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No news today. This weekend is Skate Canada, a skating competition which I've dvr-ed and haven't watched yet. I'm pretty adamant about not finding out what happens in a skating event before I watch it. And searching for Olympic news whilst avoiding the most popular Olympic sport is kinda hard.

In a European Olympic qualifying game in Women's hockey last year, Slovakia beat Bulgaria 82-0. Now, I'm no expert in hockey, but don't games usually get like a max of 5 goals or something? 82? Not only 82, but 82 to ZERO. I'm not sure if this is a really good sign for Slovakia in the 2010 Winter Olympics, or just a really bad sign for Bulgaria, but it set a record in an International Ice Hockey Federation-sanctioned event. The Slovakian team average one goal every 44 seconds.
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=3577150

Top speed achieved in the skeleton event is 82 mph. The skeleton event is sort of like the luge, only instead of going down the track feet first, you go down the track head first. Skeleton was first introduced in the Winter Olympics in 1928 and returned in 1948, then took a hiatus until 2002 and 2006. 2010 will be its fifth Olympics.

The Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Center, which will be the home of the curling and paralympic wheelchair curling events cost $82 million to build. And I'm sure everyone will be happy to know that the building is eco-friendly, using rain water to flush toilets.
http://www.krolltravel.com/TravelNews/tn2008110362.html