Winter Olympic Games - SOCHI - 2014
Figure skating
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Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform spins, jumps, moves in the field, and other elements and moves on figure skates. The four Olympic disciplines are men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Non-Olympic disciplines include synchronized skating and four skating.
The sport is also associated with show business. Major competitions generally conclude with exhibition galas, in which the top four, sometimes five, skaters or teams from each discipline perform non-competitive programs for the audience. Many skaters, both during and after their competitive careers, also skate in ice skating shows which run during the competitive season and the off-season.
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Biathlon
Russia was the dominant
force in biathlon from
the Olympic start in 1960.
Russian teams won every Olympic gold in biathlon relay.
What is Biathlon?
Biathlon is a Winter Olympic sport which combines cross country skiing with target shooting. There are six competition formats: individual race, sprint, pursuit,mass start, relay and mixed relay.
Biathlon has its origin in Norway
as a training for soldiers. Called military
patrol, the combination of skiing and
shooting was contested at the
Olympic Winter Games in 1924
and then demonstrated in
1928, 1936 and 1948.
During the mid-1950s
biathlon was introduced into
the Soviet and Swedish winter
sport and was widely enjoyed by the public and in 1960 the sport was finally included in the Olympic Games.
Biathlon was added to
the Olympic program at the 1960
Squaw Valley Games with a men's
20km individual event. In 1968, in
Grenoble the four-man relay was added
and the sprint competition was added in
Lake Placid in 1980. In 1992 women made their Olympic biathlon debut in Arbertville.
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The outstanding Olympic champions.
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The word hockey comes from the old French word “hocquet,” meaning “stick.” The British most likely brought the idea of using a stick to propel a snowball along the ice of a pond or lake to North America in the 1600 or 1700s. In 1879, college students at McGill University in Montreal organized competitions and developed the first known set of hockey rules.
Ice hockey is one of the most action-paced of sports, demanding skillful skating, expert stick-handling, and masterly puck control. Hockey is a team game played on an ice surface, known as a rink. Six players — a goalkeeper, two defence-men, and three forwards — constitute a side.
While men's ice hockey made its Olympic debut at the 1920 Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp, it was moved to the Winter Games since the beginning of 1924 Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix. Women’s ice hockey debuted at the Nagano 1998 Olympic Winter Games.
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Men's ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and permanently added to the Winter Olympic Games in 1924.[1] The United States has participated in 21 of 22 tournaments, sending 42 goaltenders and 271 skaters.
The Russian ice hockey team won its fourth straight gold medal at Innsbruck in 1976.
In 2002, the Canadian men's ice hockey team won the gold medal 50 years to the day after the last time they'd done so. The Canadian women's ice hockey team also won, with USA second in both cases. A member of the men's team, Jarome Iginia became the first black male gold medal winner at the Winter Olympics.
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Snowboarding is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
The snowboarding riders have three specialities: the giant slalom, the half-pipe and snowboard cross.
Competitors race against each other down a course with jumps, beams and other obstacles.
Snowboarding came from the USA.
In Russia snowboarding appeared in 1980s.
In Switzerland and Austria snowboarding is included in the school program.
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Snowboarding
Russian snowboarders conquered Caucasus, Altai, Kamchatka, Ural, Sakhalin.
only for the brave and the desperate
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World Snowboarding Legends
Karine Ruby
(France)
Died in 2009
Junny Simmen
(Switzerland)
Ross Rebaliati
(Canada)
Kelly Clark
(the USA)
Isabell Blanc
(France)
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What is figure skating?
SOME FACTS FROM THE HISTORY OF FIGURE SKATING
It is interesting that figure skating has developed from a practical way to get around on ice into the elegant mix of art and sport it is today.
The Dutch were arguably the earliest pioneers of skating. They began using canals to maintain communication by skating from village to village as far back as the 13th century. Skating eventually spread across the channel to England, and soon the first clubs and artificial rinks began to form. Passionate skaters included several kings of England, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon III and German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Two Americans are responsible for the major developments in the history of the sport. In 1850, Edward Bushnell of Philadelphia revolutionised skating when he introduced steel-bladed skates allowing complex manoeuvres and turns. Jackson Haines, a ballet master living in Vienna in the 1860s, added elements of ballet and dance to give the sport its grace.
Figure skating is the oldest sport on the Olympic Winter Games programme. It was contested at the 1908 London Games and again in 1920 in Antwerp. Men’s, women’s, and pairs were the three events contested until 1972. Since 1976, ice dancing has been the fourth event in the programme, proving a great success.
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Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates.It is an official event in the Winter Olympic Games. In languages other than English and Russian, figure skating is usually referred to by a name that translates as "artistic skating "
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The main types of ski races:
- Competition with separate start
- Competition from mass start (mass start)
- Pursuit (Pursuit, the system Gundersen)
- Relay
- Individual sprint
- Team Sprint
Olympic ski types were included in all the Olympic Winter Games since 1924
The greatest success in ski racing athletes achieved the Scandinavian countries and the USSR (Russia).
Cross - Country Skiing
Cross Country Skiing - Ski race at a certain distance on a specially prepared track among a certain category.
