Monday, February 17, 2014

Quarter 3 Week 6

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As you know the big event around the world right now is the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. For this week's blog post you must pick 1 event from the Winter Olympic games and tell us about it. Some things would be to include some rules, how the event works, who won, or which country is usually good at it. This blog post will take a little searching!

There can be no duplicates, if someone has already done the event, find a new one!

Your blog post must be a minimum of 2 complete sentences!

PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NUMBER

USA! USA! USA!

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34 comments:

  1. Here's a list of the Olympic Winter Events

    http://www.olympic.org/sports

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  2. I pick snowboarding half pipe because I like it and it is a really hard sport to do cause u hold to have good balance and my favorite person is Shawn white because Ha is good and he goes for the USA and how u win is to do tricks and land it and the judges will give you a present and you need a really high score to win.1

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  3. Snowboarding slop stye is an event requires balance and skill. America is most of the time vary good at this sport. One of Americas best snowboarder is Shaun White he was the defending champion this year with gold. You have to do tricks on grinding rails and jumps. Then the judges will rate the tricks and give you a score. The highest score wins. Only the top 3 will get a medal. 24

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  4. Mine is snowboard cross. Bascically you have a track you race on and the top 2 advance until the finals. In the finals the top 3 get medals. You have a lot of jumps and turns at like 40 miles an hour.
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  5. My sport is curling. This sport is played by having two teams that have 4 players each who slide 8 stones towards 4 rings trying to get the most points. They slide the stone then sweep the ice to make it smooth and have more friction. #21

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  6. I like the ski jump. Ski jumping uses equipment like bindings, boots, connection cord, ski suit, and jumping skis. To score in ski jump all you need is distance. You first have to reach a certain distance then points will be added. You will lose points if you don't land or make your mark. germany is the best right now. 17

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  7. Mine is bobsledding. 4 man sleds have a maximum size of of 3.8 meters and 1,389 pounds.the track has 15 curves and is just under a mile long.

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  8. Mine is bobsledding. 4 man sleds have a maximum size of of 3.8 meters and 1,389 pounds.the track has 15 curves and is just under a mile long.

    #20

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  9. Mine is alpine down hill. The alpine competition consists of 10 events 5 for women and 5 for men. The down hill features the longest course and the highest speeds in alpine skiing. #14

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  10. Curling is a sport which players slide a stone on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric rings, when the player slides the stone their are to people with brooms sweeping as fast as they can, to clear the path of anything that can stop it or slow it down.#18

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  11. I picked the luge. Some of the rules are you run down the track four times (tow per a day) the fastest time winners. The sled is weighed and the athlete is weighed. Also the top 3 athletes face in a sled control which is the whole sled is taken apart officials examine measurements check to make sure that no illegal methods or materials are present.
    First place is Germany
    Second place is Russia
    Third place is Latvia
    And the United States is in 6 th place right now.

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  12. I chose the skeleton. In the skeleton the track haste to be at least 1200 meters long. While going at high speeds your face is about a foot off the ground. #8

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  13. I picked ice hockey a team has four lines of three forwards, three defensemen, and two goalies. Five members are trying to skate up and down the ice and try to get the puck and make a goal. The top medalist is Jennifer Botterill.The country is that gets mostly every gold medal is either Canada or United States. #3

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  14. For this weeks blog post I choose Team Figure Skating.This year Russia won the gold medal. Evgeni Plushenko and Julia Lipnitskaia, a teenager let the Russian team. Each team consists of a woman, a man, a pairs team, and an ice dancing team. The competition is broken down into two parts: the short program and the free skate. The nation with the highest total score after the short and long programs wins.

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  15. I chose Speed Skating. You can't push or interact with each other during the race. You can't pass a person by the inside corner. Dutch is the best country at Speed Skating.#12

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  16. I picked 4 man bobsled. Racers start by getting a running start while pushing the bobsled. They have special shoes with little spikes on the bottom for traction while running. The maximum weight is 210kg (including crew and bobsled) 3.80 meters is the maximum width. They steer by using rings that are attached to ropes to a steering mechanism. The tracks size is about 1,200 to 1,300 meters long. #9

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  17. I picked Biathlon. Biathlon is like skiing and shooting rifles. There is five targets if you miss a target they add minute to your time. Norway is in the lead #13

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  18. I chose moguls as my winter sport. Moguls is a sport where skiers perform tricks and stunts while riding over mounds of snow. Canadian Alex Bilodeau came out with the gold while his teammate Mikael Kingsbury got silver. Russian Alexandr Smyshlyaev ended with the bronze medal.( men's ) #6

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  19. snowboarding slopestyle the aim is to perform the most difficult trick while getting the highest amplitude off of the jumps the emphasis is to perform different types of tricks instead of doing one of the great trick repeatedly #28

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  20. I am doing curling. The rink can be a maximum of 150 feet by 16.5 feet wide with a house on each end. Team members have to release the stone before the log line. Then 2 team members use brooms to sweep the ice in front of the stone. That sweeping motion heats control the speed and the direction of the stone... then skips directs the action from behind the house. #2

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  21. My sport is figure skating, because it is very graceful. Gracie Elizabeth Gold, is one of the many figure representing the United States in the Olympics. Gracie Gold placed fourth in the individual competition. They do a short program and then a long program. #22

    1. Sotnikova (Russian)
    2. Yuna Kim (South Korea)
    3. Carolina Kostner (Italy)


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  22. I picked Nordic Combined. It is cross country skiing and ski jumping.Its been going on sense 19th sentry.Its a men's only event. #4

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  23. I picked Nordic Combined. It is cross country skiing and ski jumping.Its been going on sense 19th sentry.Its a men's only event. #4

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  24. Hockey- Canada
    Can not kick the puck
    Take the hockey sticks and score a goal.

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  25. Mine is hockey you can not pick up the puck. All you have to do is make a goal. #26

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  26. Bob sled is a fast pase sled game you must push the sled in order to go down the track.#19

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  27. I choose Short Track Speed Skating (STSS). STSS is when a group of people about 5 to 6 race around in an oval like ice track. #25

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  28. I pick curling you have to roll this stone and 2 people have brooms and they sweep so the stone gets faster and so it goes farther and try to reach to the center circle #11

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  29. I chose bobsled it is a 4 player sport and who ever gets the fastest time wins

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  30. I picked curling, two people have brooms the third person pushes the stone. The brooms are for sweeping in front of the stone when it is skidding on the ice to make it go faster. The way you win is to get all or most of your stones in the circle, there are three circles at the end of the ice a blue on that is the out side the white one that is in the middle, and the red one that you most want the stone to go in that is in the in side. #23

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  31. Snow board free style. You have to go down a long slope and do trixs and the Jutish give 1 though 10 for a score if there land it. 16

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