46 Days

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, the U.S. ski team will have the upper hand in at least one aspect - the food! For parts of the World Cup circuit and during the Olympics, the team will have home cooked meals prepared in a fully equipped trailer by team nutritionist and chef, Adam Korzun. Many skiers, including Bode Miller, have frequently complained about the food they receive on the road. Furthermore, even if the food is good, it's still not necessarily the right balance of nutrition athletes require right before a race. Korzun will see to it that the skiers are provided with the proper amount of carbs and protein racers are accustomed to at home.

Vonetta Flowers is the first African American to win a gold medal in a winter Olympic Games. She did that in 2002, in Salt Lake City in bobsled. Flowers started out in track and field events. When she failed to qualify for the 1996 or 2000 Summer Olympics, she switched to bobsled. She and her teammate, Jill Bakken, became the first Americans to win a medal in bobsled for the men or women in 46 years. She came in sixth in 2006 in Turino and will be competing in Vancouver as well. Good luck to Vonetta!

Canadian hockey player, Martin Brodeur won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City 46 years after his father, Denis Brodeur won the bronze medal in hockey for Canada in 1956.

Munich, Germany is planning to bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which will take place 46 years after the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, remembered mostly for the massacre of the Israeli team by Palestinian terrorists. If their bid is successful, Munich will be the first city to host both a summer and winter Olympics games.