Michael Jordan Former American professional basketball player and active businessman. Born: 02/17/1963

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

Practice makes perfect Mistakes=Practice The more practice the more perfection Perfection=success

Just do it. The way to success.

1. Sochi, where the 2014 Winter Olympics is hosted, is Russia's sunshine destination. A 37-hour train ride from Moscow, it's located in Russia's Deep South, on the Black Sea, and boasts palm trees, pebble beaches and sulfur hot springs.Organizers are also depending on 500 snow guns and 710,000 cubic meters of snow taken from the mountains last winter and kept in storage. 2. Norway has won the most medals (263) at the Winter Games. 3. Sixteen nations competed in the first winter Olympic Games that were held in France in The first winter Olympics was called The International Winter Sports Week that lasted 11 days. 4. The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world. Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the five colors. 5. No country in the Southern Hemisphere has ever hosted a Winter Games. 6. Nobody has won more medals at the Winter Games than cross-country skier Bjorn Dählie of Norway, who has Women did not compete in the Olympics until Only 11 women competed in the first winter Olympic Games.Vonetta Flowers was the first African American to win a Gold Medal in the Winter Olympics in In 1988 the first Jamaican Bobsled team competed in Canada. They had little practice and had to borrow sleds from other countries. Although finishing in a crash they showed power and bravery. 9. The first and only athlete to win winter and summer Olympic Games medals in the same year, 1988, was Christa Luding-Rothenburger. She won in speed skating and cycling.10. The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold. Ever since, hey've been silver with gold plating.

He was born in Austria in He was fond of soccer in his childhood. But at the age of 14 he chose bodybuilding over football for his career. And now we know him as a professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman and politician.

Arnold Scwatzenegger

He was born in New York in He lived in and around crime neighborhood and he had to start fighting. He became an orphan (сирота) when he was 16. Then he was left in care of boxing manager and trainer Cus DAmato. So started his boxing career.

Mike Tyson

He was born in Solnechny, Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Union. Since he frequently suffered from colds, his mother decided he needed exercise and enrolled him in figure skating lessons at age four. After his ice rink in Volgograd closed when he was 11 years old, his mother took him to Saint Petersburg to train under the tutelage of Alexei Mishin. This Olympics he won his second gold and fourth Olympic medal overall.

Evgeni Plushenko

List of Winter Olympic Sports Alpine Skiing – горнолыжный спорт Biathlon- биатлон Bobsleigh - бобслей Cross Country Skiing -лыжные гонки Curling - кёрлинг Figure skating - фигурное катание Freestyle Skiing - фристайл Ice Hockey - хоккей с шайбой Luge - санный спорт Nordic Combined - лыжное двоеборье Short Track Speed Skating - шорт-трек Skeleton -скелетон Ski Jumping - прыжки с трамплина Snowboard – сноуборд Speed skating - конькобежный спорт

The greatest victory is the victory over yourself.

Just do it.

Home task - to learn the new words on the topic winter sports -make crossword puzzle with the words on the topic Sports -tell about your favourite sport

Good luck!