Inaspect the Olympic Games – Castleton Spartan

As a sports activities fan, there are few issues I get pleasure from greater than an Olympic yr. 

The Winter Olympics are all the time particularly attention-grabbing due to the array of sports activities which might be included. You have the whole lot from ice hockey and determine skating to issues like luge and curling.

For Team U.S.A., which despatched a complete of 232 athletes, there have been quite a lot of actually nice moments within the Milano Cortina video games.

The U.S. received its first medal within the girls’s downhill snowboarding occasion when Breezy Johnson took house the gold. It was the identical occasion that American snowboarding icon Lindsey Vonn crashed on and was airlifted off the course, ending what was set to be her ultimate Olympic Games early, with a extreme leg damage. 

Team U.S.A. earned a second gold medal the next day, with a formidable efficiency within the workforce determine skating occasion, headlined by the duo of Madison Chock and Evan Bates and the Olympic debut of the “Quad God,” Ilya Malinin. 

One occasion even noticed a Vermonter stroll away with a silver medal. 

Ben Ogden, a 26-year-old from Landgrove, Vermont, earned the U.S. its first medal in a males’s cross-country snowboarding occasion since 1976. 

Another attention-grabbing second got here out of the ladies’s luge occasion, the place the U.S. medaled for simply the third time when Ashley Farquharson earned the bronze. 

I feel one of many coolest moments of the Olympics up to now was when the American mixed-doubles curling workforce went all the way in which to the gold medal sport. The duo of Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin received the silver medal, which was the primary medal the U.S. had ever received within the blended doubles occasion. 

I feel curling is a cool occasion as a result of it’s a sport that I don’t actually know a lot about, however all the time appear to finish up watching. Plus, lots of the athletes aren’t full-time athletes and produce other jobs. 

Another extremely anticipated occasion for the U.S. heading into the video games was the Olympic debut of speedskater Jordan Stolz. He took house gold in his first two occasions, setting Olympic report occasions in each of his skates. 

And, in fact, it wouldn’t be the Olympics if there wasn’t not less than just a little little bit of controversy. This time, coming within the pairs determine skating occasion, the gold medal favorites, Chock and Bates, positioned second to the French workforce. 

The problem was with the judging. 

Chock and Bates put out a stellar efficiency with just about no errors, and so they misplaced to the French workforce who made two noticeable errors of their routine. 

Many imagine the judging was skewed, as a French decide on the panel gave the U.S. a low rating and the French a excessive one, which decided the medal placement. 

However, that wasn’t the one upset the U.S. determine skaters noticed on the Milan ice. 

In the lads’s occasion, Ilya Malinin was the runaway favourite to take house the gold. He ended up falling twice within the routine and positioned eighth in a large upset. 

Now, the occasion I used to be most excited for is, in fact, ice hockey, particularly with the return of NHL gamers. 

The U.S. males’s workforce received its opening sport of the preliminary spherical in opposition to Latvia by a rating of 5-1. 

I like worldwide hockey, and that is already proving to be a fantastic match that I can’t wait to see the remainder of.