This isn't really Olympics related, but it's cool. Liquid Image Co. has created a pair of ski goggles with a built in video camera at the top so that you can take videos of yourself skiing. LED lights inside the goggles alert the skier to the mode of the camera. The goggles can take still images as well and will be available in the summer of 2010 for about $149.
Whistler Mountain, home of the skiing and snowboarding events at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, boasts 38 lifts: 18 chair lifts, 16 surface lifts and 4 gondolas.
Canadian athletes have won a total of 38 gold Winter Olympic medals. (8 in ice hockey, 6 in speed skating, 5 in short-track speed skating, 4 in alpine skiing, 3 in figure skating, 2 in freestyle skiing, bobsled, cross country skiing, biathlon, and curling and 1 each in snowboarding and skeleton.) Canada is in seventh place in the overall medal count, but ninth in the gold medal count. The host country is hoping to improve those numbers by having a great showing on their own turf in Vancouver in February.
Every Olympic host creates pictograms which represent the sports included in those Games. Here are the 38 pictograms for the 2012 Summer Games in London. I'm not sure these images are any less deserving of a "wooden spoon" than the 2012 Olympic logo is. (See 83 Days.)
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Yehuda and Ezra could've used those googles on their trip
ReplyDeleteSara, your blog is so fun. I love the format of having lots of tidbits each day as you count down :) I came across you while searching for US Speedskating, as I'm helping with their social media.
ReplyDeleteIf you're interested in keeping up with the team, and The Colbert Nation's sponsorship, please check out the Facebook page. Hopefully you can incorporate some of the content into your countdown!
Looking forward to keeping up with your blog for the next 37 days :)
Hi Libby, Glad you like the site. I am definitely a fan of speed skating and have already written about it on Days 45, 62, 67, 75, 77 (about Joey Cheek) and 85 (Apolo Ohno) and specifically about Colbert Nation on Days 63, 65 and 93. Feel free to check it out and post my blog on the US Speedskating Facebook page as well! Watch out for more speed skating stats in the next few days :)
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