iN NUMBERS: BC represents at Olympic Winter Games

It’s time to get on your couch and offer some harsh critiques about sports you know nothing about. Tell that figure skater do hit another triple salchow, you don’t need to know what that actually is. Tell that luge athletes to go faster somehow, you don’t need to know how.

Some people think the Olympics is about the world coming together, when in reality it’s about how many creative ways we’ve found to send people down a mountainside or over a sheet of ice.

Here are some numbers from the Milano-Cortina games so far:

• 35: Team Canada athletes are from BC.
• 3: Sets of British Columbians siblings are competing in Milano-Cortina.
• 2: Speed skaters are from Salmon Arm.
• 1: Olympic snowboarder from Kelowna had to back out this year due to an injury.
• 3: Medals. That’s how many Team Canada has won so far.
• 207: Athletes are on Team Canada this year.
• 150: km/h. That’s how fast luge racers go in the Olympics’ fastest sport.
• 95: Metres. That’s how far Canadian ski jumper Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes flew in Milano-Cortina.
• 90: Minutes. That’s how long Team Canada’s men’s hockey team practiced for on Feb. 8. The U.S. team skated for 40 minutes.
• 44: Years old. That’s how old curler Marc Kennedy is making him the oldest Canadian Olympian this year.
• 18: Years old. That’s how old snowboarder Eli Buchard is making him the youngest Canadian Olympian.