02/16/10

The article "2010 Winter Olympic Bids" is about the new Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. It talks about the past Olympians and who was involved. In December 3, 1998 the first round of voting for who goes in the Olympics had started. Vancouver won the bidding process to host the Olympics by a vote on the International Olympic Committee on July 2, 2003 at the 115th IOC Session held in Prague, Czech Republic. The Olympics in an international, world wide event that many people attend to, to become known as a somebody. They compete in the event that they would like to, such as figure skating, skiing, luge, ice hockey and speed skating. They compete for a gold metal, and one person get a gold, the second place gets silver and third gets bronze. People from all countries compete to win. I chose this article in particular because i love to watch the Winter Olympics. It is very interesting to watch how different countries and see if the U.S.A could win a gold. The Olympics only come every four years, so after four years we get to see the Winter sports compete. Its just a lot of fun to see who gets to win and see how good people really are. It would be interesting to others because everyone loves to watch the Olympics. Many people tune in to the channel 4 on Bright House, to see the Olympics. It has many viewings and people always love to see if U.S.A can win a gold, in either speed skating, skiing, figure skating, etc. Others should learn that the Olympics is not always fun and games. Many of the players in the events work for four years to finally get where they need to be, but when it comes down to it at the event, they get hurt, lose or even die. They do not always have fun and they usually get injured. This is important for people to know because many people do not understand how much they could potentially get hurt.