Wednesday, February 12, 2014

THE OLYMPICS, THE WINTER GAMES (AND THE BUZZARDS COMPETITION PHOTO BLOG)

Hi Everybody!!
In Celebration of the Olympics and Winter Games for Humans, the Buzzards have announced their very own Buzzard Olympics! There will be a High Sky Diving Event (beyond where humans have been). Also slated: a Tree Camouflage Event (sitting in the shadows like a dead branch). The most exciting will be: a Landing on TreeTop Competition. Finally, a soaring team event featuring the Buzzards against the Human Jets!!!!
All in fun and the great competitive spirit!
Olympic Info found below along with the Buzzard Competition Tryouts! Enjoy!

Link to photostudy in G+ Albums:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/117645114459863049265/albums/5979190749222353521

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games

Olympic Games

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques^[1]) are the leading international sporting event featuring summer and winter sports competitions wherein thousands of athletes variously compete. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating.^[2] The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart. Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894. The IOC is the governing body of the Olympic Movement, with the Olympic Charter defining its structure and authority.

Winter Games

Main article: Winter Olympic Games

An ice hockey game during the 1928 Winter Olympics at St. Moritz.

The Winter Olympics was created to feature snow and ice sports that were logistically impossible to hold during the Summer Games. Figure skating (in 1908 and 1920) and ice hockey (in 1920) were featured as Olympic events at the Summer Olympics. The IOC desired to expand this list of sports to encompass other winter activities. At the 1921 Olympic Congress, in Lausanne, it was decided to hold a winter version of the Olympic Games. A winter sports week (it was actually 11 days) was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, in connection with the Paris Games held three months later; this event became the first Winter Olympic Games.^[43] Although the same country was originally intended to host both the Winter and Summer Games in a given year, this idea was quickly abandoned. The IOC mandated that the Winter Games be celebrated every four years on the same year as their summer counterpart.^[44] This tradition was upheld until the 1992 Games in Albertville, France; after that, beginning with the 1994 Games, the Winter Olympics were held every four years, two years after each Summer Olympics.