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Sochi Olympics 2014 - Australian Athletes

NZ Snow Tours sends out a HUGE congratulations to everyone who made the Australian Olympic Team!

Australia has a much larger winter Olympic team for the Games than New Zealand, with a role totaling Sixty. 42 of them are skiers and snowboarders with many already holding world champion titles. They are surely going to put up a good fight in Sochi!

There a couple of stand outs that I must mention before I introduce the rest of the skiers and snowboarders. The first one being snowboarder Torah Bright. Not only is Torah the 2010 Olympic gold medalist for pipe, this year she is competing in 3 snowboarding disciplines, half pipe, snowboarder cross and slopestyle. Awesome!

The second one to note, is skier Greta Small who has qualified and will compete in all five skiing events the Downhill, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Super Combined & Super G. That will make her few weeks at the games a busy one!

Right now onto the rest of the team! Huge congratulations to all you and I have no doubt well deserved!

Snowboarders

Event: Women's Snowboard Half Pipe
Date to Watch: 12th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Torah Bright, Holly Crawford, Hannah Trigger & Steph Magiros

Event: Men's Snowboard Half Pipe
Date to Watch: 11th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Nathan Johnston, Scott James, Kent Callister

Event: Men's Snowboarder Cross
Date to Watch: 17th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Alex Pullin, Jarryd Huge, Cam Bolton

Event: Women's Snowboarder Cross
Date to Watch: 16th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Torah Bright, Belle Brockhoff

Event: Women's Snowboard Slope Style
Date to Watch: 9th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Torah Bright

Event: Men's Snowboard Slope Style
Date to Watch: 8th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Scott James

Event: Women’s Ski Giant Slalom
Date to Watch: 18th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Greta Small, Chrystal Lavinia, Emily Bamford

Event: Women’s Ski Slalom
Date to Watch: 21th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Greta Small, Chrystal Lavinia, Emily Bamford

Event: Men’s Ski Giant Slalom
Date to Watch: 19th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Ross Peraudo, Dominic Demschar

Event: Men’s Ski Slalom
Date to Watch: 22th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Ross Peraudo, Dominic Demschar

Event: Women’s Ski Moguls
Date to Watch: 8th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Britt Cox, Taylah ONeill, Nicole Parks

Event: Men’s Ski Moguls
Date to Watch: 10th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Dale Begg-Smith, Matt Graham, Sam Hall, Brodie Summers

Event: Women’s Ski Cross
Date to Watch: 21th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Katya Crema, Sami Kennedy-Sim, Jenny Owens

Event: Men’s Ski Cross
Date to Watch: 20th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Anton Grimus, Scott Kneller

Event: Men's Ski Slope Style
Date to Watch: 13th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Russ Henshaw

Event: Women's Ski Slope Style
Date to Watch:11 th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Anna Segal

Event: Women's Ski Half Pipe
Date to Watch: 20th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Amy Sheena, Davina Williams

Event: Women's Ski Ariels
Date to Watch: 14th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Lydia Lassila, Laura Peel, Danielle Scott, Samatha Well

Event: Men's Ski Ariels
Date to Watch: 17th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: David Morris

Event: Men's Cross Country Ski
Date to Watch: 8-23th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Phil Bellingham Cullum Watson

Event: Women's Cross Country Ski
Date to Watch: 8 -23th February (Russia Time)
Who to watch from Australia: Esther Bottomley, Aimee Watson

Again congratulations to all the athletes and we look forward to seeing compete!

Previous and Coming up Next in Paula's Olympic Blog Series

• 8th January - History and Introduction
• 15th January - A Little Bit about my Favourite Sports
• 22nd January - Introducing Athletes from New Zealand
• 29th January - Introducing Athletes from Australia
• 19th February - In Sochi at the Olympics what was it really like?
• 24th February - Events wrap up - New Zealand Ski and Snowboard Results
• 4th March - How did Paula end up in Russia at the Olympics in the First Place?

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Posted By: Paula Mitchell, @ Fri, 31st Jan 2014