Two years ago, in 2014, there was one of biggest sport event in the history of our country – Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. Everyone was talking about it. People tried to guess who would be the best in every sport. I remember that I wasn`t very interested in this event. Of course I knew about Adelina Sotnikova and Yulia Lepnizkaya. They were talked by everyone. The became very famous after the Olympics. And today I visited the website https://www.olympic.org/sochi-2014-winter-olympics where i found an interview with Adelina, where she was speaking about her victory.
Also I visited this website https://www.olympic.org/news/what-s-new-for-sochi/218742 and learned about 12 new sports events that debuted at the 2014 Winter Olympics. There is the discretion of several of them:
1. Biathlon mixed relay – Mixed:
§ Competitors – 19 nations
§ One team, 4 biathletes – 2 men and 2 women
§ Format – 4 leg relay held on a 4 km loop; each leg comprises skiing and shooting. For women – leg 1 and 2 over 6 km course, for men – race 3 and 4 over a 7,5 km course. Relay style transition in the handover zone
2. Figure skating team event – Mixed
§ Competitors – 10 teams
§ Six skaters per team – 1 lady, one man, 1 pairs skating couple, 1 ice dancing couple
§ Format – 10 teams compete in short programme / short dance. The best 5 teams progress to free skating/ free dance.
3. Luge ream relay – mixed
§ Competitors –12 nations qualify
§ 4 members per team – men`s singles, women`s singles, doubles either
§ Format - 3 sleds go in any order; 1 run each competitors hit a touch sensitive pad to open start gate for team mate. Team with the fastest combined time wins gold
§ Course length – 1384 m, 125 vertical drop, 16 curves
4. Ski halfpipe –Men`s and Women`s
§ Competitors – men`s event (30 skiers) and women`s event (24 skiers)
§ Format – 2 phases + qualification final. 2 runs per phase. Best run counts top 12 skiers advance to final
§ Course – length 234 m;
width – 18,3 m;
18,4 degree pitch;
6,8 m walls
5. Ski slopestyle – Men`s and Women`s
6. Snowboard slopestyle – Men`s and Women`s
7. Snowboard parallel slalom- Men`s and Women`s
8. Women`s ski jumping
After visiting the website about winter games, I found a video about last summer Olympics games in London in 2012. This video is amazing. While I was watching it, I saw some moments that I watched on TV.
https://www.olympic.org/videos/best-of-london-2012
I also found the song from this video –“If This is It” by Newton Faulkner
And about the highlight of the year 2016 - Olympics in Rio, i really like this video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=40&v=HEKyO_cKaGQ