With just one day until the 2010 Winter Olympics, America's star (or the American media's star) Olympian, skier Lindsey Vonn is injured and is unsure of her Olympic plans. As of now, she is still planning to compete in her events, but plans to skip her training sessions. Before this injury, Vonn was expected to go for gold in five different alpine skiing events.
At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, silver medals were awarded to the winners and bronze to the second place athletes.
The U.S. placed first in the medal count once at the Winter Olympics, in 1932 in Lake Placid
The first Olympic Games to be televised was the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where events were shown on large screens around Berlin. The first Games to be televised worldwide was the 1956 Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The first Winter Games to be broadcast in color was in Grenoble, France in 1968.
Vancouver will be the first Winter Olympics where some events are held at sea level.
The music played in all of NBC's promotional 2010 Olympics commercials is the song, One Day by Matisyahu featuring Akon. Listen to it here.
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Yay Sara! I am very proud of your commitment and accomplishment! Go Team USA!
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So when should we expect sarascountdowntosochikrasnodarkrairussia.blogspot.com?
ReplyDeleteso how many icecreams are you now owed? what does the future hold for the blog? also, props :-)
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ReplyDeleteThanks for all the good wishes, but it's not over yet. We still have another two weeks of the Olympics to go!
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