Sporting+Events

== =What Exact Sporting Events are Taking Place at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics?=

Alpine [|skiing] (or "downhill skiing") is the [|sport] of sliding down [|snow] -covered hills on [|skis] with fixed-heel [|bindings]. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with [|nordic skiing] – such as [|cross-country], [|ski jumping] and [|Telemark] – in which skiers use free-heel bindings. [] || [|Britt Janyk] [|Michael Janyk] [|John Kucera] ||
 * **Sport** || **Canadian Athletes** ||
 * **Alpine Skiing**
 * **Biathlon**



Biathlon usually refers specifically to the [|winter sport] that combines [|cross-country skiing] and [|rifle shooting]. Another popular variant is summer biathlon, which combines cross-country running with riflery, and also [|modern biathlon] and [|biathle], which combine running with swimming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon || [|Megan Imrie] [|Zina Kocher] [|Jean-Philippe Le Guellec] ||
 * **Bobsleigh**



Bobsleigh is a [|winter sport] in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered [|sled]. The various types of sleds came several years before the first tracks were built in [|St Moritz], where the original bobsleds were adapted upsized [|Luge] / [|Skeleton] sleds designed by the adventurously wealthy to carry passengers. All three types were adapted from boys delivery sleds and [|toboggans]. Competition naturally followed, and to protect the working class and rich visitors in the streets and byways of St Moritz, hotel owner [|Caspar Badrutt], owner of the historic [|Krup Hotel] and the later [|Palace Hotel] , built the first familiarly configured 'half-pipe' track circa 1870. It has hosted the sports during two Olympics and is still in use today.

[] || [|Pierre Lueders] [|Heather Moyse] [|Lyndon Rush] ||
 * **Cross-Country Skiing**

Cross-Country Skiing is a [|winter sport] in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using [|skis] and poles. It is popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily [|Northern Europe], [|Canada] , [|Alaska] and the [|upper midwest United States]. [|[1]] Skiing can also be done indoor in [|ski tunnels]. Cross-country skiing is part of the [|Nordic skiing] sport family, which also includes [|ski jumping], and a combination sport of cross-country skiing and ski jumping called [|Nordic combined]. Free-technique cross-country skiing is also the method of [|locomotion] in the combination sport of [|Biathlon], which adds [|rifle marksmanship] to skiing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-country_skiing || [|Perianne Jones] [|Devon Kershaw] [|Sara Renner] ||
 * **Curling**



Curling is a team [|game] with similarities to [|bowls] and [|shuffleboard], played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared [|ice]. Teams take turns sliding heavy, polished [|granite] stones down the ice towards the target (called the //house//). Two sweepers with [|brooms] accompany each rock and use timing equipment and their best judgment, along with direction from their teammates, to help direct the stones to their resting place. The complex nature of stone placement and shot selection has led some to refer to curling as " [|chess] on ice."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling || [|Cheryl Bernard] [|Kevin Martin] ||
 * **Figure Skating**



Figure skating is an [|Olympic sport] in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform [|spins], [|jumps] , [|footwork] and other intricate and challenging moves on [|ice]. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level (senior), and at local, national, and international competitions. The [|International Skating Union] (ISU) regulates international figure skating judging and competitions. Figure skating is an official event in the [|Winter Olympic Games]. In languages other than English, figure skating is usually referred to by a name that translates as "artistic skating".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_Skating || [|John Mattatall] [|Scott Moir] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Cynthia Phaneuf] ||
 * **Free-Style Skiing**

Freestyle skiing is an acrobatic form of [|technical] and [|aerial] [|skiing]. It is organized into a number of different disciplines, although there are no impartial authorities for managing the sport internationally. Freestyle skiing first began to be taken seriously in the 1960s and early 1970s, when it was often known as " [|hot-dogging] ." [|Bob Burns] pioneered this style in [|Sun Valley, Idaho] beginning in 1965. [|[1]] In the late 1960s other followers of the style included Wayne Wong, Roger Evans, John Clendenin, Bob Salerno, and Tom LeRoy. Some people thought that this style of skiing was too dangerous and did not want it to be an Olympic sport. The free-form sport had few rules and wasn't without danger; knee injuries became a common phenomenon for professional freestylers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_style_skiing || <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Chloe Dufour-Lapointe] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Maxime Dufour-Lapointe] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Stanley Hayer] ||
 * **Ice-Hockey**

