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SOCHI (Russia) - Kidding, but not too much, the Olympics opening February 7 in Russia could be called "The Games of Equal Opportunities", since, Nordic Combined in part, the women will compete in all disciplines. And the numbers of the races grow up to celebrate the new record ...
Friday 3 January 2014 3 minutes reading time
Diamoli, this record will be 98 disciplines and therefore the'' gold medals up for grabs, a total of 294 laurels will be placed around the necks of athletes. Twelve new disciplines and in three of these (ROLLERBLADING figure, biathlon and luge) here'' s introduction of the test in mixed teams, male and female together, as, incidentally, is happening now for a couple of seasons in prestigious disciplines summer, diving and swimming, although there the mixed races have not yet arrived at the Games. But maybe they will do in Rio 2016.
In figure skating, just to give an example, we will have six members per team, a man, a woman, a couple of art and dance, although obviously no direct conflict between the sexes (which, however, occurs in the challenge. swimming ..!). Games lacked the spectacle of women jumping from the springboard, will be in Sochi. In April 2011, the IOC had also added the race to artificial luge mixed team'' s halfpipe freestyle and medley relay in biathlon.
It is precisely here's the news of the slopestyle (freestyle):'' the athlete performs on a path along which there are several obstacles such as jumps and jumps, where they performed the various "tricks" plus a series of coded figures. The course is characterized by different modules, such as boxes, rails to slide and slip and kicks, trampolines snow thanks to which it can be maneuvered. Finally, the last numbers: more than 5,000 athletes, 75,000 tourists, 3,000,000,000 of public television, 36 billion euro, on the other hand, it is said, those spent by Putin ...
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