Толстова Анастасия ученица 5 класса МБОУ «СОШ им М. М. Рудченко с. Перелюб»

Winter sports were brought into the Olympic programme through the organization of special Winter Games, first held in France at Chamonix in 1924, with competitions in ice hockey, speedskating, figure skating, and skiing. These are still the basic events of the winter programme, with the addition of bobsleigh and toboggan races, and ice hockey.

Hockey is played on a rink forty metres long by six players on each of two teams.It is very interesting, fast, and dynamic game.It is played with a puck and long straight sticks with an angle at the bottom. The team that scores the most goals wins.

One more exciting kind of winter sports is ski-jumping.

Sportsmen skate with a high speed at the distance of 500–1500 meters around an oval ice arena. It has been in the Olympic Program since 1992 (Iberville, France).

It is a combination of Ski races with shooting at the targets. It consists of individual ski race, sprint, pursuit race with consequent relay and mixed relay between men and women, and a mass start.

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