Young Writers 2010
Non-fiction 2-3
Fiction 4-5
Non-fiction 6-8
Ladies and gentlemen, there’s
a new game at the winter Olympics this year: snowperson building.
Three member teams from each country will be participating. We
will supply the snow! The snowperson can be big or small.
Each team will have 30 minutes to shop at Wal-mart to get the materials
needed. Teams will have one hour to build their snowperson.
Judges will give points for appearance of the snow person, difficulty
building, and overall effort. Please do not stare at the sun
while building. All snow people must have a face, 2 arms, and 3
body parts. Please do not use yellow snow. The top three
countries that win will get a big gold medal for first place, a medium
silver medal for second place and a small bronze medal for third
place. Countries whose snow people do not win medals, will be
scooped up and made into milkshakes!
Attention everybody!! A
new Olympic sport will be coming this winter! It is called
penguin riding!
You’ll need your own well
trained penguin. Only very strong, well trained penguins that can
hold your weight will be used (For example, emperor penguins).
You must know the correct way to feed it, train it, and ride it.
Every contestant must do very well with penguins, you must have
strength that can control it.
The equipment needed will be
a penguin, a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads, and back pads.
This event will be scored by
if you fall off, how long you go, how fast you go and if you have fun!
There shall be 8
rounds. All of the rounds will be outdoors. Fifty
contestants will be allowed in the race. Some rounds will be
long, others will be short. Some will have tricks and others will
not. Each contestant will be in its own lane. The lanes
will be 2 ½ yards wide. If someone goes into someone else’s lane
they will be kicked out. You may not push or shove. Any
cheating, you will be out.
If we have a tie, we will
have a fashion penguin show. Dress your penguin up nicely and
ride.
Make sure that you are ready
and are well trained for penguin riding.
I hope to see you there!
The Olympics are going on and
they go really fast in some of the sports. But sometimes faster
isn’t better and can lead to accidents. One dangerous thing is
the luge. A luge is a small one or two person sled. You lay
on it face up and feet first. You sled down an icy track and are
timed to see who wins. But it can be dangerous. Georgian
luger Nodar Kumarit died on the luge when he lost control of his sled
and slammed into a steel pole at nearly 70 mph. Seven other sleds
crashed on the same track. Skiing is dangerous too. Seven
women fell and hurt themselves. One, Daniela Merighetti from
Italy, fell right before the final jump and fell head first. She
lost both of her skis and ending up going through the finish
line. The final jump on the woman’s course was lowered. A
bobsled goes really fast so if you crash you really can get hurt.
Duncan Harvey crashed on his first day of training. So remember
the Olympics might be fun, but they are dangerous.
Winter Olympics 2014 in
Russia will feature this new Olympic event “Triathlon Race”. Hey
what is it? I haven’t heard about it. Did you? Well,
nobody would have heard about it, so I will tell you. This game
involves skills on ice, water, and air. It is a race to see who
will finish the triathlon first.
You will design you own vehicle to ride on. It will be a
combination of a sledge, a boat, and a glider. The race track
will obviously have lots of ice as it is winter Olympics, but also has
a stream constructed to cross and a hill and valley to glide on.
Each country has a team of 5 people inside their designed
vehicle. It is not like a relay game in which you have three
different vehicles; 2 riders in a sledge in ice, 2 riders rowing a boat
in water and 1 rider gliding the glider in air. All the three
things to be performed by a specially designed single vehicle with all
5 team members riding inside the vehicle. Elimination rounds will
take place in the trial tracks and the top 5 teams will participate in
the finals.
Rules:
See you on February 7, 2014
in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia for the XXII Olympic Winter Games.
A high-speed race in which
skaters glide around an icy track, a sport where winners are decided by
hundredths of a second, and a form of exercise bringing delight to
people since the 19th century are all words describing the winter sport
of speed skating!
In the Winter Olympics, speed
skating has two types: long track and short track, both of which
involve ice skaters to competitively race around an oval track.
This sport is one of the most exciting parts of the Olympic Games and
has boasted many successful athletes. Speed skating is for both
men and women and dates back over a millennium. This year’s
Olympic Winter Games’ speed skating events are held in the Richmond
Olympic Oval in Vancouver. There are events covering distances
from 500 to 10,000 meters and the skaters involved can reach
blood-rushing speeds of up to around 35 mph! There is also
another form of speed skating, called marathon speed skating, though it
is not part of the Winter Olympics. In order to win a speed
skating event, one of the skaters must have the fastest time or cross
the finish line first. The attire of speed skaters include
aerodynamic body suits and a helmet or head cover, depending on whether
it is long or short track, along with the suit. Skaters also wear
clap skates that enable them to rush speedily around the track.
Speed skating brings batches of joy to people all across the globe,
because of the elegant skating displayed.
Speed skating has been, for a
long time, a sporting event that leaves onlookers blown away by the
skaters’ swift but graceful gliding about the track. At the
Olympics, it is a way of enjoyment and competition and will be for all
of the Olympics to come.