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  1. 8th February 1.
  2.  
  3. Men's Slopestyle final is held today. This is the first time Slopestyle is
  4. being competed in an Olympic level. In what place will the qualification-winner
  5. be after the final?
  6.  
  7. a) 1-3
  8.  
  9. b) 4-8
  10.  
  11. c) 9-12
  12.  
  13. 9th February 2.
  14.  
  15. Men's Singles Run 3 and 4 in Luge are held today. In a tragic accident during
  16. the 2010 Winter Olympics, Georgian luger passed away during a training run.
  17. Georgia doesn't have athletes performing today but which of these Asian lugers
  18. will be placed best in the final standings?
  19.  
  20. a) Shiva Keshavan IOC (India)
  21.  
  22. b) Hidenori Kanayama JPN
  23.  
  24. c) Dong-Hyeon Kim KOR
  25.  
  26.  
  27. 1Oth February 3.
  28.  
  29. Men's 1500m final in Short Track Speed Skating will be held today. The track
  30. is only 111,22m long so the athletes will go around the oval 13 full laps.
  31. Which event will give us the fastest time?
  32.  
  33. a) Heats
  34.  
  35. b) semifinals
  36.  
  37. c) finals
  38.  
  39. 11th February 4.
  40.  
  41. Womens individual normal hill competition in Skijumping will be held today. This
  42. is the first time women compete in skijumping in Olympic level. 15 female
  43. skijumpers filed a suit for allowing women to compete for the 2010 Winter Games
  44. but it was denied. Internation Olympic Committee officially accepted women
  45. skijumping for Olympics 6 April 2011.
  46. What will be the age of the first olympic gold-medalist in Skijumping for women?
  47.  
  48. a) 17-20
  49.  
  50. b) 21-25
  51.  
  52. c +25 years.
  53.  
  54.  
  55. 12th February 5.
  56.  
  57. Men's Individual large hill and 10km in Nordic Combined will be held today.
  58. The method where the skijumping points is transferred to the skiing starting
  59. times dates back to 1985 and to a norwegian Gunder Gundersen who came up with it.
  60. What is the winner's gap to the leader after the skijumping part in seconds?
  61.  
  62. a) 0-25
  63.  
  64. b) 26-50
  65.  
  66. c) +50 seconds
  67.  
  68.  
  69. 13th February 6.
  70.  
  71. Women's 1000m competition in Speed Skating will be held today. Netherlands
  72. is the only country who has quotas for every Speed Skating event. But today the
  73. biggest favourite to win is American Brittany Bowe who set the world record in
  74. November 2013. What is her result today?
  75.  
  76. a) World Record and Gold
  77.  
  78. b) Gold
  79.  
  80. c) Other
  81.  
  82.  
  83. 14th February 7.
  84.  
  85. Men's Singles free skate round in Figure Skating will be held today.
  86. Michael Martinez will compete for Philippines in this event. This is the 4th time
  87. Philippines sends an athelete to Winter Olympics and first time to a Figure
  88. Skating event.
  89. Which combination of elements where you score result in the highest amount of
  90. points in the winners score-sheet?
  91.  
  92. a) Performance/Execution & Transitions
  93.  
  94. b) Interpretation & Skating Skills
  95.  
  96. c) Choreography & Interpretation
  97.  
  98.  
  99. 15th February 8.
  100.  
  101. Men's Singles runs 3 and 4 in Skeleton will be held today. In skeleton the sled
  102. that the athletes use has no steering or brakes, all is done with the competitors
  103. shoes which can have a maximum of 8 spikes, speed during the run can go over
  104. 140 km/h.
  105. Germany, Latvia and Russia produce the top-level in Skeleton, which of these
  106. nations have the best placed athlete today?
  107.  
  108. a) Germany
  109.  
  110. b) Latvia
  111.  
  112. c) Russia
  113.  
  114.  
  115. 16th February 9.
  116.  
  117. Men's 4x10km Relay event in Cross-country Skiing will be held today.
  118. Sweden is defending olympic winner from Vancouver. Sweden is also the only
  119. country who has managed to win two Olympic Golds in this event in a row in 1984
  120. and 1988 with names like Thomas Wassberg and Gunde Svan.
  121. In which change, will Sweden be placed best?
  122.  
  123. a) First (Rickardsson-Olsson)
  124.  
  125. b) Second (Olsson-Södergren)
  126.  
  127. c) Third (Södergren-Hellner)
  128.  
  129. The order of the atletes is based on 2010 Winter Olympics order, it might change
  130. for this event.
  131.  
  132.  
  133. 17th February 10.
  134.  
  135. Women's 12,5km mass start in Biathlon will be held today.
  136. Before Biathlon was introduced as an Olympic sport, Military patrol was a team
  137. winter sport where medals were awarded in 1924. It consisted in addition to
  138. cross-country skiing and rifle shooting also ski mountaineering and the team had
  139. one officer, sub-officer and two privates.
  140. Today's mass start competition penalizes a miss with 150m penalty-loop.
  141. How many misses will the person who has them most have?
  142.  
  143. a) 0-3
  144.  
  145. b) 4-5
  146.  
  147. c) +6
  148.  
  149.  
  150. 18th February 11.
  151.  
  152. Men's Halfpipe final in Freestyle Skiing will be held today. This is the first
  153. time Half-pipe Skiing is in the Olympics. It has been part of the Winter X Games
  154. since 2002 but the pipe has higher walls than in the Olympics. North-American
  155. countries are favourites to man the gold-medal position today, which country or
  156. rest of the world will have the most medals today?
  157.  
