Mikaela Shiffrin’s gold medal win is hands down of the the sketchiest things I have ever seen. She flys down an icy slope at raceway speeds, like it doesn't get anymore rad than that. Besides the men's halfpipe, the giant solum was my favorite moment from the olympics. I love to snowboard but I live on the coast so the closest resort from me is like five hours away from where I live. If anyone asked me what my favorite moment of the past olympics where, I would definitely respond with Shaun White’s gold medal on the halfpipe. To me there is nothing like seeing the snow fly out from under your board. There is nothing like catching those moments of snowboarders in the air on screen. Shaun makes the snowboard halfpipe competition look like someone turned off the gravity switch. Ok, maybe I exaggerated a little bit but if you have snowboarded before I think you would understand. At the end of the day, I think that the United States crushed it and special shout out to the curling team!
My favorite movement so far in the Winter Olympics has been the amazing return of Shaun White and his legacy as a snowboarder. After watching his awesome final run down the half pipe he seemed to have given it his all. The sports announcer was commentating the entire time about all the different moves and how many points they would add up to be. When the judges announced that Shaun White has won with a final score of 97 everyone went crazy. As a fellow USA competitor said “It’s more than another gold medal”. This rings true for Shaun White as this gold medal for him represents his return to power in the snowboarding world. Seeing his reaction to it all and his surprise was the best part of the event because it shows to the world what one determined American can do.
My favorite moment by far was when Shaun White once again took home another gold medal in the half pipe. On his last run he pulled out an amazing run to score a 97.75. I have always been a fan of Shaun White and was very happy when he won yet another gold medal.
Another important event that took place at the Winter Olympics is how North and South Korea stood unified under one flag. This act of unification could symbolize a beginning of peace between the two Korean countries.
My favorite moment of the Winter Olympics this year was seeing Shaun White make his return to snowboarding and take home the gold. I’ve always been a huge Shaun White fan and used to love watching him pull off near impossible tricks on the half pipe and take home gold after gold after gold at such a young age. Now seeing him come back and do it at a much older age just shows the true talent that this man has. I’m inspired by his drive to get better and his passion for the sport and one day hope to have the same for whatever I do in my life.
The Olympics is an anticipated event that so many people enjoy to watch, me being one of them. My family and I enjoy watching the winter and the summer olympics together. Most of the time the olympics don’t impact me much, but this year the games have actually been very inspiring to young athletes all around the world.
So many young kids have taken home medals this year in the winter Olympics. It is very inspiring knowing that someone still in high school (or just out of high school) has the potential to win something as big as the Olympics. This shows that no matter how young you are, if you really try for something it will happen. This statement relates to the article about Mikaela Shiffrin because when she first competed in the Olympic games, she went home in 5th place. Mikaela wasn't happy with her score so she kept practicing until she came back to the Olympic games and won first place. Just a little hard work and determination changed her life.
The Olympics, either winter or summer, is my favorite sporting event. The only problem that I have with it is that we have to wait every 2 years to be able to watch the incredible athletes from around the world perform on the highest level. The competition is not the only thing that I love about the Olympics. I love how it is the perfect stage for all countries to put away their differences and to come together to celebrate. I also learn about sports that I have never heard of, and every year I learn something new. I never realized how tough and dangerous a sport like skeleton is. It may just look like they are not doing anything, but it takes tremendous control to keep the sled on the track.
The most mesmerizing moment for me in this years Olympics is Red Gerard, the 17 year old US snowboarder that won gold in the slopestyle event. He is the youngest male olympic snowboarding champion ever. It is hard to imagine how a kid only a year older than me is able to win the gold on the world’s biggest stage. He is half the age of some of his teammates, and it gives me motivation in my life that just because you are young doesn’t mean that you can’t make a difference. I can’t wait to see what else the olympics has in store.
