When I was watching the opening ceremonies last night, I noticed right away that Argentina has fielded a 'team' of 7 athletes in these winter Olympics! This made me very happy for some reason! So I did a little research on the flag bearer, Cristian Simari Birkner, who is competing in Alpine Skiing. He was born October 4th, 1980. Good luck to Cristian and his countrymen and women!
A pic of the Argentine contingent with Cristian carrying the flag.
Another pic of the Argentine delegation:
And this is an older photo of Cristian:
One of my favourite sports is figure skating, and this is Johnny Weir of the USA:
Evan Lysacek, also of the USA.
This is Zoltan Kelemen of Romania.
Keven Vander of Belgium.
Alpine skiing's Argentine Carlos Lannes. (This is an older photo.)
Ski jumping: Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer. He won bronze.
Norway's Sverre Haugli won the gold medal in a speed skating event today!
Sven Kramer of The Netherlands warming up. He won the gold medal in 5000 m speed skating.
Sven and coach...
Sven after winning...
Shani Davis of the USA.
And this is Germany's Patrick Beckert.
This is Switzerland's Simon Ammann, who won the first gold medal at these games for ski jumping.
And Trevor Marsicano of the USA.
That's all for now, but I will have more!