Sochi

Running head: SOCHI SLOPES

Sochi Slopes Are Too Dangerous For Women

Alessandra DiMichele

Public Speaking

Prof, Michaluk

3-17-14

Abstract

This paper will explore three published articles that report on the dangerous Sochi slopes from research done online. These articles are different, some talk about the injuries that happened to the women whom these slopes affected, and others talk about the slopes and how they are constructed. Also how the slopes compared to the slopes of the Winter X Games.

Sochi Slopes Are Too Dangerous For Women

Some point in our lives most people have gone skiing before. Some people do it for fun and others make a sport out of it and take part in different events. Have we ever asked ourselves: “ I wonder if the ski slopes are safe to go down”? Not a lot of people think of that kind of thing when skiing. They only think of having fun, and feeling that rush as you go down the mountain. Some people can handle the speed going down and others cannot. Especially if you are with your friends, you try to go down the bigger slope to show off and impress your friends. Well maybe after falling and getting hurt you will want to think again before you show off for your friends.

While in Sochi this winter for the Olympics things got a bit dangerous. All over the news, you would see or read about people getting injured on the ski slopes. They were getting injured pretty badly. This all happened mostly during the trial runs. Out of all the athletes the ones who were getting injured pretty bad were the women.

According to Taibi, they wrote a headline suggesting the ski slopes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics are too "macho" for women to handle. Huffington Post did a story on the Olympian Sarka Pancochova, who had suffered a pretty hard fall. She smacked her head when she landed and then her body spun like a propeller into the gully between jumps and slid to a stop. Pancochova was back on her feet, where her helmet had cracked nearly in half from...