American freestyle skier Jeremy Bloom, the 2004-05 World Cup moguls champion, has announced his retirement from the sport.
The organizers of the Vancouver Olympics are promising to balance the budget for the games, presenting a brighter financial outlook than previous estimates.
59: Number of nations that have competed at the Winter Olympics without winning a medal.
2: Number of times Canada has hosted an Olympics prior to 2010 (1976 Summer Games in Montreal; 1988 Winter Games in Calgary).
0: Number of gold medals won by Canada in Montreal and Calgary, the two Olympic Games they have hosted prior to Vancouver.
280: Number of total medals won by the most prolific Winter Olympic nation, Norway.
86: Number of medal events on the 2010 Olympic Program, an increase of two (men's and women's ski cross) from the 2006 Torino Games.
It's at Wolfgang Schaedler's small workshop in the village of Triesenberg where the team's sleds are created.
In the most easily identifiable Olympic terms, ski cross is the Alpine skier's answer to snowboard cross.
“Bobsledding is ninety percent work and two percent bobsledding and maybe eight percent fun. Either way, it is a lot of work.”
