2010 Winter Games Vancouver By Shannon Martin Kevin pearce

Winter Olympic Games The Five host cities are……………….. 1924- Camonix, France 1928- St. Mortz, Switzerland 1932- Lake Placid New York, USA 1936- Gamrmisch – Parten Kirchen, Germany 1948- St. Moritz Switzerland

About Kevin Pierce On Dec. 31, rising half pipe star Kevin Pearce was hospitalized with a severe head injury in a training accident, leaving his long-term prognosis uncertain... Though only 22, he has lived a storied snowboarding life... Not only did the Vermont native receive his first snowboard from Jake Burton, but he's the rare competitor who can boast of victory over Shaun White. Kevin grew up in Norwich Vermont. If there is a clear-cut threat to Shaun White 's halfpipe hegemony, it has to be considered Pearce, who defeated White at the Burton European Open in 2008 and 2009 and narrowly lost to the reigning Olympic champion at the 2008 X Games. After two runs at that competition, Pearce sat comfortably in first place. And if it had been the Olympics, where only two runs count, the gold would have gone to Pearce. However, White was given one more chance, and finished a single point ahead of Pearce. Despite the silver medal, 2008 was a triumphant season for Pearce, who also won the Ticket to Ride (TTR) World Tour overall title

The Olympic Flame The Olympic Torch today is ignited several months before the opening celebration of the Olympic Games at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece. Eleven women, representing the Vestal Virgins, perform a ceremony in which the torch is kindled by the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror. The Olympic Torch Relay ends on the day of the opening ceremony in the central The final bearer of the torch runs towards the cauldron, often placed stadium of the Games. The final carrier is often kept unnoticed until the last moment, and is usually a sports celebrity of the host country. at the top of a grand staircase, and then uses the torch to start the flame in the stadium. It is considered a great honor to be asked to light the Olympic Flame. After being lit, the flame continues to burn throughout the Olympics, and is extinguished on the day of the closing ceremony

Olympic Games History Have you ever wondered how the Olympics started? In Olympia, Greece the Olympic Games were held every four years. First Olympic game was recorded in 776 BC; that was about 3,000 years ago. At that time this great festival took place to honor the Greek gods. Olympics were held during the great festival. My resources say Olympics were held to please the various gods. One God, in particular, the most important was called Zeus. The Olympics were called Olympiad in Greece. Now we know where the games are held, but we dont know what games they played? In the first thirteen Olympic games, there was only one event and that was the sprint. The sprint event was about one hundred and eight meters in length. Then later Pentathlon was added and it had different events. There was discus, javelin, jumping, running, and wrestling. After a while, they added Equestrian events and that included chariot racing and riding. The Ancient Olympics did have lots of events. They had two major events Equestrian and Pentathlon events.

Snow Boarding There are six snowboarding events on the 2010 Olympic program: Men's halfpipe Women's halfpipe Men's parallel giant slalom Women's parallel giant slalom Men's snowboard cross Women's snowboard cross Both halfpipe events were contested at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, where snowboarding made its Olympic debut. The parallel giant slalom events appeared on the Olympic program for the first time in 2002, replacing the two giant slalom events that were contested in Nagano. The snowboard cross events made their debut on the Olympic program at the 2006 Torino Games.

The Olympic Motto The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for "Swifter, Higher, Stronger". The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. De Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who, amongst other things, was an athletics enthusiast. The motto was introduced in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris.[1] The motto was also the name of an Olympic history journal from 1992 to 1997, when it was renamed the Journal of Olympic History. A more informal but well known motto, also introduced by De Coubertin, is "The most important thing is not to win but to take part!" De Coubertin got this motto from a sermon by the Bishop of Pennsylvania during the 1908 London Games

How I feel about the power point! I did not like doing the research for the Winter Olympics project. I also didn’t like doing the PowerPoint. But I do like the pictures and the clip art that I put on the Power Point.

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