California Athletes To Watch At The Olympics This Week 토토사이트 검증
Regardless of whether you haven't been intently following the Winter Olympics, you might have known about Kaillie Humphries, when an Olympic star for Canada, winning a sled gold decoration for the United States on Monday after a hostile split from her old group.
Or on the other hand maybe you watched a clasp of the snowboarder Chloe Kim handling a distantly high score in the halfpipe. Or on the other hand, my undisputed top choice, Nathan Chen conveying a hypnotizing free skate execution that acquired him his first gold decoration.
These are probably the greatest stars of the Beijing Games, and furthermore (as you might have as of now suspected) competitors with solid California associations. Kim is from Torrance, Humphries lives in Carlsbad and Chen trains in Irvine.
The Golden State is genuinely known for overwhelming the Summer Olympics, yet it turns out we've likewise got a lock on many winter sports. Truth be told, California is the main U.S. Express that has facilitated both the Winter and Summer Games.
What's more of the 220-something competitors that the United States shipped off China this year, 34 were either brought into the world in or believe their old neighborhood to be in California, as indicated by the group's list. That is a bigger unforeseen than some other state's - Colorado is next with 29 competitors - and more than would be normal in view of California's populace size alone.
Seven of the 17 competitors contending in Alpine skiing this year are from the Golden State, to a great extent hailing from the Lake Tahoe region (where there are a lot of spots to hit the inclines and where the 1960 Winter Olympics were held). Figure skating has likewise become intensely Californian (and, not unexpectedly, Asian American), and same with snowboarding.
As of early Tuesday morning, the United States had acquired 17 decorations, five of which Californian competitors could make a case for. Yet, the Games don't end until this end of the week, so there are still a lot of occasions in which Californians can sparkle.
Here is a once-over of a portion of the forthcoming rivalries. All times, obviously, are Pacific: