Figure Skating Gold Is Russia’s First
For the last five years, construction trucks have rumbled day and night through the street that bisects the village, on what used to be a gravel road but was paved over for Olympic building purposes. The village has gone without fresh water since 2008..
Defying, and Then Exploiting, Gravity
Anderson has won more of slopestyle’s big events than any woman in history, and her gold medal capped an American sweep of the inaugural Olympic slopestyle events.
“It’s a great feeling because you can just float,”
Bobsledder who punched his way out of his hotel room, now stuck in elevator.
cites: NY Times.com
I love this because it is about something so current but also it gave a little bit of history behind this year’s Olympics. I love the flow of this and how it starts off with sort of a hidden history that I had no idea about then flows right in to information about the games and athletes themselves. Also the way the text is laid out going from underline, to non-underline, then from big to small is very appealing to the eye as well and makes me want to read more about it. Knowing Andrea got all the information for this off of the NY times really blows my mind because who would thought that one source would have all this different information about the same topic!
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ReplyDeleteI like this poem I found the topic of the olympics was very interesting. Your titles caught my attention and it was entertaining. I liked how you talked about all sorts of events during the olympics it gives the reader a good overview. I also liked you punctuation and quotations.
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