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Perpetual dabbler. Baking, cross-stitching, music, video games, winter sports. Yearly supporter of Desert Bus for Hope. My YouTube show “Bread After Dark” https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCEgOfUzCzzRd2PscjMKOnBg

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Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 19d

This is framed and heading off to @desertbus.org for this year's #db2025 run! I am hoping that fans can celebrate a beloved Sega mascot's 30th anniversary, as is tradition!

A completed and framed cross stitch of the box art for Ristar for the Sega Genesis which is headed off to the 2025 Desert Bus for Hope marathon!

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Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 11h

Winter Games Fact #259: Let's move on to 2014 and the Sochi, Russia Winter Olympics. These games were the most expensive in Olympic history. Not Winter Olympic history, mind you. All Olympics. The price tag, expected to be $12 billion, soared to a jaw dropped $51 billion in total.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 1d

Winter Games Fact #258: This isn't a hidden fact, but it's a neat one: At the 2010 Olympics, Latvian speed skater Haralds Silovs became the first skater to compete in both long-track and short-track speed skating in the same Olympics...and he went a step further by competing in both in the same day!

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 2d

Winter Games Fact #257: An Olympic Record gets you...Bronze? An example happened in 2010 in the Men's Team Pursuit speed skating. Because the event is contested bracket-style, the Dutch team lost a semifinal to the USA but proceeded to set an Olympic record while winning the bronze medal match.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 2d

Winter Games Fact #256: The USA was the clear star of Alpine Skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics, with 8 medals won across the 10 alpine events. The US, in fact, became just the fourth nation to win 8 alpine medals in a single Olympic games. In 2010, no other country was close-4 medals was next best.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 4d

Winter Games Fact #255: At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Nicolien Sauerbreij won gold in the Parallel Giant Slalom Snowboarding race. That's noteworthy because she's Dutch. The Netherlands has won 147 Winter Olympic medals, and 146 have been on ice, with Sauerbreij being their only snow sport medalist.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 5d

Winter Games Fact #254: The South Korean team had a great performance at the 2010 Winter Olympics, finishing 5th in gold medals and 7th in overall medals, with more golds than when hosting in 2018. All six golds were won on ice- 2 in short track, 3 in speed skating, and Kim Yuna in figure skating.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 6d

Winter Games Fact #253: One of the many US triumphs of the 2010 Winter Olympics was the Nordic Combined team. They medaled in all three events (and twice in the large hill), being the best team with 4 total medals. The US had never won nordic combined medals before 2010...and they haven't since.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 7d

Winter Games Fact #252: North America thrived at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The USA finished with the most medals for only the 2nd time, while Canada won the most golds for the first time ever. Canada's 14 golds actually represented more than they won from every Winter Olympics 1924-1988 COMBINED.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 8d

Winter Games Fact #251: On to Vancouver 2010! The 2010 torch relay went for 106 days, and took 28,000 miles (45,000 km). It was the longest torch relay within one country in the history of the Olympic Games.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 9d

Winter Games Fact #250: Swiss Snowboarder Philipp Schoch in 2006 became the first snowboarder to win 2 Olympic Golds when he defended his title in the Parallel Giant Slalom. What's even more fun about that is that he defeated his brother, Simon, in the gold medal matchup!

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 11d

Winter Games Fact #249: Jamaica has no Winter Olympic medals, but a Jamaican has one. How? Lascelles Brown, a bobsleigh brakeman, competed in 2002 for Jamaica. He became a Canadian citizen, and at Torino 2006, he won silver while part of Team Canada, becoming the first Jamaican-born winter medalist.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 11d

Winter Games Fact #248: Finland had a...unique games in 2006. They won their only (all-time) medal in Alpine Skiing, and their only in Curling. They also medaled in ski jumping (hasn't happened since), freestyle skiing (hasn't happened since), and Nordic Combined (hasn't happened since). Shrug?

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 12d

Winter Games Fact #247: Winning 3 medals in a single games in a sport with 4 events is a difficult task. And yet...5 short track speed skaters did it during the 2006 Winter Olympics (3 from S. Korea, 1 from USA, and 1 from China). South Korea's Ahn Hyun-Soo actually won 4, three of which were gold.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 13d

Winter Games Fact #246: The US took bronze in the 2006 Olympic women's hockey tournament, which actually represents their WORST ever result since women's hockey started in 1998. The Americans were upset by Sweden in the semis, and it's still the only non-USA vs. Canada final to this day.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 14d

Winter Games Fact #245: Final day events of the Winter Olympics have medals presented at the closing ceremonies, and Torino 2006 had a notable one when Italian xc-skier Georgio Di Centa won gold in the 50km race and had the medal presented by his sister Manuela (also a prior xc-ski gold medalist)

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 14d

I’m sorry, what???

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 15d

Winter Games Fact #244: The 2006 Winter Olympics were topsy-turvy for Nordic nations. Norway (2 golds) had one of its' worst ever results, as did Finland (0 golds). However, Sweden won 7 golds (their most at that time), and Estonia won 3 golds (still their all-time best).

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 16d

Winter Games Fact #243: On to 2006. For the first time since 1988, the Winter Games didn’t have a new sport or discipline…but there were 8 new medal events added.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 17d

Winter Games Fact #242: In the 2002 Ski Jumping events, Switzerland's Simon Ammann won double golds, while Poland's Adam Malysz won a pair of medals. This would happen again in the future....but not in 2006. Neither individual would medal that year, but the basic repeat happened instead in 2010.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 18d

Winter Games Fact #241: Canadian Beckie Scott technically won all three medals in the 2002 Olympics xc-ski pursuit. How? Originally, she won bronze, but moved up to silver 18 months later after a DQ due to a banned substance. A second DQ two months later moved Scott up to gold medal position.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 19d

This is framed and heading off to @desertbus.org for this year's #db2025 run! I am hoping that fans can celebrate a beloved Sega mascot's 30th anniversary, as is tradition!

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Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 19d

Winter Games Fact #240: The 2002 Winter Olympics also featured a star turn from the "King of Biathlon", Norway's Ole Einar Bjorndalen. He won gold in all four biathlon events, the first time that had been done. It wasn't his first gold, nor his last- he ended up w/ 8 (14 total medals) in his career

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 20d

Winter Games Fact #239: The 2002 Winter Olympics were the first where 3 Nordic Combined events were held. Finland’s Samppa Lajunen immediately took advantage, winning both individual events and the team gold. To this day, Lajunen is the only athlete with 3 golds in Nordic Combined at one Olympics.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 21d

Winter Games Fact #238: Calling what Janica Kostelić achieved at the 2002 Winter Olympics "historic" feels like an understatement. She became the first alpine skier to win four medals at a single Olympics, and three were gold. Furthermore, she was the first-ever winter Olympic medalist for Croatia!

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 22d

Winter Games Fact #237: The 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics were notable for Australia's first-ever gold won by Steven Bradbury in short track. Late in his race, all four athletes in front of him crashed, and he emerged from the carnage victorious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAAD...