66 Days

I feel like ranting for a second. At Skate America, my sister came up with a new term for figure skating costumes: Olympic ready, as in, is this what you want to be wearing when you win and are on every front page of every newspaper? For instance, we think ladies front runner, Yu-Na Kim is very Olympic ready. And we would also assume that if Vera Wang is designing your costumes, you would automatically be Olympic ready, i.e. Nancy Kerrigan in 1994 and Michelle Kwan in 2002. Well somehow, Evan Lysacek seems to be managing just the opposite. This season he has had two costumes for his long program designed by Vera Wang, and both just don't seem Olympic ready at all. The first one was sheer in the front and back and the new one has snakes. (And the sleeves need to be shortened.) To steal a line from SNL, really? In my opinion, he is very quickly heading into giraffe-tuxedo land, a la Olympic Champion, Ilia Kulik in 1998. And also, why does Lysacek always wear black? You can visit the photo gallery on his website or just take my word for it - Lysacek has not added color to his repertoire since 2004. For crying out loud, just wear a color already. This is the Olympics, not a funeral! (Please be advised that this rant is only written out of love and concern for Evan. If I wasn't rooting for him to make it to the podium and thus the front page of newspapers everywhere, I wouldn't care if he wore a bathrobe. And I must admit, the giraffe costume grew on me... a little.)

66 countries are members of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), but only seven of those (Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States) have finished in the top three at the IIHF World Championships. Those seven countries have also medaled at every men's ice hockey event in the Olympics since 1920 but six. (And five of those six medals were bronze.) Also, all nine Olympic medals in women's ice hockey have gone to one of those seven countries. (Women's ice hockey did not become an Olympic sport until 1998.)

There are also 66 countries who are members of the International Biathlon Union.

A law was passed in Beijing prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics banning smoking in the city's 66,000 taxis for both drivers and passengers. The law fined drivers $13 to $26 if caught smoking at the wheel.