Winter Olympics

It is the year of the winter olympics and I cant wait to watch people from all over the world to compete in the unique winter games. This year it is held in Vancouver Canada. I see Vancouver as the perfect winter wonderland for the games. It is beautiful and has many mountains which can be used for luge and skiing. It is a large city with many complexs for ice skating and other indoor sports there are also many hotels for the spectators to stay. http://www.vancouver2010.com/

The sports that are played in the winter olympics are quite unigue and really interest me because of the danger skill and bravery you must have to participate in these sports. It is very different from the summer games where sports like soccer basketball track etc. are played. The winter olympics includes luge, ski jump, figure skating, speed skating, snow boarding and more. All the require trmendous skill and no fear because of the extremes you may have to exceed in these sports to win the gold.

One of my favorite sports would have to be speed skating. Its not only the intensity of the quick race when the participants are on their final laps but the sucees of two american athletes who races I love to watch. Shani Davis Apollo Ohno and J.R. Celski being among these american athletes have won many of the races beating out the other countrie. Apollo seems to have a certain strategy to his race, during the last couple laps hewaits for the others to make a mistake and quicly takes with the inside or outside lane when thand is immediatly passes them all and wins the gold. Shani davis is just pure quickness and has a perect stride to hi skating. He reminds me of Frozone from the Incredibles. J.R. Celski had a fatal injury and came back and raced very successfully in his races.

Another one of my favorite sports is luge. I think this is one of the most dangerous and incredible sports in the olympics because of the unbelievably high speeds that are exceeded and the ability to hit each turn without crashing while at these speeds. The track they use at whistler is the fastes in the world reaching speeds at 100 mph. Unfortunatly because of this extreme track during a practice run a georgian athlete crashe on a turn and lost his life. This shows how dangerous this sport is and how you must be skilled and fearless to take part in luge.

I also like Snowboarding mainly because of Shaun White's amazing ability, nicknamed flying tomato. He dominates everyone in this sport doing unbelievable tricks on the halfpipe and landing each one of his flips and twists. He won gold scoring a 46.2 because of his outstanding tricks that ordinary snowboarders dream of doing.