closely to the stick near the center of the track because this would help them not loosing speed and makes the distance smaller. The Giant slalom is with bigger curve and this mean that competitors go to a higher speed. Ski slalom is fast speed game which have a lot of fens and people come from the world to watch the best players in the olympic games.