  158. a) Canada
  159.  
  160. b) USA
  161.  
  162. c) Rest of the world
  163.  
  164.  
  165. 19th February 12.
  166.  
  167. Women's Two-woman competition in Bobsleigh will be held today.
  168. Bobsleigh crew is made up by the pilot and a brakeman, in four-man events the
  169. two additional members only do pushing in the beginning.
  170. Germany will have three teams in this event, whom of these members of the teams
  171. will be placed best?
  172.  
  173. a) Sandra Kiriasis
  174.  
  175. b) Cathleen Martini
  176.  
  177. c) Anja Schneiderheinze
  178.  
  179.  
  180. 20th February 13.
  181.  
  182. Women's Icehockey final will be held today.
  183. Canada has lost only game during the time Woman's tournament has been held in
  184. the Olympics since 1998 The loss came in the 1998 Nagano Olympic Final against
  185. USA. New format is introduced in these Olympics. Top 2 from Group advance to
  186. semi-finals and Bottom 2 of Group A plays against Top 2 of Group B in the quarter
  187. finals.
  188. From which setting comes the silver-medalist in this tournament?
  189.  
  190. a) Top 2 in Group A
  191.  
  192. b) Bottom 2 in Group A
  193.  
  194. c) Top 2 in Group
  195.  
  196.  
  197. 21st February 14.
  198.  
  199. Men's Curling final will be played today.
  200. In 1924 Olympics Curling was introduced to the Olympic but after that and until
  201. 1998 it became a demonstration sport. During the 1924 Olympics British D.G.
  202. Astley joined the Swedish team in a playoff-game against France. In the end
  203. Great Britain won gold and Sweden silver. That means that officially D.G. Astley
  204. is the only olympic athlete who have won two medals in the same event and for
  205. different nations.
  206. In which end will the game-winning point will be placed?
  207.  
  208. a) 0-4
  209.  
  210. b) 5-7
  211.  
  212. c) 8-10
  213.  
  214.  
  215. 22nd February 15.
  216.  
  217. Men's Slalom competition in Alpine Skiing will be held today.
  218. Minimum ski lenght for men in Slalom is 165cm which is around 30% less than the
  219. lenght of Downhill skis.
  220. What place will the 2nd runs fastest athlete come from the 1st round?
  221.  
  222. a) 1-10
  223.  
  224. b) 11-20
  225.  
  226. c) 21-30
  227.  
  228.  
  229. 23rd February 16.
  230.  
  231. Men's Icehockey Final will be played tonight.
  232. Finland has the most medals since NHL allowed players to join in the Olympics
  233. in 1998 with one silver and two bronze-medals.
  234. Which of these players, who have a chance to be inducted into Triple Gold Club
  235. if they win Olympic gold, will rank best with their team?
  236.  
  237. a) Pavel Datsyuk & Evgeni Malkin, Russia
  238.  
  239. b) Marian Hossa, Slovakia
  240.  
  241. c) Tomas Kaberle, Czech Republic
  242.  
  243.  
  244. That concludes the question part! Now it's time to head for the medal round.
  245.  
  246. In medal round you will choose three nations that are listed to compete in
  247. the six events listed. Then you must assign those three nations to the 6 events
  248. so that every nation gets listed twice.
  249.  
  250. The nations where you can choose among:
  251.  
  252. Australia
  253. Austria
  254. Canada
  255. Czech Republic
  256. Finland
  257. France
  258. Germany
  259. Italy
  260. Japan
  261. Netherlands
  262. Norway
  263. Poland
  264. Russia
  265. Slovakia
  266. Slovenia
  267. South Korea
  268. Sweden
  269. Switzerland
  270. Ukraine
  271. United States
  272.  
  273. Events:
  274.  
  275. Alpine Skiing, Women, Downhill
  276.  
  277. Biathlon, Mixed, 4x6/7,5km relay
  278.  
  279. Cross-country Skiing, Men, Skiathlon
  280.  
  281. Freestyle Skiing, Men, Moguls
  282.  
  283. Snowboarding, Men, Snowboard cross
  284.  
  285. Speed Skating, Women, 3000m
  286.  
  287.  
  288. You get two points for gold medal and one for silver and bronze.
  289.  
  290. That concludes the medal round!
  291.  
  292. Here we go Fantasy Olympics!
  293.  
  294. In this part you will choose an athlete to compete in the events listed.
  295.  
  296.  
  297. Choose one athelete from the list:
  298.  
  299. Icehockey, Men
  300.  
  301. Sidney Crosby, CAN
  302. Patrick Kane, USA
  303. Alexander Ovechkin, RUS
  304.  
  305. Points: 1p awarded for every point the player makes in the tournament. Additional
  306. point if the player wins a medal.
  307.  
  308. Biathlon, Women
  309.  
  310. Darya Domracheva, BLR
  311. Kaisa Mäkäräinen, FIN
  312. Anastasiya Kuzmina, SLO
  313.  
  314. Points: For every missed shot the athlete makes in the races you will lose a
  315. point.
  316.  
  317. Figure Skating, Women
  318.  
  319. Elena Gedevanishvili, GEO
  320. Carolina Kostner, ITA
  321. Akiko Suzuki, JPN
  322.  
  323. Points: You will get the same amount of points than the athlete scores in her
  324. best element. For every deduction you lose a point.
  325.  
  326.  
  327. Curling, Men
  328.  
  329. Sven Michel, SUI
  330. John Hahr, GER
  331. Andrey Drozdov, RUS
  332.  
  333. Points: You will get a point from every win and lose a point for every loss.
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