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Winter is a collective term for all types of sports that are on ice or snow. So skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, biathlon, skating, bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey ga and so on. Skiing is ride on snow or a kunstskibaan using one or more "planks", skis, which at the feet (shoes) are confirmed *. That sounds more complicated than it is. Actually it's just the two battens down a mountainside. Snowboarding is a sport where you stand on a board with vastgemaakte shoes descends on a snowy mountainside or piste. The snowboarding was invented by a surfer, who thought you with a different kind of board like a wave of the mountain had to be. Actually there is only since the 70s. And you should see it now: it is hugely popular. Cross-country skiing is a sort of glide and anticipate slats. Or put it another way, skating on cross country skis. These are longer and thinner than skis used in skiing. In addition to the skis do you need sticks to you to continue. There are two different ways to cross-country skiing. You have the classic style, where you essentially marketing with the skis, supported by the poles. You 'runs' than with the skis. The "free style" similar to the schaatstechniek; you get sideways with, or sometimes without, poles. Cross-country skiing you can do on a trail, which is called a track. In the classical technique that two tracks. For the free style ga you have made a smooth trail. Biatlon is actually a kind of cross, which you must geweerschieten on a goal. At certain points on the trail the athlete must stop and shoot a goal. Do you target, that means you lose time, because usually there is an additional circle walked / geskate again for your mag.
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The Republic of Macedonia is situated in the Balkans. Macedonia borders with Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece and is completely surrounded by land. The Republic of Macedonia was formed on September 8, 1991 from former Yugoslavia. Skopje is the capital. The city is already 2500 years old. At that time it has been part of the Byzantine, Roman, Ottoman and Yugoslav empire. Sightseeing in Skopje: the stone bridge over the Vardar river, the old town (Stara Carsia) from the Ottoman period, the bazar and hamam, the Fort Kale (with splendid views over the city), the old train station where the clock stopped on 5.17 by the earthquake of 1963 and the museum National Art Gallery. Near Skopje is the 12th century Panteleimon Monastery in Nerezi of 1164, which is equipped with frescoes. Sightseeing outside the capital are: the monastery St. Andreas on the edge of the lake Matka, the city of Ohrid which a large number of Byzantine monuments on the World Heritage List of UNESCO, the monastery St. Naum, Struga, Bitola, Prilep (with the Monastery of the Archangel Michael). The landscape of Macedonia has many mountain forests with a lot of beeches, oaks and pines. In the southwest are two large underground lakes that are interlinked: the Prespa lake and Lake Ohrid. The brown bear is one of the eight protected species that live in Macedonia.
