Usually, when talking about winter sports we have in mind all sports having to do with ice and snow.But some sports such as hockey and figure skating, should be considered summer sports.They are played all over the world on artificial ice rinks.It is interesting to participate in speed races, but it is much more interesting to watch speed races.Hockey is played on a rink forty metres long by six players on each of two teams.It is very interesting, fast, and dynamic game.It is played with a puck and long straight sticks with an angle at the bottom. The team that scores the most goals wins.One more exciting kind of winter sports is ski-jumping.
Some years ago football, track athletics, figure skating were the most popular kinds of sport. But now biathlon is one of the most popular kinds of sport. Biathlon development has begun at the beginning of the twentieth century. This kind of sport spreads over new countries every year. About 20 thousand fans come on the stages of the World Cup.
Why did biathlon become the popular sport? There are some reasons. Firstly, biathlon is a fascinating kind of sport: sportsmen ski and shoot in the firing lines. Secondly, biathlonists are the real sportsmen. They don`t seek fame and money as football players. They work forsports interest. Thirdly, there is an enormous competition in biathlon. A great quantity of different countries competes for the leading places.
There are many outstanding sportsmen in our country: Alexandr Tikhonov, Nikolay Kruglov, Sergey.