I absolutely love the Olympics- both winter and summer. I always look forward to cheering on Team USA, and this year, it's been great to see younger athletes dominate at the Winter Olympics such as Red Gerard and Chloe Kim. You can find me sitting on my couch, squeezing the life out of a pillow when Team USA is competing in any event. Throughout the day, I'm constantly checking for updates on the Olympics, whether it's the current medal count, results, etc. But what's even better to see this year than Team USA, is South Korea and North Korea united under one flag. It's amazing to see what effect sports has on the world. The Olympics are respected and revered around the world, and this year have caused the seclusive North Korea to join with its southern counterpart. This Korean team represents peace, and I find myself routing for their team just as much as Team USA. I appreciate how far they've gone to being a unified team, especially by making a joint women's hockey team. Even though they haven't won a single game this Olympics, the fact that they're playing together, is the best win of all. We can only hope that this unity and peace that are being experienced in the games will translate into a much greater picture in the future.
I have always preferred the Winter Olympics over its summer counterpart, mainly due to my love of snow sports. However, my favorite moment of the Olympics hasn't been Shaun White's incredible redemption run to get the half pipe gold, or Mikaela Shiffrin's spectacular effort to win giant slalom. In fact, it hasn't been a sport at all; It’s been seeing the North and South Koreans, unified under one flag, enter into the opening ceremony.
The Olympics, while centered around athletics, is in reality a showcase of togetherness, friendship, and this year, diplomacy. With North Korea’s past of aggression and seclusion, and their recent threats against various countries, it really reaches me that countries can set aside differences so large, and that it is possible to come together and find peace. To me, this Korean team represents diplomacy, peace, and most importantly, progression. So while I am truly amazed at the talent and work of people like Mikaela Shiffrin, I see this unified team as the best part of the Olympics, and a large step in the right direction.
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My favorite moments in the Olympics are watching the hyped American athletes fail to live up to their hype. It reminds me of the time the Times picked Hillary Clinton to be our president.
The premature story on Lindsay Jacobellis and her mind-coach/performance architect who teaches American stockbrokers to fear what they are doing was a beauty. Even better to read it after the athlete, the first one the mind-coach trained, earned fourth only after another woman tripped at the finish and Jacobellis passed her.
This morning, I opened the paper to read of the young man yesterday being touted as an "artist" figure skater falling in 3 of his jumps in the short program. They thought he would do a jump that nobody ever did before, and he could not do the required ones without blundering. The paper called it "pressure".
I would run, not walk, if the Times tried to do a triumphant article on me before I earned my praise. (The Times tried to downplay the 3 medal winners in Jacobellis' snowboardcross race, as newbies, when she is so well known in the sport, but she only has a silver Olympics medal, plus a bunch of championships in now-cancelled competitions. That's not Olympics gold.)
Maybe she will go media silent, and come back in 4 years and win, like the man Heiden did for his sister who died of cancer. Stories are nice, but not how you win Olympics gold.
Love the USA. Hate the media pre-hype. EVERYbody competes, not just Americans. (Do I get an essay F, teacher?)
In many cases I find the line between a easy write article that banks on hype and news very thin. The innate problem with topics such as sports, especially events that exist on hype for teams, is you cannot add much. You can argue that speculation and more opinion based articles are better, and i would agree, but the sad true is that someone still has to write the summary of the events. I would say that it would be better and more realistic if the article just included the graphics and a quick summary, not the extreme positive tone on someone who is not every doing too well. Despite this, I still do not disagree with the article’s existence, others enjoy it and want to hear a heartwarming story about a member from their country, because of this the media will respond with said type of article. I do not commonly read these articles, because they do not benefit me, and although I would hope New York Times would shift their priorities the problems which fuel these articles are cultural and unavoidable, not a writer’s fault, although I would hope they fight it at times.
Relating hype to president picks hurts your credibility, as a pick at least includes predictions and reasoning, versus hype which especially in the article’s case lacks this. Trying to connect these topics makes the writer look as if they are stretching to make a statement about politics, which in some ways it is connected, but not by much. (You deserve much more than an F)