Winter Olympics

I know you probably all have seen the commercials when watching TV. These ads are continuously reminding us that one of the worlds greatest sports events in history is due to start in less than 4 months. This event as you can probably tell from the title is non other than the Winter Olympic games. The games are being held in Sochi, Russia and are scheduled to take place between February 7th and February 24th. As many of you know there are the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. Every two years the games switch to the other seasonal games. For the Winter Olympics there are a lot of pretty uncommon sports and I'd say the winter olympics are genuinely less common than the Summer games. Although this may be the case, it doesn't mean to say that the Winter Games are boring. They are quite the opposite in fact. I'm going to try to introduce some of the big olympic sports as well as a few of the other less known ones.

For starters we have the main sports like skiing, snowboarding, ice hockey, skating, and maybe even bob sledding for you enthusiasts out there. These are all fun because they're very action packed sports, except skating, with lots of excitement that really pleases viewers. Skiing is broken into many different categories like cross country, alpine, ski jumping, free style, and even snowboarding falls in this category. Skating is also broken down into different events including figure skating, short track speed skating, and long track speed skating. These events and a few of the others listed above comprise the main events of the Winter Olympic Games. These events are the most popular by far.

Now lets move onto some of the less popular games. These are ones that maybe don't get televised as often or at the normal viewing hours, but nonetheless they still provide very good entertainment for anyone interested. A few of these smaller events are curling, luge, and biathlon. Personally I haven't seen many of these events, but the ones I have seen in my short time watching the Winter Olympics these events have been very exciting to watch. Biathlon is one example. It is a very interesting sport in the fact that it combines rifle shooting with cross country skiing. Now doesn't that sound interesting.

I hope I did well in informing on some of what the Winter Olympic games has to offer and hopefully this convinces you to watch one of the Worlds biggest sporting events!