Olympics – Pisaries Creator

Journal Entry Type #185: It Only Happens Every Four Years

07/28/2024

Olympics

news, Olympics, paris, paris, Sports, summer-olympics

Besides the U.S. Presidential election and what many U.S. citizens mostly referred to themselves as Americans, we enjoy watching the different sports during the Summer Olympics. I’m no exception and the sports I most watch is swimming, diving, gymnastics, and track and field. You’ll catch me watching fencing, table tennis, cycling, basketball, equestrian, rowing, and
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More You Know: Swimming and Track/Field Olympic Records

08/07/2021

More You Know, Olympics

There were a few Olympic records set at Tokyo. The two most exciting races to watch when it comes to tight races, for me, is track and field and swimming. It is in these sports where tenths of a second can mean the difference between gold or silver or bronze. The same happens in track
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2020/2021 Tokyo Olympic Games (almost done, no redo)

08/07/2021

Olympics

I was going to do three blogs to the Tokyo Games. It seems since the closing ceremony is tomorrow that I will only be doing one more blog. I haven’t been watching as much Olympic competitions as I should. After Simone Biles dropped out of the team competition, all-around, and most of the individual competitions
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2020 Tokyo Olympics (actually, 2021 but who’s counting?!)

07/24/2021

Olympics

I was looking forward to writing all about the Tokyo Olympics after the 2018 Olympics. Then, COVID appeared and never left. This is going to be known as the freak Olympics of the 21st century. The fact it was postponed for a year and the verdict is still up for debate if the Olympics should’ve
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FYI: Looking Back at Past Olympics

04/28/2020

FYI, History, Olympics

The Olympic Games With the Tokyo Games postponed to 2021, I decided to look up past Olympics Games information. The games have been postponed five other times, which were due to the World Wars in 1916, 1940 twice, and 1944 twice. The country that hosted the most games is the United States and the continent
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Olympic Figure Skating from 1992-2018

12/14/2018

Olympics

I’ve been on a major streak of watching past Olympic ice skating performances. It made me realize how the skating world has changed. We now have skaters attempting and accomplishing quads and jumps with one or both arms above their heads. The lift combinations of pairs skaters have gotten bigger and more powerful. The choreography
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