1. From Port Richey to Sochi
Athletes and Events
By: Jennifer and Katelyn

3. American
Kelly Clark
Event: Snowboarding
Olympic Awards:2 gold
medals
Hometown:
West Dover, VT
Sarah Hendrickson
Event: Ski Jumping
Hometown:
Salt Lake City, UT
Olympic Awards:
None, this is her first
Olympics!

4. Japanese
Mao Asada
Event: Figure Skating
Olympic Awards: 1
Hometown: Nagoya
Yuichi Onda
Event: Cross Country
Skiing
Best Finish: 12th place
Hometown: Tokyo

5. Jamaican
Winston Watt
Event: Bobsled
Hometown:
Birthday: 8-12-1967
Marvin Dixon
Event: Bobsled
Hometown: Kingston
Birthday: 3-9-1985

6. Russian
Slava Voynov
Event: Hockey
Age: 24
Fun Fact: Slava plays for
the LA Kings!
Yulia Lipnitskaya
Event: Figure Skating
Age: 15!
Fun Fact: Yulia is
homeschooled!

8. Curling
• Curling is one of 4 Winter Olympic events held
indoors
• Curling is a 514 year-old sport that originated
in Scotland
• Curling is like a strategic version of
shuffleboard that is on ice

9. Ice Skating
• Figure skating can be done in pairs or by
yourself
• Speed skating is a race of who can finish a
certain number of laps first
• Speed skating consists of sprints and
long-distance

10. Ski Jumping
• Each athlete jumps twice, and the skier with
the farthest jump wins
• The only American to win a ski jump gold
medal was Anders Haugen in 1924
• Skiers can ski at 60 mph and can fly farther
than the distance of a football field
• Women’s ski jumping was only added to the
Olympics in 2011

11. Biathlon
• Germany has the most gold medals in the
biathlon
• The biathlon consists of a course of skiing and
shooting at targets
• There are many different distances for the
Olympic biathlon

12. Hockey
• Hockey is a game in which 2 teams hit a puck
around an ice rink
• The object of the game is to have one team hit
the puck into the other team’s goal more than
the other team
• Hockey gear can weigh up to 20 pounds!

13. Luge and Bobsled
• Equipment:
Bridge, gloves, grips, helmets, kufen, pod, raci
ng suit, shoes, steel runners
• They have no brakes on the sleds, so they only
rely on steering!
• Luge is the French word for “sledge”

14. Skiing
• The skiing events are: cross
country, alpine, freestyle, snowboard, Nordic
combined, and ski jumping
• Nordic combined consists of ski jumping and
cross country skiing
• The cross country course is 30 kilometers

15. Resources
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http://www.ussnowboarding.com/athletes/kelly-clark
http://www.olympic.org
http://i.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=15082/index.html
http://whoislog.info/profile/yuichi-onda.html
http://jamaicanbobsled.com
http://www.nbcolympics.com
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/4549/
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/winter-olympics-curling.html