89 Days

Lake Placid has been as much fun as I knew it would be. With Skate America taking place here, you can't really go too far without running into another skater. Even my sister stalked some British skaters into a book store on Main street. (We later saw them wandering around the skating rink, so we took a picture with them more to commemorate my sister's first skater-stalking experience than anything else.) Congrats to Evan Lysacek (gold) and Ryan Bradley (bronze) on a job well done. Shout out to Scott Hamilton for taking pictures and signing autographs with fans even though he was just on a bathroom break from his commentating duties. And props to me for being called the most knowledgeable figure skating fan by the woman sitting in front of me.

According to the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), as of 2005, 89% of NSAA member ski areas have freestyle terrain, which include terrain parks, halfpipes, superpipes, etc. I think the 2002 Winter Olympics had a major affect on this, since the US swept the medals in men's snowboard halfpipe and won the gold in women's halfpipe as well.
http://www.nsaa.org/nsaa/press/2005/terrainparksafety.org.asp

Almost $89 million in federal funds was used to create and improve access roads and highways to Olympic venues in Salt Lake City, UT for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/janfeb02/olympics.htm

A total of 89 medals were won by Germany during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, under Hitler and the Nazi regime. American Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in track and field events there too.
http://www.bibliobuffet.com/content/view/894/195/