61 Days

Big news: 2006 Olympic figure skating champion Evgeni Plushenko is injured. Apparently, he's been attempting too many quad-quad and triple axel-quad combination jumps, which have never been landed in competition before. Check out this video of a Plushenko attempting a combination triple axel, quadruple toe loop. I really hope this injury isn't too much of a set back for him, because he is pretty much the front runner to win the upcoming 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, even though he has only competed once (this fall where he won by a landslide) since the last Olympics four years ago. If he could land something like that at the Olympics, it would be absolutely spectacular.

The Olympic Charter is the set of rules that the International Olympic Committee uses to govern each Olympic Games. It is made up of 5 chapters which are broken out into 61 articles. It creates a general outline of who's in charge, the responsibilities of each governing body and discusses the overall values of the Olympics.

Wayne Gretzky, considered the greatest hockey player of all time holds 61 records: 40 regular season records, 15 playoff season records and 6 all star records. He played for the Canadian hockey team in Nagano, Japan in 1998, where Canada failed to win a medal. As the Executive Director of the Canadian hockey team in 2002, Canada won it's first gold medal in hockey in fifty years. Gretzky returned as Executive Director in 2006, but Canada could not repeat and did not medal in Turino. Gretzky helped Vancouver win it's bid for the 2010 Olympics by serving as an ambassador. He will not be managing the 2010 Canadian team, but will be involved to some extent. Some have speculated that Gretzky will light the torch at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics, an honor usually given to a champion athlete of the host country.