Winter Olympics

Hey fellow adventurers! For those of you don’t know (maybe you’re living under a rock or in a cave?), the Winter Olympics are currently underway! Go America! Sorry, my bias just slipped out. And there’s a lot of things that have made this year’s Olympics exciting: South and North Korea sharing a flag, Russian athletes competing under the Olympic flag rather than the Russian flag, and most importantly, (for this month’s blog) Malaysia is competing for the first time! So, let’s see who’s competing for Malaysia!

First, for those of you who missed the opening ceremony, you can catch the highlights here:

https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/sights-and-sounds-2018-pyeongchang-opening-ceremony?amp

Or if you want to see more, watch the following video:

https://youtu.be/QHyg0KcpDWw

With two athletes, Malaysia is among the group of countries with smallest number of athletes. If you want to see more countries, click here: http://www.businessinsider.com/winter-olympics-smallest-teams-opening-ceremony-2018-2/#greece-4-1. The two athletes competing in this year’s Olympics are: Jeffrey Webb and Julian Yee. Since Malaysia is a tropical country, they are few Malaysian athletes training in winter sports. That said, let’s learn a little about those competing this year.

There isn’t much information on Jeffrey Webb. He was born on October 27th, 1998. He will be competing in the Alpine Skiing event. Here’s the schedule for alpine skiing this year: https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018/results/en/alpine-skiing/daily-schedule.htm.

There is more information on Julian Yee. Yee is a figure skater, born on May 26th, 1997. His mother introduced him and his brothers to ice skating when Yee was four. When in Malaysia, Yee practiced ice skating at the local rinks located in public malls. Though to ensure he had time to practice alone, he would convince ice rink owners to open their rinks early to him. In 2016, he trained in Canada so that he could learn to compete at more of an international level. To learn more, check out his story at NBC: http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/figure-skater-julian-yee-makes-history-malaysias-first-winter-olympian. And here’s the schedule for figure skating this year: https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018/results/en/figure-skating/daily-schedule.htm.

Though the competition Malaysia is best known for is their Grand Prix race. However, last year Malaysia announced they would stop hosting their Grand Prix event due to low audience turn-up. For those curious, these are the highlights from the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix:

Well that’s all for today’s post! Thank you so much for reading my blog, and as always, until our next adventure!

2,743 thoughts on “Winter Olympics”

  1. Outstanding post however I was wondering if you could write a litte more on this subject?
    I’d be very thankful if you could elaborate a little bit further.
    Thank you!

  2. I was recommended this website by my cousin. I’m not
    sure whether this post is written by him as no one else know
    such detailed about my trouble. You’re incredible!
    Thanks!

  3. Howdy would you mind letting me know which webhost you’re working with?
    I’ve loaded your blog in 3 completely different
    browsers and I must say this blog loads a lot quicker then most.
    Can you suggest a good web hosting provider at a reasonable
    price? Kudos, I appreciate it!

  4. An intriguing discussion is definitely worth comment.
    I believe that you should publish more about this subject matter, it might not be a taboo subject but generally folks don’t speak about
    such topics. To the next! Cheers!!

  5. Greetings, I think your web site might be having browser compatibility problems.
    Whenever I look at your blog in Safari, it looks fine
    however, when opening in I.E., it’s got some overlapping issues.
    I simply wanted to give you a quick heads up! Besides that, wonderful website!

  6. Today, I went to the beachfront with my children. I found a sea
    shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.”
    She placed the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear.

    She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is completely off
    topic but I had to tell someone!

  7. Hi! I understand this is somewhat off-topic however I had to ask.
    Does operating a well-established blog like yours require a lot of work?
    I’m brand new to writing a blog however I do write in my diary every day.
    I’d like to start a blog so I can easily share my own experience and views
    online. Please let me know if you have any kind of suggestions or tips for new aspiring blog owners.
    Thankyou!

  8. I am really enjoying the theme/design of
    your weblog. Do you ever run into any web browser
    compatibility issues? A small number of my blog audience have complained about my
    site not working correctly in Explorer but looks
    great in Safari. Do you have any recommendations to help fix this problem?

  9. I do accept as true with all of the ideas
    you have presented for your post. They’re very convincing and will definitely work.
    Still, the posts are too short for novices. May you please lengthen them a bit from subsequent time?
    Thank you for the post.

  10. You are so cool! I do not suppose I’ve truly read
    something like that before. So nice to discover someone
    with some genuine thoughts on this subject. Really..
    many thanks for starting this up. This site is one thing that is required on the web, someone with
    a bit of originality!

  11. Hola! I’ve been reading your web site for a while now and finally got the courage to go
    ahead and give you a shout out from Humble Texas! Just wanted
    to say keep up the excellent work!

  12. Howdy would you mind stating which blog platform you’re working with?
    I’m looking to start my own blog in the near future but I’m having a difficult time
    choosing between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal.

    The reason I ask is because your design and style seems
    different then most blogs and I’m looking
    for something unique. P.S Apologies
    for being off-topic but I had to ask!

  13. Thanks pertaining to discussing the following superb written content on your site. I ran into it on the search engines. I will check back again if you publish extra aricles.

  14. The very next time I read a blog, I hope that it won’t disappoint me just as much as this one. After all, I know it was my choice to read through, nonetheless I actually thought you would have something useful to say. All I hear is a bunch of complaining about something that you could fix if you weren’t too busy searching for attention.

  15. After I initially left a comment I appear to have clicked the -Notify
    me when new comments are added- checkbox and from now on each time a comment is added I receive 4 emails with the
    exact same comment. Perhaps there is a means you can remove me from
    that service? Thank you!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *