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The Winter Olympics Posted by sasha on Feb 8, 2018
The 23rd edition of the Winter Olympics starts tomorrow. This year, the games are happening in Pyeongchang, South Korea. It will be the first ever Winter Olympics in South Korea. They previously hosted the Summer Olympics in the capital of Seoul in 1988. South Korea tried to get the winter games unsuccessfully in 2010 and…
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…
Gymnastics in the Olympics Posted by Gabriele on Aug 5, 2012
Gymnastics is one of the most popular spectator sports in the Olympic Games. People love to watch gymnastics. Gymnastics is not just one sport though. In the Olympics there are three categories of gymnastic events: Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline and there are multiple events within these categories. In this post we will take a closer…
The triathlon and triathlon vocabulary Posted by Gabriele on Aug 3, 2012
Because the triathlon is a multi-sport event involving competition in swimming, cycling, and running, there is a lot of great English vocabulary we can discuss around this one Olympic event. First of all let’s discuss what this sport involves. This is an endurance sport in which athletes compete in continuous (back-to-back) events of swimming, cycling…