33 Days

Lindsey Vonn has regained the lead in the World Cup standings, even with an injured arm, by winning two downhill races in a row, on Friday and Saturday. She has not lost a downhill race since February 2009. U.S. snowboarders Gretchen Bleiler and Kelly Clark have both earn spots on the Olympic team. Hannah Teter and a few other women will compete for the final spot in two weeks.

Of the 33 total medals won by Korean athletes (both North and South) in Winter Olympics events, 30 have been won in short track speed skating events. Similarly, 20 of China's 33 Winter Olympics medals are from the sport. Korea and China cannot be counted out in short track speed skating, but you can also bet that both China and Korea will be winning medals in figure skating in Vancouver. (Yu-Na Kim for Korea in ladies figure skating and pairs team Shen and Zhao for China, both front runners in their respective events.)

The first snowboard was created in 1965, when an engineer watched his daughter try and stand up on her sled while going downhill. He then took a pair of skis and attached them to create a snowboard for her. 33 years later, in 1998, snowboarding became an Olympic Sport at the Nagano Olympics.