Mr. Sawyer's Winter Olympics Website

2014 USA Winter Olympic Team

 

The Super Bowl's over, and now the entire world turns its eyes to Sochi and the Winter Olympics. You're curious about them as well, right? They gotta be (hopefully) better than what we saw Sunday night.

One of the fun but challenging aspects to many an Olympic viewer is knowing what to know. Most of these athletes live and train in obscurity until the Olympics come, and then it's a huge spotlight and a whole lot of who-they-are-and-what-they-do that gets tossed from them and onto the viewers/readers. What are the stories leading up to the games? What will be the stories? Some we know; some not even in a clue.

In an effort to make you as well-equipped as possible, I've culled some of the most important happenings as we gear up for the games. Before we list that, let's list the sports involved. There are 15 of them, with 98 events in total. That makes for 294 medals waiting to be handed out. In alphabetical order, and with the number of events in parenthesis, they are:

1. Alpine skiing (10)
2. Biathlon (11)
3. Bobsleigh (3)
4. Cross-country skiing (12)
5. Curling (2)
6. Figure skating (5)
7. Freestyle skiing (10)
8. Ice hockey (2)
9. Luge (4)
10. Nordic combined [biathlon] (3)
11. Short track speed skating (8)
12. Skeleton (2)
13. Ski jumping (4)
14. Snowboarding (10)
15. Speed skating (12)

USA MEDAL COUNT