WINTER WONDERLAND TASK CARD 1 THE COMPETITION SCHEDULE

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1 WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 1 HE COMPEIION CHEDULE Opening ceremony ebruary Event competitions M W Event finals Exhibition gala 22 M W 25 Closing ceremony Gold medals Alpine skiing 10 Biathlon 10 Bobsleigh 3 Cross-country skiing 12 Curling 2 igure skating 4 reestyle skiing 6 Ice hockey 2 Luge 3 hort track 8 keleton 2 ki jumping 3 nowboarding 6 peed skating 12 otal gold medals Ceremonies ebruary M W Vancouver 2010 Olympic Competition chedule Vancouver Organizing Committee 2008 Use the Competition chedule to answer these questions In which sport are events held every day from the 13 th ebruary? 2. How many finals are being held in hort rack on the 26 th ebruary? 3. In which sport/s will the most gold medals be presented? 4. Which competition finishes the earliest? 5. How many gold medals will be contested in the eight Ice sports? 6. On which day will the least number of gold medals be presented? 7. Which sport will begin on the same day as the opening ceremony? 8. In the now boarding competition why do you think there is a seven day break between events? 9. Which sport is contested over the least number of days? 10. Why do you think an Exhibition gala is held at the end of the igure kating program? M W Nordic combined 3

2 WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 2 AURALIA A HE WINER OLYMPIC arejevo 1984 Calgary (5) (14) 17 2 Colin Coates Michael Richmon d Games Nation Australian eam ize Male Athlete emale Athlete Opening Ceremony lag Bearer Closing Ceremony lag Bearer otal Medals Albertville 1992 Lillehamme r (23) (25) 20 7 Danny Kah Kirstie Marshall Kirstie Marshall Chamonix Nagano (26) 16 8 Richard Nizielski Zali teggall t Moritz alt Lake City (25) Adrian Costa teven Bradbury Lake Placid 1932 Garmisch- Partenkirch en orino (46) Alisa Camplin Dale Begg- mith Overall t. Moritz ( ) igures in brackets demote number of officials Oslo 22 9 (1) Cortina d'ampezzo 1956 quaw Valley 1960 Innsbruck 1964 Grenoble 1968 apporo 1972 Innsbruck (3) (7) 27 4 Vic Ekburg 36 6 (5) (4) 3 - Malcolm Milne 35 4 (5) (1) 5 3 Colin Coates 1. In which years did more officials go to the Olympics than athletes? 2. Which two cities hosted the most Nations to compete at the Olympics? 3. How many Modern Winter Olympics have Australia not competed in? 4. Name the women who have been lag Bearers. 5. In total how many officials have gone to the Winter Games? 6. What do you think the officials jobs entail? 7. List in order by year, the largest to smallest Australian team. 8. At which games was the number of male and female athletes closest? 9. Which games have been the most successful for Australia? 10. Why do you think Australia has become more successful at more recent Winter Olympics? Lake Placid (5) 6 4 Robert McIntyre

3 WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 3 HOING HE GAME Use the Locations of the Winter Olympics table on the Winter Wonderland Part A page to help you answer these questions. 1. Which country has hosted the Winter Games the most? 2. Why were the Games cancelled in 1940 and 1944? 3. Have the games ever been held in the outhern Hemisphere? 4. When were the games only held two years apart instead of four? Why was this? 5. Which cities / towns have hosted the Games twice? 6. Which countries have hosted the most Winter Games? 7. Which Games (in Roman Numerals) are being held in Russia? 8. How many years has it been since Canada last hosted the Games? 9. List where each of the following games were held IV VII XI XVI XX 10. ind out which city was meant to originally host the 1976 Winter Games and why they were moved to Innsbruck, Austria. * Mark roughly on the map the places in the world where the winter Olympics have been held. WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 4 LOGO Imagine Mt Kosciusko, Australia, has been given the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Design a logo for the Games. Your design should reflect the region, its people and the event. Below are some former logos used at Winter Olympics.

4 WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 5 CANADIAN CURRENCY In Canada the currency used is dollars and cents. o distinguish it from other dollar currencies in the world it is abbreviated to C$. If you were to go to Vancouver in Canada you would have to use this currency and exchange Australian dollars for Canadian Dollars. Using the exchange rate listed, calculate the cost of the following activities at the Winter Games in Australian dollars. 1 Canadian Dollar = 1.05 Australian Dollars * ind out the exchange rate listed today. 1 ticket to the opening ceremony - C$550 A return bus ticket to Whistler to watch the Bobsleigh events C$50 2 tickets to the men s Ice Hockey inal C$775 each 5 X 250ml souvenir bottles of Maple yrup - C$17.99 each 4 people on a sightseeing tour of Vancouver - $98 pp 7 nights accommodation C $235 per night I AY, I AY, I AY WINER WONDERLAND Un-jumble these sayings / idioms and match them to the meanings (in brackets). the as pure snow as driven ( to hurry) on thin skating ice (to get something started) under be snowed to ( taking a big risk) around skating issue the ( to be good) AK CARD 6 to the ice break ( to delay plans / to deal with at a later time) on skates put your to ( to have no influence on someone or something) put on to ice ( to avoid dealing with a problem) have to effect a snowball ( something that has become bigger and bigger) cut ice to no ( to have a large amount of work to do)

5 WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 7 A NEW OLYMPIC POR Invent a new Winter Olympic sport. here are many unusual Olympic ports, like skeleton (running then sledding) and curling (using brooms to propel an object over ice). Make up a new winter sport that would be fun to watch and play. Name of sport : Playing ield / Venue: Equipment : How to Play: Diagram : WINER WONDERLAND PORING EQUIPMEN Match the equipment with the sport it is used in. Equipment port tick Biathlon led Ice Hockey arget Curling Half Pipe Ice Hockey Rifle peed kating Puck Bobsleigh rack Curling Granite tone nowboarding Poles Biathlon Broom kiing AK CARD 8

6 WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 9 WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 10 PORING YMBOL Match the symbols to the sports listed. ski jumping curling biathlon luge figure skating AUIE, AUIE, AUIE Crack the code to work out which sport each of these Australian Athletes will be competing in at the XXI Winter Olympics. Alex Almoukov Dale Begg mith Esther Bottomley Craig Branch Hannah Campbell-Pegg speed skating Duncan Harvey skeleton Lachlan Hay aerials cross country bobsleigh Melissa Hoar cotty James Lydia Lassila ophie Muir snowboarding alpine skiing C V Z I X Q L J A R

7 WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 11 WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 12 HE MOO A motto is developed for the Olympics to welcome the world and recognize the inspirational achievement of the athletes participating and valuable contribution of the dedicated volunteers at the Games. he motto is used leading up to the Games and throughout the event in promotional activities and at the sports venues. he official 2010 Winter Games motto has been chosen to express the character and personality of Canada s Games. With Glowing Hearts is the motto and Des plus brillants exploits was unveiled as the rench motto for the Games. Although the English and rench versions are different, they are both taken from the Canadian National Anthem. * Why does the motto have both an English and rench version? HE MACO Choose one of the mascots to write a newspaper report about. Imagine you are having an interview with the mascot. Use the descriptions below to help you. Visit to find out more about them. MIGA is a sea bear who lives in the ocean but loves to go nowboarding. he is an Orca Whale that can transform, when on land, into a rare white Kermode bear that is only found in British Columbia. QUACHI is a asquatch (or Big oot). his big, hairy creature is very shy and his favourite sport is ice hockey. UMI is an animal spirit that lives in the mountains. He wears the hat of an Orca Whale, flies with the wings of the thunderbird and has the strong furry legs of the black bear. Imagine Mt Kosciusko, Australia, has been given the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Devise a motto for the Games that reflect the character and personality of Winter Games in Australia. MukMuk is a rare and endangered Vancouver Island marmot who loves to eat. his small but very loud creature is a great supporter of the games. Example of past mottos:- (urin 2006) (alt Lake City 2002)

8 IME YOUR RUN WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 13 In the final of the two run bobsleigh competition, weden, Canada, Italy and outh Korea posted the following times. Using the clues, figure out each team s time for each run, then calculate their combined run time to determine the Gold, ilver and Bronze medals. he times on the first run were: he times on the first run were: 1 minute and seconds 1 minute and seconds 1 minute and seconds 1 minute and seconds 1 minute and seconds 1 minute and seconds 1 minute and seconds 1 minute and seconds CLUE 1. On the second run the team from weden was ninety-one hundredths of a second slower than their first run. 2. he team that finished the first run in one minute and seconds was not the team that finished the second run in either one minute and seconds or one minute and seconds. 3. On the first run, the team from outh Korea was ninety- two hundredths of a second behind the winners of the first run. 4. he team from Italy finished the second race in less than one minute and 19 seconds. 5. he team from Canada finished the first race in less than one minute and seconds. 6. he bobsleigh team from outh Korea clocked a combined time of two minutes and seconds. PEEDY KAE WINER WONDERLAND AK CARD 14 he hort rack peed kating rink at the Olympics is a 111metre oval. teve is skating in the 1500 metre event. How many times will he have to skate around the rink to complete the event? It takes the Czech Republic ice hockey team 31 minutes to drive from the athletes village to the Ice Hockey tadium. It takes them 25 minutes to change into their uniforms and 45 minutes to warm up. he game begins at 3:45pm. What is the latest time the team can leave the village to be ready to play when the game starts? he seating capacity at the Long rack peed kating Arena is On the first day of events, 8600 of the seats were filled. What percentage of the total number of seats was taken?