The Winter Olympics

                 The Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics have a lot of different sports. One of my favorite is figure skating. Each skater almost dances to the center in swift strokes after skating a couple laps. They get in their position, and then wait for the music to start. Most of the time they do some moves with their body without moving for the first few seconds. Then comes the exciting part. I love watching their dresses fly up around them as they do specific jumps and strokes with their faces extremely relaxed. When the music ends the skater is usually in some sort of position with their eyes closed. Then you hear the reporters commenting or kindly pointing out the flaws in their performance. You see the skater skating of the rink with younger children skating around, gathering the gifts the audience threw on the ice.
    Then it is time for the scores to come out. I can always see the look of excitement and nervousness on the skater's faces as they sit next to their coaches. Then the sores just suddenly pop out and either the competitor cheers to themselves of stays silent, doing nothing  and staying as relaxed as possible, trying not to cry.
    Even if they did horrifingly bad, I think they are are brave enough to get out on the ice and show what they can do.
Are you brave enough?