Basic styles of movement on skis - a classic style and free style.
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King of skis - distance athlete who won 30 and 50 km. Tarlif Haug first ever been ewarded this title. The birth of the Russian "King of skis" was held at the XX World Championships in Falun (Sweden, 1954.). It was a 24-year-old Vladimir Kuzin, who won at distances of 30 and 50 km and the ski marathon. Top Russian skiers: Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova, Vyacheslav Vedenin Sergey Saveliev, Nikolai Zimyatov, Alex Prokurorov, Vyalbe Elena, Lubov Egorova.
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Vladimir Kuzin
Vyalbe Elena
Vyacheslav Vedenin
Lubov Egorova
Galina Kulakova
Alex Prokurorov
Skeleton
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Skeleton - descent on an ice trench on sledge. The primogenitor of skeleton considered descent from mountains on a toboggan extended among the Canadian Indians.Skeleton has twice been in the Olympic program, both times at its traditional home of St. Moritz, in 1928 and 1948. However, skeleton for both men and women has also been added to the 2002 Olympic program.
The Russian athletes took part for the first time in competitions on skeleton in 1994 at World Cup stages in Innsbruck and Saint-Moritz — S. Safronov (Moscow) and P. Gerasimov (Moscow), and also in the World Cup in Altenberg. Alekxander Tretiakov was the third in Vancouver Olympic Games-2010
Skeleton
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Our best Olympic hopes
Alexander Tretiakov - the winner of the Cup of Russia on skeleton on the Olympic route in Sochi
Olga Potylitsyna - the winner of the Cup of Russia on skeleton on the Olympic route in Sochi
The Russian National Sliding Center will be built at the Alpika Service Mountain Ski Resort with a finish area in Rzhanaya Polyana.The Sliding Center “Sanki” with unique technical specifications is constructed for skeleton, bobsleigh and luge events during the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. It will be the most challenging track ever designed. State-of-the-art ice preparation technology will ensure accurate and constant temperature control along the track.
They are training in Russia now!
Freestyle skiing
Categories of Freestyle Skiing: Freestyle skiing can be divided in various categories according to the format of competitions. The most common categories of freestyle skiing are -
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Freestyle skiing
This sport has its own interesting history, although it is a very young sport.
This sport is extreme, and there is a science which is engaged in the development of equipment for athletes.
Our National Team also
has had success in the sport.
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At the 1988 Winter Olympics short track was a demonstration sport. It became an Olympic sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. The programme was expanded from 4 events in 1992 to 8 events in 2002. Four countries: South Korea, China, the USA and Canada have won the most medals (104 of 120) since 1992. South Korea is on the top of the medals table with 37 medals.
Short track speed skating
Short track skating is a form of ice speed skating but it takes place on a smaller 112 m oval rink. It is an elimination event in which skaters race in packs. The first skater to cross the finish line is the winner, regardless of time.Only 4-6 skaters are left to race the final. Short track skaters compete in 8 events: 500m,1000m,
1500m,3000m/5000m relay(women/men).
Wang Men is a four-time Olympic champion, the most decorated Chinese short-tracker in Olympics with 6 medals and the first to have won 3 individual gold medals in the sport in 2010.
Chun Lee-Kyung of South Korea became the first and only athlete to defend two Olympic titles.
Top world short track speed skaters
Apollo Anton Ohno of the USA won 8 medals, the most medals than any short track speed skater.
Lee Ho-Suk has been the № 1 short track skater in the world since 2006. He is the leader of the Korean Short Track Team.
Jin Sun-Yu and Ahn Hyun-Soo of South Korea became the first two short-trackers to have won 3 gold medals in one Olympic in 2006. Ahn also became the first to win 4 medals in 2006.
Yang-Yang of China was called the Queen of short track.She was the first to win 3 medals in one Olympic in 1998.
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Speed Skating has been featured as a sport in the Winter Olympics since 1924. Women's events were added in 1960
The "Adler-arena" skating centre is being built now for the future Olympic Games
Speed skating at the Olympic Games consits of ten events: 500 m,
1 000 m, 1 500 m, 5 000 m for both women and men, 3 000 m for women, 10 000 m for men, and Team pursuit for women and men
Olympic speed skating competitions have to be skate on a standard 400 m track with artifically frozen ice
The detailed specification is regulated by the ISU - rules
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Yevgeniy Grishin - the first Soviet gold medalist (1956, 500 meters speed skating)
Klara Guseva( Nesterova) - the first Soviet gold medalist (1960, 1000 meters speed skating, women)
Lidiya Skoblikova - the woman with the most winter gold medals (Innsbruck 1964 - 4; Squaw Valley 1960 -2)
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History of bobsledding
Bobsledding was introduced in the 1924 Olympic games in France. Only four-man sleds raced there. Now, there is also a two-man sled competition.
The bobsled run is at least 1,500 meters long and has about 15 or 20 turns. Walls of ice, about 18 inches high, keep the sleds from flying off the runs.
A race is made up of four runs and results are based on combined times of all four runs. That means that one bad run can cost a team a medal.
In the Olympics only men are allowed to compete.
