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Dear readers, Thank you for the wonderful feedback about my first post about Winter Olympics glossaries ! I am so happy you found it useful! However, in that article I covered only ice sports, so today we are going to speak about skiing, snowboarding, and nordic events. First of all, I'd like to remind you about Sochi 2014 general glossary (English-Russian) . You can find a lot of useful terms there. And if you need more extensive glossaries about specific sports, here are the best resources I could find for you.

Olympics is always a great time for me. I don't care about political issues, or doping scandals, or anything else. I just love watching great athletes compete. Many of them have to go through so different serious obstacles to even take part in the Games! Being a linguist, I can't help googling some terms I hear on TV just to make sure I get them right etc. So this week I decided to make up a list of useful links to resources and glossaries about winter Olympic sports . All winter Olympic sports can be divided into three groups:  1. Ice sports 2. Alpine, skiing and snowboarding 3. Nordic events Ice sports include ice hockey, figure skating, bobsled, skeleton, short track speed skating, curling, and luge. The second category includes alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and snowboarding. Nordic events include biathlon, cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined (ski jumping and cross-country skiing) Today I am going to share useful glossaries and articles o...