The Olympics: The Three Aspects Of The Olympic Olympics

Does “Citius, Altius, Fortius” mean anything to you? It would if you were an Olympic athlete competing for your country. That phrase translates to faster, higher, stronger and is the Olympic motto. Every four years both amatuer and professional athletes come together for one of the most famous sporting events. The Olympics allow the world to watch these athletes as they represent their country and hopefully promote a positive competitive atmosphere. Despite any differences between the countries, the three aspects of the Olympics that get showcased are the athlete, the sport, and the Olympic city. For example, the athlete Dorothy Hamill dreamed of figure skating at the age of eight when she started taking lesions. She went on in 1974 to win her first national ladies senior singles title. Hamill also silver medaled in the World Championships in both 1974 and 1975, working herself up to the Olympics. Finally, her chance had come to be in the Olympics. She went to compete in figure skating in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria at age 19. Although she battled with stage fright her whole career, she accomplished two perfect 6.0s in her short program scores, which put her in

First starting at the Chamonix Winter Olympics in 1924, bobsledding is a team of people pushing and riding in a sled or ‘bob’ on a narrow, sloping, and bending ice track while being timed. A team consists of four people with the captain or driver being the most important. When the sport was first invented in 1860s they used wooden skeleton sleds, but now high-tech fiber glass and steele sleds are used. For steering in the sled, the driver turns the front axle with ropes or a wheel and it also has a brake. To make the track permanent foundations like concrete or stone are put in and covered with inches of wet snow that freezes into ice. The name for bobsledding came from how early teams bobbed their bodies to increase their