The Frozen Games II

The Frozen Games II

Wayne Cottrell

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2025
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Biografía: deporte
ISBN:
9781257838530
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The Frozen Games II presents ice and indoor sports that are not featured in the Winter Olympic Games. Ice sports with non-Olympic events include Bobsledding, Figure Skating, Luge, Short-Track Speed Skating, Skeleton, and Speed Skating. Ice sports that have never made it into the Winter Olympics include Bandy, Broomball, Ice Art, Ice Boating, Ice Cross Downhill, Ice Fishing, Ice Swimming, Ice Track Motorcycling, Ringette, and Rinkball. Indoor sports have been shunned by the Winter Olympics, but have been integrated into various other Games. Aikido, Archery Indoors, Arm Wrestling, Athletics Indoors, Chess, Contract Bridge, Cycling Indoors (Artistic Cycling and Cycle-Ball), Floor Hockey, Futsal, Kurash, Netball, Pencak Silat, Roller Derby, Scrabble, Tchoukball, Teqball, Tug-of-War Indoors, and Vovinam would all be on the Frozen Games II program. A brief history and description of each sport is provided, along with the performances of the leading nations in each. Times and records are provided in sports where such information is applicable. The top athlete(s) in each sport and event’s history is identified, and biographical information is presented, if available.

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