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Dillatont

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Perpetual dabbler. Baking, cross-stitching, music, video games, winter sports. Yearly supporter of Desert Bus for Hope. My YouTube show “Bread After Dark” https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCEgOfUzCzzRd2PscjMKOnBg

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Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 11d

This is framed and heading off to @desertbus.org for this year's #db2025 run! I am hoping that fans can celebrate a beloved Sega mascot's 30th anniversary, as is tradition!

A completed and framed cross stitch of the box art for Ristar for the Sega Genesis which is headed off to the 2025 Desert Bus for Hope marathon!

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Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 8h

Winter Games Fact #251: On to Vancouver 2010! The 2010 torch relay went for 106 days, and took 28,000 miles (45,000 km). It was the longest torch relay within one country in the history of the Olympic Games.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 1d

Winter Games Fact #250: Swiss Snowboarder Philipp Schoch in 2006 became the first snowboarder to win 2 Olympic Golds when he defended his title in the Parallel Giant Slalom. What's even more fun about that is that he defeated his brother, Simon, in the gold medal matchup!

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 2d

Winter Games Fact #249: Jamaica has no Winter Olympic medals, but a Jamaican has one. How? Lascelles Brown, a bobsleigh brakeman, competed in 2002 for Jamaica. He became a Canadian citizen, and at Torino 2006, he won silver while part of Team Canada, becoming the first Jamaican-born winter medalist.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 3d

Winter Games Fact #248: Finland had a...unique games in 2006. They won their only (all-time) medal in Alpine Skiing, and their only in Curling. They also medaled in ski jumping (hasn't happened since), freestyle skiing (hasn't happened since), and Nordic Combined (hasn't happened since). Shrug?

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 4d

Winter Games Fact #247: Winning 3 medals in a single games in a sport with 4 events is a difficult task. And yet...5 short track speed skaters did it during the 2006 Winter Olympics (3 from S. Korea, 1 from USA, and 1 from China). South Korea's Ahn Hyun-Soo actually won 4, three of which were gold.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 4d

Winter Games Fact #246: The US took bronze in the 2006 Olympic women's hockey tournament, which actually represents their WORST ever result since women's hockey started in 1998. The Americans were upset by Sweden in the semis, and it's still the only non-USA vs. Canada final to this day.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 6d

Winter Games Fact #245: Final day events of the Winter Olympics have medals presented at the closing ceremonies, and Torino 2006 had a notable one when Italian xc-skier Georgio Di Centa won gold in the 50km race and had the medal presented by his sister Manuela (also a prior xc-ski gold medalist)

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sorry, what???

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 7d

Winter Games Fact #244: The 2006 Winter Olympics were topsy-turvy for Nordic nations. Norway (2 golds) had one of its' worst ever results, as did Finland (0 golds). However, Sweden won 7 golds (their most at that time), and Estonia won 3 golds (still their all-time best).

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 8d

Winter Games Fact #243: On to 2006. For the first time since 1988, the Winter Games didn’t have a new sport or discipline…but there were 8 new medal events added.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 9d

Winter Games Fact #242: In the 2002 Ski Jumping events, Switzerland's Simon Ammann won double golds, while Poland's Adam Malysz won a pair of medals. This would happen again in the future....but not in 2006. Neither individual would medal that year, but the basic repeat happened instead in 2010.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 10d

Winter Games Fact #241: Canadian Beckie Scott technically won all three medals in the 2002 Olympics xc-ski pursuit. How? Originally, she won bronze, but moved up to silver 18 months later after a DQ due to a banned substance. A second DQ two months later moved Scott up to gold medal position.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 11d

This is framed and heading off to @desertbus.org for this year's #db2025 run! I am hoping that fans can celebrate a beloved Sega mascot's 30th anniversary, as is tradition!

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Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 11d

Winter Games Fact #240: The 2002 Winter Olympics also featured a star turn from the "King of Biathlon", Norway's Ole Einar Bjorndalen. He won gold in all four biathlon events, the first time that had been done. It wasn't his first gold, nor his last- he ended up w/ 8 (14 total medals) in his career

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 12d

Winter Games Fact #239: The 2002 Winter Olympics were the first where 3 Nordic Combined events were held. Finland’s Samppa Lajunen immediately took advantage, winning both individual events and the team gold. To this day, Lajunen is the only athlete with 3 golds in Nordic Combined at one Olympics.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 13d

Winter Games Fact #238: Calling what Janica Kostelić achieved at the 2002 Winter Olympics "historic" feels like an understatement. She became the first alpine skier to win four medals at a single Olympics, and three were gold. Furthermore, she was the first-ever winter Olympic medalist for Croatia!

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 14d

Winter Games Fact #237: The 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics were notable for Australia's first-ever gold won by Steven Bradbury in short track. Late in his race, all four athletes in front of him crashed, and he emerged from the carnage victorious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAAD...

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Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 15d

Winter Games Fact #236: Salt Lake City is at high elevation, which makes things a LOT easier for speed skaters. So much so, in fact, that at the 2002 Winter Olympics, a new Olympic record was established in all 10 speed skating events, and world records were set in 8 of them!

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 16d

Winter Games Fact #235: You know who DIDN'T host the 2002 Olympics? Sweden. Though not for lack of trying. Ostersund's runner-up bid was their third consecutive failed attempt to win the Games. Prior to that, Falun had three fails, and Gothenburg had one, for 7 consecutive misses from the country.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 16d

Winter Games Fact #234: The 2002 Winter Olympics headed to Salt Lake City, and because of Denver’s (later withdrawn) 1976 games, SLC became the 4th different American city to be awarded a Winter Olympics.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 17d

Winter Games Fact #233: Many Winter Olympics fans are used to the Netherlands being high up the medal table thanks to speed skating dominance. That trend was evident in 1998. The Dutch team won 11 medals, all in speed skating, to finish 6th overall. This included a podium sweep in the men’s 10000m.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 19d

Winter Games Fact #232: Denmark won the silver medal in Women's Curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics, which marked the country's first ever (and still only) Winter Games medal. It's the only time a country's first winter medal has come via the curling tournament.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 20d

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Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 20d

Winter Games Fact #231: Japan, hosts of the 1998 Winter Olympics, reached heights that they haven't managed to repeat since. Their 5 gold medals is the most they have ever won in a Winter Games to this day, and gold medals won in freestyle skiing and short track speed skating have yet to be matched.

Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social · 21d

Winter Games Fact #230: One of the big moments for host Japan at the 1998 Winter Olympics came in ski jumping. Japan won their first (and to this date only) team gold in the sport. The result was a redemption for Masahiko Harada, whose poor jump had caused the Japanese team to win silver in 1994.