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Athletes to watch in the Winter Olympics Posted by Gabriele on Feb 11, 2014
With the Winter Olympics now underway what athletes are you watching? Who are you hoping will win gold? Today I’m going to introduce you to a number of American athletes that have a lot of fans here in the United States. You may want to keep an eye out for these athletes and see how…
Winter Olympic Sports Posted by Gabriele on Feb 6, 2014
Let’s learn the names of all the Winter Olympic sports and also learn a little bit about each sport! If you do this, when you are watching the games over the next weeks you can practice your English, by quizzing yourself on these new vocabulary words. These are the sports represented in the 2014 Winter…
It’s time…for the Winter Olympics! Posted by Gabriele on Feb 4, 2014
The Winter Olympics are coming so let’s get ready! My next 3 posts are intended to help get you in the spirit for the Winter Olympic Games. This first post will be about the games themselves; then we will look at the sports that are featured in the Winter Olympic; and finally we will look…
The Ancient Olympics and the Modern Olympics Posted by Gabriele on Aug 10, 2012
The modern Olympic Games that we enjoy today have very old roots. The first Olympic games, what we now call the Ancient Olympic Games were first played around 776 BC. These games were a series of competitions held between people from several city-states (small kingdoms or countries) in Greece. The ancient games were also…
Talking about Table Tennis Posted by Gabriele on Aug 9, 2012
Table tennis is an Olympic sport that is pretty much dominated by one country, China. In fact, China has won 20 of the 24 available gold medals in this sport since it joined the Olympics 1988. That is a very impressive record. Perhaps the reason Americans are not doing so well in this sport is…
Sports that are no longer in the Olympics Posted by Gabriele on Aug 7, 2012
I bet you would be surprised to know about some sports that were once in the Olympics that are no longer there. There are a number of sports that have been discontinued* from the Olympics over the years and interestingly some that were once eliminated are now coming back. Here is some information about sports…
Spotlight on Synchronized Swimming Posted by Gabriele on Aug 6, 2012
In my opinion synchronized swimming is a very elegant sport. I enjoy watching it every four years during the summer Olympics. Unfortunately this isn’t a popular enough sport in the United States for synchronized swimming to be on TV very much other than during the Olympics. To stick with our theme of the Olympics…