1998 Winter Olympics

It was a cold day in Whitley, Indiana, my birthplace. It was February 21, 1998. A woman by the name of Rhonda Sebert had just gone into the hospital ready to give birth to her second child. Several minutes after noon is when the baby finally arrived. The babies name: Justin Sebert. The parents of this legendary child were Mark Sebert and, of course, Rhonda Sebert. At that time, Justin Was just a little tyke. Arriving into this world at a mere 19 inches and 7.3 pounds. Not too long after his birth, Justin was taken home to Smalley Lake, Indiana. A small cluster of houses surrounding a lake. Justin spent much of his time as an infant either in a boat with his dad, or with both parents eating blueberries from the patch across the lake. That baby is me. However, February 21, the date I was born, there was plenty more happening than the birth of one child.…

People say that Emperor Norton once travelled the streets of San Francisco accompanied by two dogs named Lazarus and Bummer. Back in the late 1800s, dogs were seen as dirty and troubling animals, usually most of them strays and not allowed in the city unless they had an owner and a leash on their neck. On the other hand, according to Malcolm E. Barker’s Bummer and Lazarus: the Truth article, Lazarus and Bummer gained respect from the townsfolk from their expertise of killing rats and their…

Olympic SnowBoarding Essay From snowboarding to figure skating the Winter games have fascinated our lives. The Winter games have more roles in the real natural order. There are 6 types of snowboarding, but these paragraphs are revealing you about 1 called freestyle. Also, this will be talking about the gear someone would need if they went snowboarding. Maybe they will even inform you about someone who is the 2018 Winter Olympics right now. Lastly, they perhaps tell you about how the snowboard…

Men’s and Women’s ice hockey is a quick, physical, and thrilling team sport that attracts large crowds to the winter olympics. According to Olympic.org the first men’s ice hockey appearance in the olympics was at the Chomonix winter games in 1908. The women’s debut was much later at the 1998 Nagano winter games. Although hockey is a very fun sport to watch and play, many people get lost during the game because of the rules and regulations. The olympic ice hockey tournament can be very intense…

Hosting the Olympic Games is a massive risk that cities all around the world are willing to take. While many people assume that hosting the Games is a way out a debt, it can often be just the opposite. There are many factors that contribute to the success and failure of hosting the Olympics. For one, the result differ between country. Countries that are more stable seem to profit from hosting more than countries that are less developed and unstable. Hosting the Summer versus Winter Games can…

“The Montreal Olympics can no longer lose money than a man can have a baby”1 Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montreal from1960 to 1986 famously said. It was to be the first Canadian-hosted Olympics in our 76-year participation in the Games. However, the Games were marred by accidents, construction failures, and massive costs to the population of Montreal. The crown jewel of the first Canadian Games, the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was to be the shining new Olympics Stadium, estimated at an initial $134…

Louis "Louie" Zamperini is a young boy who has trouble doing what is right. As he grows up, he gets in more and more trouble for ever growing crimes. His older brother, hoping to curb his stealing habits, makes Louis run track. Louis and his natural speed and incredible work ethic allowed him to qualify for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany in the 5000 meter run. In the Olympic Trials, Louis was named co-champion of the race after tying world record holder and fellow American, Don Lash.…

Overview of the mega-event: “The Olympic Games” The Summer Olympic Games were first held in 1896 in Athens, Greece. At the time, only few competitions were set up and a small number of athletes competed. Until the games of 1948, only one candidate for each Olympic proposed to host. But as the Olympics started to grow rapidly, more countries started to develop an interest in hosting which has led to the creation of the bidding process by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In 2012, the…

Louis Zamperini was a olympian who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and was scheduled to compete in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics was cancelled due to WWII. Zamperini due to the cancellation of the Olympic enrolled in the Army Air Corps. He was later captured by the Chinese and sent into one of their slave camps. Although Louis Zamperini had a very good childhood his life would later be changed, and do the event of him being captured, placed in a slave camp, and surviving, he was…

representatives from 13 countries established their own international overriding body with the development of the Federation International de Luge de Course (F.I.L.). Luge was instated as an Olympic sport in 1964 at the IX Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria. The luge competition entails of four events: men 's singles, women 's singles, doubles and the team relay. Doubles teams can consist of two athletes of either gender, but currently no women are competing in doubles. Having no…