unusual olympic sports
for many people the olympic games consist of poppular sports like swiming running or ice skating
here are three unusual olympicevents and three athletes who fell in love with them
curling is a sport that is played on ice two team of four player each slide eight stones along the ice to a colored circle
the object of the game is to place a stone closest to the center of the house
i started curling very young
candaian olympic curler sammy mccann told us
my father managed a hotel with an ice rink
as soon as the people left the ice my friends and i would get right on and start curling
trampoline
kids have been jumping on trampoline for almost a hundred years but it was only at the 2000 olympic game in sydney that trampoline became on official olympic sport
each trampoline gymnast is judged on ten different skill
A gymnest can score well by showing that they can control their bodies while jumping high and twisting and flipping smoothly in the air
i've been doing it since i was five years old
american trampoline gymnest after jennifer competed in the 2000 olympics
as the only american trampoline gymnest
she got a tattoo of a butterfly to remind her of her new begining as an olympian
skeleton
the sport of skeleton racing first became an olympic sport in 1928
skeleton racers slide down an icy course at very high speech on a simple sleds looked like human skeletons