Accomplished Athletes
Medals are won by teams in the Olympics. The following were past Olympic champions:
Two-man bobsled: 1998 a tie between Canada and Italy, 1994 & 1992 Switzerland won.
Four-man bobsled: 1998 & 1994 Germany II won, in 1992 Austria took the gold.
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Alpine skiing is the sport of
sliding down snow-covered
hills on skis with fixed-heel
bindings. It is also commonly known as downhill skiing,
although that also incorporates different styles. Alpine skiing can be contrasted
with skiing using free-heel bindings; ski mountaineering and nordic skiing –
such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. Alpine skiing is popular
wherever the combination of snow, mountain slopes, and a sufficient tourist
infrastructure can be built up, including parts of Europe, North America,
Australia and New Zealand, the South American Andes, and East Asia.
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Alpine Skiing
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Alpine skiing began as a club sport 1861 at Kiandra in Australia and a number of similar clubs in North America and the Swiss Alps. Today, most alpine skiing occurs at a ski resort with ski lifts that transport skiers up the mountain. The snow is groomed, avalanches are controlled and trees are cut to create trails. Many resorts also include snow making equipment to provide skiing when the weather would otherwise not allow it. Alternatively, alpine skiers may pursue the sport in less controlled environments; this practice is variously referred to as ski touring, backcountry skiing, or extreme skiing.
Luge
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The programme has not changed since then. Since 1976, this sport has taken place on the same track as bobsleigh.
The discipline was dominated by the East Germans, who won 15 of the 21 gold medals available between 1964 and 1988. One of the undisputed masters of luge is a German: Georg Hackl, who won gold three times consecutively, in 1994 in Lillehammer, 1998 in Nagano and 2002 in Salt Lake City. (link)
Luge was developed as a sport in Switzerland. Its roots go back to the 16th century. The first course was built in Davos in 1879, and four years later the town was host to the first international competition. It was not until 1955 that the first World Championship was organized. Nine years later, in 1964, luge made its Olympic debut, at the Innsbruck Games, with a mixed event, a men’s event and a women’s event.
is a German former luger who was three time Olympic and World Champion
The best lugers of the world
Georg Hackl is a German former luger who was three time Olympic and World Champion
Thomas Köhler is an East German former luger who competed during the 1960s.He won three Winter Olympic medals in men's luge with two golds (Singles: 1964, Doubles: 1968) and one silver
Anna Maria Muller was an East German luger who competed in the late 1960th and early 1970th. She won the gold medal in the women's singles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.
Tatjana Hüfner is a German luger who is the current Olympic Champion and has competed since 2003. She won the bronze medal in the women's singles at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Hüfner won four gold medals at the FIL World Luge Championships
Albert Demtschenko is a Russian luger who has competed since 1992. A six-time Winter Olympian, he finally won his first medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin with a silver in the men's singles event.
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Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and try to land as far as possible down the hill below.
Judges give points for the length and the style of the jump made by an athlete. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long. Ski jumping is mainly a winter sport, performed on snow.
True ski jumping originated in Norway in the 19th century and has been part of the Winter Olympic Games since 1924.
Ski jumping competitions, including individual and team ones, are held on three types of hills – normal hills, large hills and sky-flying hills. Team events consist of four members of the same nation, who each jump twice.
Ski jumping can also be performed in the summer on a porcelain track and plastic grass combined with water.
It is mainly a men’s sport, but on April 6, 2011 the International Olympic Committee officially accepted women ski jumping into the official Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Nowadays Matti Nykänen from Finland
and Simon Ammann from Switzerland
are the most notable ski jumpers,
known for their doubles in the American
Olympics in the beginning of the 21st
century.
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Ice dancing
Ice dancing was included at the winter Olympics for the first time in 1976.
Competitons have three parts: a compulsory dance, an original dance and a free skate. A compulsory dance has fixed patterns and steps, perform to standard music and has the strongest link to ballroom traditions. The emphasis is on the couple showing "togetherness" and technical ability.
(http://www.mahalo.com/olympic-ice-dance/)
The British team of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the Olympic gold medal in Saraevo (1984) with a dramatic free skate to Ravel's Bolero which earned 6.0s for presentation.
Ice dancing N.Bestemyanova& A.Bukin - 1988 (Calgary)
M. Shabalin & O. Domnina -2010 bronze
Grischuk O.& E. Platov 1994 (Lillehammer), 1998 (Nagano)
T.Navka& R.Kostomarov -2006
I.Lobachyova& I.Overbuch -2002 (Salt Lake City) - silver
Nordic Combined
Ski Jumping
The only Russian athlete who won an Olympic bronze medal in in Nagano is Valery Stolyarov.
This sport, which has a long Olympic history, was included at the 1924 Winter Olympics, and has been on the programme ever since.
It combines ski jumping & cross country skiing.
The ski jumping is held first, followed by the cross country race.
No wonder that traditionally Norway delivers top athletes in the sport because it was invented in that country.
Cross Country Skiing
A cross country race is the second part of the competition.
During Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, Nordic Combined events will be held at the «RusSki Gorki» Jumping Center in Krasnaya Polyana.