A Few of the Sports That Will Be Showcased at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are just around the corner with athletes from all around the world getting ready to compete for the gold medal. The winter Olympics are quite a bit smaller than the summer Olympics as there are less options for winter sports played as in the summer Olympics. There are also less countries and athletes competing as some countries do not have these sports or the weather or terrain to sustain a winter sport. This does not always stop athletes, however, as evidenced by the Jamaican bob sledding team years ago. They took strong runners and athletes from Jamaica and taught them how to bobsled using a wooden cart on wheels. Their entry into the Olympics was a great crowd pleaser. This article will talk about some of the different events at the Olympics performed by some athletes like the Telluride ski instructor that teaches Telluride ski lessons and will be competing in the giant Slalom event.

Ice hockey is one of the favorite fan spectator sports to see at the Olympic Games. One of the most famous gold medal final games was the 1980 game of the USA versus Russia where the US came out on top. It had always been a sport for just men but now women's ice hockey is also an Olympic sport. Other forms of skating sports that are popular are speed skating, ice dancing and figure skating. These sports also draw big crowds to their competitions.

The USA team has always had top performers in these events as well with Apolo Anton Ohno competing in his third Olympic games this year in speed short track skating. Figure skating greats in the past have been Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton and Nancy Kerrigan who missed out on getting gold when her competitions boyfriend injured her in an attack the day before competition.

Some of the sports that people love to watch are the ones that they only get to see on the Olympics like bobsledding, biathlon or curling. These lesser known and popular sports get their spotlight during the Olympic Games where they can show off their abilities and talents in sports that are not normally played in every town or state. Bobsledding and skeleton are exciting and fast races where a sled speeds down an icy tube to the finish. In order to find athletes for these sports some coaches go to other states to seek out younger kids that may have an interest or knack for it. This happened in Colorado where the US skeleton team put on a demo and got some interested kids involved. This ended up producing two of the athletes at the last Olympic Games. Curling is a sport that is mainly played in Northern Minnesota and is a calmer sport very similar to bocce ball but on ice.

Downhill ski racing and Nordic skiing are also big sports in the winter games. The downhill skiers and snowboarders love speed and an element of danger and the Nordic skier have extreme stamina and endurance.

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Wushu, Accepted As Olympic Game Event

Wushu is practised all over China and is an important component of the cultural heritage of the country. Most visitors to China are deeply impressed by the tremendous popularity of wushu in this country. If you take a walk in the morning, you will see people practicing wushu barehanded or with weapons in parks, at the shore, or on roadside open grounds. Marked by callisthenic beauty and rhythm, their movements follow set patterns that are designed more for health-building than for self defense.

Wushu, which is sometimes called kung fu abroad, has developed over a long historic period. It can be traced back to pre-historical times. In order to survive the extremely hostile environment, our ancestors have to learn some primary means of attack and defense to fight against wild animals and among themselves. Moreover, they generally knew how to fight with weapons made from stones and wood or bare-hand fighting. This is considered to be the origin of wushu.

Wushu represents the spirit of Chinese culture and art. According to the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine, wushu exercises consist of both "external" and "internal" work. The former means movements of the body, the hands and the feet and expressions of the eyes, and the latter is related to "the spirit, willpower, vital energy and strength." The two aspects are combined as movements are guided by consciousness so as to achieve "a unity of body and mind."

There are hundreds of styles and routines in wushu, each with its own distinctive features. Generally speaking, Shaolin style and Wudang style are the two most famous styles. Both of them lay emphasis on the external practice for genuine energy, vital energy and spirit and internal practice for muscle, bone and skin. Long-Range Shadow Boxing is characterized by speed and vigor, while taijiquan is noted for its slow and gentle movements. The humorous zuiquan describes a drunkard who is drunk in appearance but not in mind and is sober enough to outwit his opponent.

However, as wushu is becoming worldwide popular, it's a common wish of all Chinese people to watch wushu competitions at the Beijing Olympic Games. In 2008 Olympic Games, wushu is neither an official event nor performing event, but is allowed to hold an international competition under Olympic Organizing Committee's permission.