Before you sink into your couch this weekend to live through the Winter Olympics vicariously , get a little more familiar with the athletes who will represent the United States in Sochi, Russia See also: 15 Winter Olympians to Follow on Instagram In the map below, explore the birthplaces of the 230 men and women on Team USA at the Winter Games. Simply click the numbered tabs to explore the geographic distribution of athletes by sport the blue dots represent male athletes and red dots represent female athletes. You can also find fun facts on the left sidebar. Did you know that athletes from the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association comprise nearly half of the athletes on Team USA? The team includes two foreign-born athletes, one in Canada and one in England. Click around and explore above. Read more…
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How Sochi Stacks Up to Past Olympics Host Cities
As the Sochi Winter Olympics begins, people are making comparisons between the Russian venue and the host cities that have come before it. This year’s games in Sochi disprove any notion that the Winter Olympics lacks the pomp of the Summer Olympics. Medal counts aside, each successive host city works to make its games bigger, its torch relays longer and its total cost greater than the games before. Well, maybe not the latter so much, but Sochi’s estimated $51 billion price tag sure makes it seem that way. See also: 12 Sochi Photos That Russia Probably Doesn’t Want You to See When compared, the facts and figures of the Winter Olympics certainly show signs of trending more and larger . Back in 1998, 72 events comprised the Nagano Games. That number has increased to 98 in just 16 years. Another drastic increase is in the hours of coverage CBS covered 123.8 hours of the Nagano Games, while NBC plans to cover 539 hours of Sochi competition.
Rosanne Cash Talks Songwriting, Twitter and How Streaming Hurts Musicians
Rosanne Cash has been writing songs for 35 years and creating hit records for almost as many, but few have achieved the popular and critical success of her most recent release, “The River and the Thread.” The album debuted in mid-January at No. 11 on the Billboard album chart and quickly rose to No. 1 on Amazon’s music best sellers’ list. The Los Angeles Times recently predicted that the album would earn its place among “the most powerful works of 2014.” See also: 13 Must-Follow Musicians on Instagram ” The River and the Thread ” traces a reunion of sorts that Cash experienced with her family’s roots in the Deep South, weaving together bits of history of the region and glimpses of the world her father, Johnny Cash, grew up in. Read more… More about Music , Marketing , Social Media , and Entertainment
Mark Zuckerberg’s Stake in Facebook Reduced to Less Than 20%
Mark Zuckerberg’s stake in Facebook has been reduced to just under 20%, according to an SEC filing on Friday. Zuckerberg, the company’s cofounder and CEO, now owns 478.9 million shares of Facebook, or 19.6% of all shares. One year ago, Zuckerberg’s stake in the company was nearly 30% See also: Is Facebook Too Big to Fail? In December, Zuckerberg sold $2.3 billion worth of Facebook, largely to pay his tax bills for options that he exercised Zuckerberg famously pledged in September 2012 not to sell any shares of Facebook for at least a year, a move that was intended to show his confidence in the stock at a time when it had hit a new low. A few months later, he actually increased his stake in the company to 29.3% from 28.2% on the day of the IPO. Read more… More about Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg , Stocks , and Business
It’s Not Just Sochi: Centuries of Olympic Scandals in 1 Map
Scandal has surrounded every aspect of the Winter Games in Sochi. From anti-gay remarks to stray dog slaughtering to environmental concerns to shoddy construction to yogurt wars to — well, you get the point. But the Sochi Games is far from the first time Olympic festivities have been marred by scandal involving both the competitions and the social conditions surrounding the event at a whole. See also: The Athletes Arrive: 15 Behind-the-Scenes Photos From Sochi During the 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis, a marathon runner who finished in first place was later disqualified for driving a car throughout most of the race. In 1936, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime oversaw the games in Berlin.