71 Days

Move over all you baseball and football fantasy league players, there's a new fantasy sport in town. Figure Skating! US Figure Skating has a fantasy skating league on their website, but SkateBuzz.com, part of Skate Canada, seems to have one-upped them, by offering prizes such as cookware and skin care products -- they know their (female) audience. And get this, the pot they're giving away has a skating image on it! The rules are similar to that of other fantasy leagues. Choose the winners of each event beforehand, and get points for how accurate the choices are. Skate Canada (Canada's governing skating body) in particular has been trying to close the gap in the way the general public feels about skating vs. other sports. I guess a fantasy challenge is a step in the right direction.

Seventy-one of Finland's 151 medals have come in cross-country skiing. That's almost 50%, from one sport!

A year before the Olympics, 71 Canadian athletes signed a petition asking VANOC to make the 2010 Olympics carbon neutral. 25 Olympic sponsors are currently helping make this a reality.

71 million U.S. postal stamps were created to commemorate the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.