Winter Olympics 2010

By Julia Cooper

The winter Olympics have finally ended! The Olympics this year were being held in Canada in Vancouver British Columbia. They started on February 12 and ended on February 28. There were 2500 plus athletes. The events included Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Cross-Country, Curling, Figure Skating, Freestyle Skiing, Ice Hockey, Luge, Nordic Combined, Short Track, Skeleton, Ski Jumping, Snow Boarding, and Speed Skating.

The Opening Ceremonies was filled with athletes, dancing, tap dancing, singing, and the Lighting Ceremony. The Lighting Ceremony did not go as planed when the 4 people who were going to light the torch arm coming out of the ground did not work. Only 3 of the arms came out instead of the 4. After this they had to go light anther one outside due to the Olympics being inside. (You have to be able to see the flames from outside. It is a rule for the Olympics)

Another part of the Opening Ceremonies was a moment of silence for Nodar Kumaritashvili who died at a hospital after running of the tracks during his luge practice.

On a happier note the rest of the Opening Ceremonies was filled with dancing and singing. The also showed the athletes from each Country with their flags.

The Closing Ceremonies started with a big joke about how the fourth arm did not come up. There was a clown 'fixing' the problem for the fourth person she finally lit the fourth arm.

They then had kids come out with a red / white snowboard (red on one side white on the other) and make the Canada flag and other shapes.

Then the awarded the Cross - Country people because they had just performed. They also had allot of people sing, danceing and talking about Canada. They also had things about the next place they are going for the next Winter Olympics in 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

I interviewed some people about what do they think about the Olympics, here is what they had to say...

"I think they were awesome! The Americans rocked!" Ms. Rice exclaimed.

"Pretty good," Kylie Mitchel said.

"There OK," Jordan Roberson replied.

"I am bewildered by the game of curling," Deb Creekmore from A.E.S stated.

"There awesome!" Katie Taylor exclaimed.

"I don't watch it," Maddie Harvey replied.

"They were intense. But I only watched it because of Shaun White," Monica Cooper stated.

Some people liked the winter Olympics, others did not. Some watched it others did not. Diffrent people diffrent opions... What did you think about the Olympics?

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