A few days ago we saw Scott Kneller on Skype, he was in Sochi. Scott Kneller is competing in the Winter Olympics in Sochi doing ski cross. A few weeks before the Olympics he broke the vertebrae in his back so he was very nervous about going to the Olympics. He found out one month before the Olympics that he can go, so Scott is very excited but not planning to win his race just to do well and be happy to be there. That doesn’t mean he’s not training, Scott is waking up at 6 am and does his rehab for his back just before he goes and practices his ski cross and finishes at 6 pm. That’s a long day!

When we were Skyping Scott Kneller he told us about all he was nervous about, what he was excited about, and how it is in Sochi which is in Russia. Scott is very nervous about all the things going on in Sochi because it is just next to a country that’s called Chechnya that has it’s own beliefs, religion and even it’s own language. Bad things have happened in Chechnya, there has been a war over independence and the violence never really stopped. It’s just gotten better than it used to be, and now Chechnya is thinking of bombing the Winter Olympics to get the Russians back for what they did hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

When we skyped Scott Kneller we were all wearing green and yellow to show that we support him at the Winter Games but the other schools that were skyping him to didn’t do that. They took to long to get it all working so we quit early because we had all asked the questions that we wanted to know and now we know a lot more about Scott Kneller! Scott also did mention that his sport, ski cross is on the 20/2/14 so get out there and support Scott in Sochi!