by Maja Winnicka 8E
Well-known winter sports are: skiing, and ice skating but there are some difficult sports thats are considered art and that mostly proffessionals do. They are often disciplines in Winter Olympics.
The Winter Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. I would like to present a history of some of them: figure skating, ski jumping, and snowboarding.
Ski jumping
Since the middle of the 19th century ski jumping is an Olympic competition in which men participate, but since 2011, women can also compete in this discipline. The two most famous Polish ski jumpers are Adam Małysz and Kamil Stoch.
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| Kamil Stoch winning jump Willingen 02.02.2018 |
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| Adam Małysz in Saporro, Japan, 3.03.2007 |
In 1935, the origins of the ski jumping began in Planica in Slovenia, where Josef Bradl became the first competitor in history to jump over 100 m. At the same venue, the first official jump over 200 m was achieved in 1994, when Toni Nieminen landed at 203 m.
In 1964 in Zakopane inPoland, the large hill event was introduced at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.The same year, the normal hill event was included on the Olympic programme at the 1964 Winter Olympics. The team event was added later, at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Figure skating
Since 1908, figure skating is an Olympic discypline. For this sport you have to be very extroverted and durable. This is a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. The four Olympic disciplines are, pair skating, and ice dance.
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| Chinese pair Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang pulled off the first verified quadruple twist in Olympics history. |
Snowboarding
The beginning of snowboarding can be considered 1965, when Sherman Poppen invented the "snufer". The dyscipline was introduced to the program of the Winter Olympic Games in 1998.
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