The Olympics So Far

Our family has been watching a lot of the Olmpics these last few weeks and I have enjoyed watching them so far. My favorite events to watch have been the skiing and snowboarding competitions. I enjoyed seeing Linsey Vonn get the gold metal in her skiing competition. I only recently tried to ski and I found it extremely difficult. I fell down many times and I even found it hard to get my ski boot on when I first started. It is very hard to imagine doing skiing at over fifty or sixty miles-per-hour.

I also watched Shaun White get a gold metal in the half-pike snowboarding competition. I think it is amazing how he gained so much air-time without looking like he put that much effort in it. I can now fully appreciate why the expectations on him were so high going in to the Olympics.