91 Days

Reporting to you today from Lake Placid, NY, home of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. This weekend's activities include touring the Olympic sites and attending Skate America (minus Sasha Cohen) to watch the likes of Evan Lysacek, Yu-Na Kim and Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto gear up for the Olympics. Crazy as it sounds, this is the first time I am attending a skating competition of this level, so needless to say, I am super excited.


Anyone like contests? Adidas is holding a competition to design a pair of ski goggles. The winning pair will be worn by an Olympic competitor in Vancouver, and $20,000 will be awarded to the designer as well.
http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/show/detail/80?THSessionId=66b07cf8a930e37f08814080fd08f407


And here are our stats for the day:


91% of the athletes who participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics came home without a medal.
http://imaging-radiation-oncology.advanceweb.com/Article/Lessons-from-Olympic-Losers.aspx


An Olympic size basketball court is 91 feet (10 inches) long and 49 feet 2 1/2 inches wide.
http://library.thinkquest.org/14015/GAMES.HTM


This is a bit of a stretch (as if others haven't been) but hear me out. The Shea family is the only U.S. three generation Olympic family. Jack Shea won two gold medals in 1932 in speed skating. Jim Shea, Sr. competed in cross country skiing in 1964 and Jim Shea, Jr. won the gold in Skeleton in 2002. Now, I could tell you that if you add the years of the Olympics up (32+64+2=98) and then subtract the number of gold medals won (98-3=95) and then subtract the number of letters in the name Shea (95-4=91) you get 91. But instead, I'll just say that Jack Shea was planning on attending the '02 Olympics in Salt Lake City to watch his grandson compete, but he was killed by a drunk driver 17 days before the Olympics at the age of 91.
http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-athletes/legendary-athletes/jim-shea_94920BV.html