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Beijing 2022 Bluffer’s Guide: Ice Hockey
What is it?Surely the roughest Winter Olympic sport, ice hockey is not for the faint-hearted. A contact sport played between two teams made up of six players each, the aim is to get the puck into the opposing team’s goal – simple. Each player is equipped with a stick, ice skates and full-body padded protection. The formation…
Beijing 2022 Bluffer’s Guide: Curling
What is it?Stones, brooms, a ‘slider’ and a ‘gripper shoe’ are all the ingredients needed for curling. While it may not have the adrenalin-filled action of other ice and snow events, that certainly doesn’t mean it’s not without excitement. A team sport played on ice, competitors take it in turns to slide stones made of granite…
Beijing 2022 Bluffer’s Guide: Snowboarding
What is it?Snowboarding was officially recognized as an Olympic Sport in 1994, and made its debut in the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, in 1998. In the beginning, there were only four events: the giant slalom and halfpipe for both men and women.It’s introduction was a damp squib; it was broadcast during an awkward time…
Beijing 2022 Bluffer’s Guide: Freestyle Skiing
What is it?Freestyle skiing combines skiing and acrobatics, and is one of the most popular Winter Olympic disciplines. There are a total of 13 events, with the International Olympic Committee adding three new categories in 2018: big air for men and women and a mixed team aerials event.The most popular styles of freestyle skiing are…
Beijing 2022 Bluffer’s Guide: Speed Skating
What is it?The 24th time that speed skating has appeared at the Winter Olympics, there is a total of 14 events this year, including the 500, 1,000, 1,500, 3,000, 5000, 10,000 meters and the mass start. The mass start, which first appeared in the 2018 Winter Games, is the only event where all competitors are on…
Beijing 2022 Bluffer’s Guide: Bobsleigh
What is it?“Sanka, ya dead?” Need I say more? Bobsleigh or bobsled shot to fame in popular culture after the hit film Cool Runnings hit the silver screen in 1993. The film tells the true story of the Jamaica bobsleigh team’s debut in the 1988 Winter Olympics. Jamaica haven’t had a four-man bobsleigh team compete in…
What is it?As if skiing wasn’t already fun enough, imagine skiing but with guns. Surprisingly, randomly adding guns into the mix didn’t come from the United States. The sport began in Norway as a form of military training. Norwegian skiing regiments even hosted competitions where contestants would shoot a target while skiing at top speed. A biathlon…
Beijing 2022 Bluffer’s Guide: Short Track Speed Skating
What is it?As if we need to tell you.Short track speed skating, as we all remember, is the event where the other four skaters are beating the Australian guy. Like, they've left him for dead. The Aussie is out of contention.And then… and then… and then… on the very final corner, the four-person leading pack all crash…
Beijing 2022 Bluffer’s Guide: Skeleton
What is it?The most macho of macho men, Ernest Hemingway, once said “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”Well, he’d clearly overlooked skeleton, a sport that sees participants take a running start and launching themselves down a frozen track lying face down on a glorified baking…