Winter Olympics XX

The games in Torino are now history - on to Vancouver! For some wrap-ups, visit the BBC News site and WaPo. The United States completed the games with 25 medals: nine gold, nine silver, and seven bronze. Germany was the most decorated country with 29 medals. The host country of Italy had eleven medals, five gold and six bronze.

Many of the medal-winning U.S. Olympians have their own websites:

• Shaun White, aka the Flying Tomato - gold in halfpipe
• Joey Cheek - gold in speed skating 500M, silver in speed skating 1000M
• Ted Ligety - gold in alpine skiing combined
• Toby Dawson - bronze in mogul skiing
• Seth Wescott - gold in men's snowboard cross
• Apolo Anton Ohno - gold in short track 500M, bronze in short track 1000M, bronze in short track 5000M relay
• Shani Davis - gold in speed skating 1000M, silver in speed skating 1500M
• Tanith Belbith & Ben Agosto - silver in ice dancing
• Chad Hedrick - gold in speed skating 5000M, silver in speed skating 10000M, bronze in speed skating 1500M
• Julia Mancuso - gold in alpine skiing giant slalom

The U.S. had nine less medals than it did four years ago at the Salt Lake City (2002) games, but had twelve more medals than it did eight years ago at the Nagano (1998) games and twelve years ago at the Lillehammer (1994) games.

UPDATE: Tomato - congrats on making the cover of Rolling Stone (does anyone really read it anymore?), but you should have left your shirt on.