44 Days

Meet Kenya's only Winter Olympian, Philip Boit. Boit is a cross-country skier who first participated in the Nagano Olympics in 1998, where he placed last. He has slowly climbed from the bottom, placing fourth to last in 2002 in Salt Lake City and sixth to last in 2006 in Turino. Boit hopes to improve in Vancouver, which he announced will be his last Games.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, 44 nations had apparel deals with Nike.

The University of Florida has produced 44 Olympic champions. The most notable is swimmer Dara Torres who won 4 gold medals and 12 medals in total. Her most recent medal was silver and was won in Beijing at the age of 41, making her the oldest U.S. female swimmer to compete in the Olympics.

The Olympics' host countries usually have strong showings at the Olympics they host. Canada's record medal count is forty-four medals which they won at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics in 1984. However, that number comes with an asterisk, since the communist countries boycotted that Olympics and did not compete. Canada didn't do that well at the Calgary Winter Olympics or the Montreal Summer Olympics, but have many medal contenders competing in Vancouver, so stay tuned.