Alpine Skiing

Alpine Skiing consists of five Events, Down Hill, Super G, Giant Slalom, Slalom and Super Combined. In Alpine Skiing, it is basically skiers traveling down the hill at a high speeds going around certain obstacles depending on the event. Down Hill is The longest coarse, with the fastest speeds out of all of the Alpine skiing events. The woman’s coarse is 800m and men’s 1100m, the skier with the fastest time wins. Super G, Giant Slalom, And slalom are all similar. IN slalom and Giant slalom, you make two runs down the hill, and who ever has that fastest combined time wins, in Super G, you only do one run who ever does it the fastest wins. Out of the three Slalom has the shortest coarse with the tightest turns, then from that the length and tightness of the turn increases. The super Combined event is a mix of the shortest slalom and the down hill. Each contestant does one run of each event, the fastest time wins.

Biathlon

The biathlon is a combination of cross country skiing and rifle shooting going for the shortest time.. Under the category of biathlon there is four different events the athlete can compete in. In Individual Start, men race 20 km and woman 15km. The athletes start one at a time every thirty seconds then ski a three or four km loop five times depending on gender. Between each loop they take five shots at a target. If they miss they get a one minute penalty added to their time. Sprints is basically the same but shorter distance (7.5km for woman and 10km for men) also if they miss a shot they must ski a 150m penalty lap. In relay each team member will ski three legs (6km for woman and 7.5 for men) and then twice they each must stop at the range and shoot five shots, the 150m lap still applies for every bullet misses. For Mass start they ski 12.5 km for woman and 15 for men and the thirty best start in mass at all four shooting ranges they must stop and take 5 shots (with the missed shot the lap applies) they first one to cross the line is the winner.

Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh is held in heights so this is were you race your heat (group of sliders) and then the on with the fastest time moves on. To start the 4 or 2 competitors for male and 2 for female run 50 pushing the sleigh then jump in to the bobsleigh. Form here they travel down the track trying for the fastest time. One person steers and on breaks.

Cross country Skiing

Cross Country Skiing is when the athletes ski on a designed coarse with flat up hill and down hill parts , along with turns . There are Individual start Mass start Pursuit Individual Sprint Team sprint And relay. Basically they are all the same the only thing that varies is the length of the coarse and the number of people competing. The range in length of coarse varies from 18km to 50 km.

Curling

Curling consists of teams of five throwing “rocks” across a sheet of ice to a target painted into the ice at the other end. Each game consists of 10 “ends” per team. Two team members sweep the ice in front of the stone to make it go faster or turn. The team with the most point (stones close to the middle) is the winner.