The Frozen Games II

The Frozen Games II presents ice and indoor sports that are not featured in the Winter Olympic Games. Ice sports with non-Olympic events include Bobsledding, Figure Skating, Luge, Short-Track Speed Skating, Skeleton, and Speed Skating. Ice sports that have never made it into the Winter Olympics include Bandy, Broomball, Ice Art, Ice Boating, Ice Cross Downhill, Ice Fishing, Ice Swimming, Ice Track Motorcycling, Ringette, and Rinkball. Indoor sports have been shunned by the Winter Olympics, but have been integrated into various other Games. Aikido, Archery Indoors, Arm Wrestling, Athletics Indoors, Chess, Contract Bridge, Cycling Indoors (Artistic Cycling and Cycle-Ball), Floor Hockey, Futsal, Kurash, Netball, Pencak Silat, Roller Derby, Scrabble, Tchoukball, Teqball, Tug-of-War Indoors, and Vovinam would all be on the Frozen Games II program. A brief history and description of each sport is provided, along with the performances of the leading nations in each. Times and records are provided in sports where such information is applicable. The top athlete(s) in each sport and event’s history is identified, and biographical information is presented, if available.

Author Biography

Wayne Cottrell has written and published cycling guidebooks, a series of books ranking recordings and compositions, each entitled “Charting the Music,” and an engineering textbook entitled “Engineering: Facts, Fields, Foundations, & Fundamentals.” His passions for engineering, music and sports are fulfilled, in part, by doing research and writing about them. The merging of sports and writing has produced a new trio of books: “The Coubertin Games,” “The Frozen Games,” and “The Frozen Games II!”