Everybody’s Talking About… #WinterOlympics

Hi everyone! I’m Charlene from BBC Learning English.

Today is day seven of the winter Olympics

in South Korea and we’ve already seen some

spectacular performances in snowboarding,

ice-skating and lots of other fantastic winter sports.

With lots more sporting action to come,

everybody’s talking about it,

and I’m asking three questions to find out the actual

words people are saying. Question one.

How are you enjoying the Winter Olympics?

I’m enjoying them very much indeed – they’re very

interesting, and I really, really, really am enjoying it.

Yes – I’ve not seen too much of it, but what I have seen

has been pretty spectacular.

I mean I haven’t really been keeping up with the Winter

Olympics this year but I do think it’s good

for in terms of sportsmanship and

political impacts this year especially.

What’s been the most stand-out moment for you so far?

I would have to say it was the opening ceremony,

you know, when you kind of see all the countries

kind of like marching together … there’s no conflict,

it’s like everyone’s just trying to get along together.

Oh it’s the amazing jumps that the skiers make,

when they’ve skied very fast up or down

one of their slopes, then they jump off the top,

and you think they’re going up to heaven actually.

Do you think the Winter Olympics has an impact

beyond sport?

I don’t know – maybe it’s becoming kind of …

it’s weakening as an interest

and the media should push more and more to, to

you know, to awake the interest in the broader,

broader audience. That’s what I think.

With what they’ve done to the Russian athletes

as well, I think they’ve made it a bit

too political and they’ve taken the sport out of it,

in my opinion.

That’s a difficult one; I really don’t know

… I just want Britain to win, always!

So there you go: Everybody’s talking about

Winter Olympics and now you can too!

There’s a recap coming up in just a second –

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