The Winter Olympics is now over – I have watched bits here and there including some of the ice hockey, bit of the skiing and some of the snowboarding. I wanted to watch more but unfortunately didnt manage to.
As expected Great Britain didnt win much at all but Shelly Rudman did brilliant to win the silver medal for the womens skeleton. Our one medal hope at the start of the Olympics was for womans curling – we were the defending champions but only managed 4th. We also managed 4th in the mens curling.
The freestyle snowboarding with Shaun White (the flying tomato) was amazing. He is a professional skateboarder with 3 houses. I have seen one of the houses when it was shown on Cribs on MTV. He won the gold medal on his very first one so in his second run he was just showing off a bit and did some massive jumps. Very impressive. In other snowboarding worth mentioning was the womens snowboardcrossing (of whatever its called!). The US boarder was miles ahead and was almost doing a lap of honour but then fell over with about 50 metres to go and then the Swiss skater overtook her. She said she was happy with the silver but she must have so been lying!!
There was of course some controversy with the figure skating. The Chinese couple fell over and she fell badly. They went to the side of the rink and she got some treatment. She amazingly carried on and did brilliantly. They ended up winning the silver medal. The controversy was that she may have been off the rink for too long.
Also in the figure skating it was quite funny but also embarassing when the Italian couple were on but they fell over. It was all his fault and the look on her face at him said it all. He was in trouble when they get back into the dressing room.
Watching the highlight package is the whole Olympics showed some great moments. One thing about the Winter Olympics is that a lot of the sports are very spectacular and difficult (maybe not Curling!). Unlike the Summer Olympics with the likes of running and swimming, anybody can do that – of course not as well. However, if a member of the public tried something like Ski Jumping or the Skeleton they would properly kill themselves!!
Lots more information on the Winter Olympics can be seen on the BBC Sport web site. You can view some videos including the review of the Winter Olympics.
