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Here in Vancouver 2010 are coming 2500 athletes, representing 80 countries in 86 events in 15 different sports, with the opening ceremony on February 12 and the games until 28^th

The sports and year that was introduced to the games are:

Alpine Skiing (1936)

Biathlon (1960)

Bobsleigh (1924)

Cross Country Skiing (1924)

Curling (1924 and then in 1998)

Figure Skating (1924)

Free Style Skiing (1992)

Ice Hockey (1920)

Luge (1964)

Nordic Combined (1924)

Skeleton (1948, and since 2002)

Ski Jumping (1924)

Short Track Speed Skating (1992)

Speed Skating (1924)

Snowboarding (1998)

The Brazilian athletes confirmed to come are:

Alpine Skiing:  Maya Harrison and Jhonatan Longui

Cross Country Skiing: Jaqueline Mourao in the Classic10K e Leandro Ribela in the Classic 15K

Snowboarding: Isabel Clark Ribeiro

Good luck guys!

With the Winter Olympic Games coming around, it’s time to start to figure out who are the brazucas that will be in the competition.

Before we get stated, lets try to remind how was the brazilian participation in the games. Its clear that winter sports aren’t our forte, but with the globalization it’s not really hard to find some brazilians living in another foreign country that are engaged to some of these sports.

The Winter Olympic Games officially started in 1924. At that time, its venue was the same as the Summer Olympic Games. Then, both began to have different locations and to be held 2 years after the summer games with each one happening every 4 years.

So far, Brazil has been in the following Winter Games: 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 and we will be here in 2010

Brazilian participation was as follow:

1992 -Albertville, France

7 athletes, 6 men and 1 female, all of them in the Alpine Skiing

1994 – Lillehammer, in Norway

1 man only, in Alpine Skiing

1998 in Nagano, Japan

1 man: Alpine Skiing

2002 in Salt Lake City, in United States

The biggest team with 9 men and 2 women: Alpine Skiing, Cross Country, Bobsled and Luge

2006 in Turim, Italy

7 men and 2 women, in the Bobsled, Alpine Skiing, Cross Country and Snowboard

Just to let you know, so far, we haven’t got any medal, but our participation is becoming more important every time. For now, winning medals is too much for us. To me, only soccer is the sport we should demand a medal in every single tournament participation

Next round, we are going to introduce you to the brazilian athletes coming to Vancouver.

See ya next time