Category: Olympics
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2022 Winter Olympics Medal Count Day 4
With the 2022 Winter Olympics ongoing one of my favorite parts of is keeping track of each countries amount of medals. So as Day 4 concludes here are the countries that have medals. 1. China: 5 Medals (3 Gold, 2 Silver, 0 Bronze)Gold: –Team China (Qu Chunyu,Fan Kexin ,Zhang Yuting ,Wu Dajing ,Ren Ziwei and Sun…
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Olympic Women’s Hockey Update: USA gets back to back shutouts, Canada remains dominant, and China upsets Japan
These past three days have brought the world of hockey phenomenal games. The USA and Canada both remain undefeated. Team USA got back-to-back shutouts with two different goalies and have held their opponents to only 12 shots on goal. Team Canada scored 17 goals across two games. There was also the first shootout of the…
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Eteri Tutberidze and the Price of Gold: The cost of Russia’s figure skating dominance
Once every four years, the world turns into figure skating fans, and I am definitely among them. Yes, I will admit it, even with my devotion to hockey, I love figure skating. Since I was little, I have been absolutely obsessed with Olympic figure skating. I would watch, my eyes locked to the screen, as…
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2022 Winter Olympics Medal Count Day 3
With the 2022 Winter Olympics ongoing one of my favorite parts of is keeping track of each countries amount of medals. So as Day 3 concludes here are the countries that have medals. 1. Norway: 3 Medals (2 Gold, 0 Silver, 1 Bronze)Gold:–Therese Johaug Women’s 7.5km + 7.5km Skiathlon–Team Norway (Tarjei Boe, Johannes Thingnes Boe, Tiril…
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2022 Winter Olympics Medal Count Day 2
With the Olympics officially here and games are underway. One of my favorite parts about the Olympics is keeping track of each countries amount of medals. So as Day 2 concludes here are the countries that have medals. 1. Norway: 2 Medals (2 Gold, 0 Silver, 0 Bronze)Gold:–Therese Johaug Women’s 7.5km + 7.5km Skiathlon-Team Norway…
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The Problem Using Artificial Snow in Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics are officially here and I was very happy watching some of the games yesterday. Especially as winter is my favorite season and I love when sports are played in a colder environment. But something that I did not know is that a majority of the snow that Olympians will be performing on…
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The First Two Days of Olympic Women’s Hockey
Women’s Olympic Hockey started on Wednesday night, a whole two days before the opening ceremony. The favorites in the tournament Canada and the reigning gold medalist United States both played in those first two days. Beyond just the favorites, the tournament marks the return of China’s women’s team, which has not played in the Olympics…
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Top 5 Favorite Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympics is almost here and I am very excited every time that these games are being played. As a hype up to the Olympics I thought to myself what games that are played in the Winter Olympics do I like? My answer is every single one of them. But there are 5 Winter…