Olympics

This week the Winter Olympics is taking place in Russia. The Olympics is really fun to watch because you get to watch some of the best athletes in the world compete.  I personally prefer watching the Summer Olympics over the Winter Olympics but I still may catch a few of the winter events if I get the chance.

                I enjoy watching the Summer Olympics more than I like watching the Winter Olympics because there is running in the Summer Olympics and I am a runner. Watching all of the runners in the Summer Olympics helps to motivate me because they are so fast that even though I will probably never reach their speed I still want to try to get faster and be a better runner.

                It’s incredible to see how fast all of the runners are. It is really fun to watch the sprinting events because the runners are really close to the same speed and it’s a completion all the way to the end. Watching longer events can get kind of boring but it’s still awesome to see the amazingly fast pace the marathon runners can run twenty six miles in. There pace is probably faster than the pace at which I run two and a half miles in. Swimming is also a fun event to watch because it is kind of structured like running, you have to go a certain distance but your swimming instead and there is also a lot of close competition too.

                In the Winter Olympics I enjoy watching figure skating because they have fun routines and are very graceful.  I also sometimes like to watch the speed skating and the different skiing events because I am just at awe with what they are able to do. I can hardly ski or skate without falling a lot so for an athlete to be able to do it really fast is amazing to me.

                I enjoy watching the Olympics because it is a chance to be able to see the best athletes from all over the world compete and it just amazes me at all the skills they have but I prefer the Summer Olympics over the Winter Olympics because the Summer Olympics has running. (370)