Images found at winter2010olympics.net/
The Winter Olympics of Vancouver have gotten off to a fast start with much fanfare and contraversy. I will not go into alot of that.
With a number of games already contested, the medals have been awarded and many more are still to come. The US is doing very well at this point. The most number of medals awarded and tied with the most number of golds, 8 total and 2 golds. The golds coming in Women's Moguls and Men's Snowboard cross. Apollo Ohno garnered the silver in 1500 meter short track speed skating with the bronze going to another American, JR Celski. Bode Miller scores a bronze in the downhill. Another bronze in the same Women's Moguls that scored the first gold of the games for the US.
The medals are around 1 pound in weight, one of the heaviest in the history of the olympics, and have laser etchings of tribal symbols. They are unique in that they are wavy or undulating as opposed to the flat medals of years past.
