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Curling
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Figure skating
Figure skating sources lie far back in the past, and originate in a bronze age (the end of 4th — the beginning of 1st millenium BC), finds of archeologists testify to it — the bone fads executed from phalanxes of extremities of large animals. Similar finds meet in many countries of Europe, and most ancient "fads" have been found out on the bank of Southern Bug near to Odessa -
Sannyj sports
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Bobsled
Though driving on sledge on snow or ice was popular in many northern countries, driving from mountains - rather modern sports. It occurs from two crestas (skeletal sledge) applied together with board and the keeping mechanism, former attached to front cresta. The beginnings of Bobsled were modest, it has begun in Moritz, Switzerland. In this city there was a resort where English visitors which were late for the winter have started to adapt sledge of delivery for entertainments and have started t -
Short-track
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Mountain skiing
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Biathlon
For the first time competitions on movement on skis with shooting have taken place in 1767.г. In Norway. game consisted in that that skiers, during descent from a slope of an average steepness should get from a gun to a definite purpose on distance of 40-50 steps. Despite so early origin, biathlon hasn't received a wide circulation in other countries. Its development in a modern kind has begun only in the beginning of XX century. -
Snowboarding
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Jumps from a springboard
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Freestyle
