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Wind In My Face By Bailey I felt the rush. I felt my heart pounding. I was about to compete in my first challenge in the Winter Olympic Games. I was called to to preform my routine in front of the judges. As soon as my ice skates hit the ice ring I was skating on one foot, doing spins and figure 8's. I only got two minutes which was a short period of time. I came to a stop in front of the judges table and bowed. Everyone applauded and I waited for my score. //I probably look like a wreck!!!// This moment would decide wether she would go to to the next round if I won a medal, but if I did not win a Gold,Silver or Bronze medal then I will have to go back to training. “We give her a fifteen out of thirty points because she constantly repeated three tricks this equals a bronze medal. We were considering no medal at all but she did the tricks so well. You have qualified for the next round, altogether you will need to train extremely hard in order to make the next round.” When I returned to the vacant ring that I competed in I was going to training, and here I trained almost 6-8 hours a day and sometimes more. //Finally, at least there's no audience to stare at me and no judges to rate me on my performance.// I slipped my skates on (of course I did take them off, who drives with ice skates on anyway?) laced them with a tad difficulty and stepped into the most extraordinary room of all, the room with the actual ring in it. The room was filled with light that glowed like the brightest star. I was filled with joy and stepped onto an amazingly smooth ice ring and began to circle the middle. Then I glided to one side of the ring and got a fast start and sped like a speed skater (which I will never become so don't try me) across the ring to the other side, I nearly ran into the wall and just before the thought of me being flat on the ice popped into my mind I put my mind into action and stopped just before I crashed. //What is wrong with me?!?!?!// After two hours of sheer speed and tricks I felt as if her heart would burst out of her chest and slide across the ice leaving her body behind. I had only enough time to practice for another couple of minutes before I had to leave so the crew could come and set up the ring for a competition, not mine, I only train here and have competitions at the Olympic ice ring. When I reached my car about five minutes later and was amazed to see that my car was the only one in the lot. It had began to get dark out so as soon as I started my car I hit the clock button and almost screamed. It was 6:30!!!!!!!!!!! And I was supposed to be at the competition ring at 5:30 to work out my routine and get my costume ready. Surely I had already missed my turn. What will they think of me? Will I be disqualified for not attending? Only one or two ways to find out, so I started my car and sped like lightning down many twisting and turning roads and I,just my luck, was stopped at every stoplight and was taking it pretty hard. If the tournament was started and I could see lights and fireworks that was probably a bad thing and a good thing,bad because people had already began to file in to the ring and the backstage people possibly noticed she was absent since 5:00, the time I was supposed to attend for a makeup session and they would've let all the competitors do a practice performance prior to the show.

When I made the last turn I was there I parked the car and turned the keys. With the car off I pushed the door open with all of my force and then rushed to the building and burst through the doors to the backstage area. All of the crew members were peering out of the curtains watching the show. When my footsteps were finally herd they ran up to me and all tried to speak at once. “ Judges, skates, help, confused, and who are you?” came out of their mouths. Woah!! Then one voice rose above all others. “ You have been disqualified from the match!!” And that was all I heard before I saw a world of black and I was out cold.