[|Ice hockey] tournaments have been staged at the [|Olympic Games] since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced at the [|1920 Summer Olympics] and was transferred permanently to the [|Winter Olympic Games] programme in 1924. The women's tournament was first held at the [|1998 Winter Olympics]. The Olympic Games were originally intended for [|amateur athletes], and until 1998, the players of the [|National Hockey League] (NHL) and other men's professional leagues were not allowed to compete. From 1924 to 1988, the tournament started with a [|round-robin] series of games and ended with the medal round. Medals were awarded based on points accumulated during that round. The games of the tournament follow the [|rules] of the [|International Ice Hockey Federation] (IIHF), which differ slightly from the [|rules used in the NHL].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_Olympic_Games ||

Composed of a Women’s and Men’s Hockey Team! ||
 * **Luge**

A luge is a small one- or two-person [|sled] on which one sleds [|supine] (face up) and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Luge is also the name of the [|sport] which involves racing with such sleds. It is a competition in which these sleds race against a timer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luge || <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Jeff Christie] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Ian Cockerline] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Sam Edney] ||
 * **Nordic Combined**



The Nordic combined is a [|winter sport] in which athletes compete in both [|cross-country skiing] and [|ski jumping].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_combined || <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Jason Myslicki] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Chanon Pretorius] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Wesley Savill] ||
 * **Short Track Speed Skating**

Short track speed skating (also //Shorttrack speedskating//) is a form of competitive [|ice] [|speed skating]. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a circumference of 111.12 m. The rink itself is 60 m by 30 m, which is the same size as an international-sized [|hockey rink].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_track_speed_skating || <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Charles Hamelin] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|François-Louis Tremblay] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Kalyna Roberge] ||
 * **Skeleton**

Skeleton or tobogganing is a fast [|winter sliding sport] in which an individual person rides a small [|sled] down a frozen track while lying face down, during which athletes experience forces up to 5Gs. It originated in [|St. Moritz, Switzerland] as a spin-off from the popular British sport of [|Cresta Sledding]. While skeleton "sliders" use similar equipment to that of cresta "riders", the two sports are different: while skeleton is run on the same track used by [|bobsleighs] and [|luge], cresta is run on cresta-specific sledding tracks only. Also, the skeleton sled has no steering or braking mechanism, while cresta sledders use skates on their feet to help steer and brake the sled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_%28sport%29 || <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Jeff Pain] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Mellisa Hollingsworth] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Mike Douglas] ||
 * **Ski Jumping**

Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down an "inrun" with a take-off ramp (the jump), attempting to fly as far as possible. In addition to the length that skiers jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long (260 to 275 centimetres (100 to 110 in)). Ski jumping is predominantly a [|winter sport], performed on snow, and is part of the [|Winter Olympic Games] , but can also be performed in summer on artificial surfaces (porcelain or frost rail track on the inrun, plastic on the landing hill).

[] || <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Eric Mitchell] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Trevor Morrice] ||
 * **Snowboarding**

Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a [|snowboard] attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a flexible mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by [|skateboarding], [|surfing] and [|skiing]. It was developed in the [|U.S.A.] in the 1960s and the 1970s and became a [|Winter Olympic Sport] in 1998.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowboarding || <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Jasey-Jay Anderson] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|François Boivin] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Pat Farrell] ||
 * **Speed Skating**

Speed skating or speedskating is a [|competitive] form of [|ice skating] in which the competitors [|race] each other in traveling a certain distance on [|skates]. Types of speedskating are [|long track speedskating], [|short track speedskating] and [|marathon speed skating]. In the Olympic Games, long track speedskating is usually referred to as just //speedskating//, while short track speedskating is known as //short track//. [|[1]] The ISU, governing body of both ice sports, refers to long track as "speed skating" and short track as "short track speed skating".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_skating || <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Vincent Labrie] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Lucas Makowsky] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Denny Morrison] ||