88 Days

My trip to Lake Placid and Skate America has come to end, but what a wonderful trip it was. We spent the morning at practice (I even made it to the 8:45 am practice session...on a Sunday!), getting the inside scoop by listening in on conversations between the skaters and their coaches. It was also fun to see the skaters who had already finished competing (their practice sessions were for the exhibition) let loose a little and joke around on the ice. Congrats to American Rachael Flatt for beating the favorite, Korean Yu-Na Kim in the Ladies long program, and coming in second over-all. Congrats to Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto for winning in Ice Dance. And major mazal tovs all around to the Israeli Ice Dance team, Alexandra and Roman Zaretski, for winning their first international medal, the bronze.

Oh an by the way, those women ski jumpers will not be competing in the 2010 Olympics. Maybe instead of suing everyone in sight, they should focus on building their sport so that it might actually be a competitive event for the 2014 Olympics in Russia.

Top speed that can be reached in the bobsled is 88 miles per hour
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/olympics/2006/02/10/oly.guide/

88 symbolizes good fortune in Asian culture, which is why the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China began at 8 pm on 08/08/08.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2008-07/08/content_6827827_12.htm