42 Days

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan first and second place finish made them the first female figure skaters from one country to do that since 1956. Forty-two years earlier at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina D'ampezzo, another set of American women won the gold and silver medals: Tenley Albright and Carol Heiss. As an aside, Lipinski who was 15 at the time is the youngest Olympic figure skating champion in history.

Australia has competed in every Winter Olympics since 1952. Previous to that, they had only competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics. In Turino, Italy in 2006, with 42 athletes representing Australia, they won two medals, the most medals they have ever won in one Winter Olympic Games. (They won two medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics as well.)

Whistler Mountain, home of the ski and snowboard events at the 2010 Winter Olympics, was developed into a resort city with the intention of hosting the 1968 Winter Olympics. In 1968, Grenoble, France won the bid to host the Winter Olympics, but forty-two years later, they have finally received the chance to host the Olympics.