Dillatont

Winter Games Fact #285: Russia’s hockey teams are not permitted to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics, and both were replaced in the lineup with France. The French women’s team, in fact, is making their first Winter Olympic appearance- the only team in either draw to do so.

Winter Games Fact #284: The 2026 Olympics could be the first time that we see a snowboarder win three consecutive gold medals in their sport. Who? That's the fun part! American Chloe Kim (Halfpipe), Austrian Anna Gasser (Big Air), and Czech Ester Ledecká (Parallel Giant Slalom) all could do it!

I've kind of worked my way back to present day with the Winter Olympics facts, so let's find some interesting athletes to watch at this year's games!

YouTube video by VGMesque Desert Bus Game Jam 2025 Soundtrack

And on that note...here's five original songs I wrote this week as part of the Desert Bus Game Jam! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrHb...

Hey there! I have a few new followers today from the Desert Bus Crafter Starter Pack. What can you expect from me? Besides cross stitch, I usually post about the Winter Olympics, baking, and my quest to write music for a video game. Welcome!

Winter Games Fact #283: How dominant was Eileen Gu at the 2022 Winter Olympics? She became the first freestyle skier to win two gold medals in the same games (Big Air and Halfpipe), as well as the first to win three medals in the same games with a silver in slopestyle. At the age of 18. Unreal!

Winter Games Fact #282: Prior to the 2022 Olympics, there was only 1 freestyle skier (Kari Traa) with 3 career Olympic medals. There are now 7, thanks to a combination of longevity (4 skiers medaled in 2014-2018-2022) , a new mixed team event in Aerials, and the sheer dominance of China's Eileen Gu.

So here's to Desert Bus for Hope 2025, where we raised over $1,048,000 FOR THE CHILDREN! We've cried, we've crashed, and we will miss you dearly. See you next year for our *20th* Desert Bus! And make sure to keep an eye out on our socials as we prepare for our big anniversary...

Winter Games Fact #281: The long distance races in cross-country skiing are one of the centerpieces of the last weekend of the Winter Olympics. In 2022, thanks to the weather, the women's race (30km, as intended) was actually longer than the men's race (50km was shortened to 28km) for the first time

Ristar Box Art Cross-Stitch It's Ristar's 30th Anniversary! And to celebrate, Sega is...doing nothing. But that doesn't mean you can't celebrate by winning this cross-stitch from the underappreciated Sega platformer Ristar! T...

Shhhhh.....it's a silent auction! If you get over to @desertbus.org in the next 7+ hours, you can bid on my Ristar Cross Stitch! desertbus.org/2025/prize/X...

Winter Games Fact #280: At the 2022 Winter Olympics, there were 10 events in the sliding sports (Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton). Germany won gold in 9 of them. The only thing that prevented their near sweep was Women's Monobob, where American Kaillie Humphries won gold and the Germans didn't medal.

Green controller with a white plus symbol. Underneath in pale green is "Child's Play" "Play Games. Feel Better."

Desert Bus wouldn’t exist without Child’s Play Charity. The bus started 19 years ago with the goal to raise money for the children, and @childsplaycharity.bsky.social has partnered with us for nearly as long (after they realized we weren't that weird....)

childsplaycharity.org

I am three winter games facts behind. Catch up day!

Desert Bus 2025 A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.

Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond.
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org

Winter Games Fact #279: The Czech Republic and Slovakia both won 1 gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics. While it's not much, 2 winter gold medals is actually as many as Czechoslovakia won from 1924-1992 COMBINED...a rare case of both countries performing better despite the separation.

Winter Games Fact #278: American snowboarder Lindsay Jacobellis won her second snowboarding medal 16 years after her first. Jacobellis nearly won the first-ever gold in Snowboardcross in 2006, but fell while doing a trick and took silver. 16 years later, redemption finally occurred w/ a gold medal.

Winter Games Fact #277: It's rare for a 100-year-old event a new country medal in any event, let alone two...but that's what happened in 2022 in Mixed Team Ski Jumping. Russia (AKA the ROC) won their first ski jumping medal with a silver AND Canada won their first ski jumping medal with a bronze.

Winter Games Fact #276: On to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, which were held just 6 months after the 2020 Summer Olympics due to the COVID pandemic. Six month gap in Olympics used to be normal, but this was the first time winter games were six months AFTER instead of before the summer games.

Winter Games Fact #275: Ester Ledecka won gold in two sports in the 2018 Winter Olympics, but did you know she wasn't even the only woman to win medals in two sports that year? Dutch speed skater Jorien Ter Mors won gold in long track speed skating (1000m) and bronze (3000 m relay) in short track.

Winter Games Fact #274: Norway won 39 medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics, which stands as the current high mark in terms of number of medals won by one country at a Winter Olympics.

Winter Games Fact #273: The South Korean women's curling team had an unprecedented silver medal on their home ice in 2018. Not only had South Korea never won a curling medal before at the Olympics, they had never won a medal at a World Championships in Curling, either. (And those are run yearly!)

Winter Games Fact #272: Canadian ice dancers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue won their record 5th medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics, becoming the first figure skaters to do so. The team event was responsible for 2 of their 5 medals, but it was also their third straight games medaling in ice dance.

Winter Games Fact #271: Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen won 5 medals (2 golds) at the 2018 Winter Olympics...and it arguably wasn't even her best Olympic performance! She actually won 3 golds at both the 2014 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and she also won 5 medals previously in 2010.

Winter Games Fact #270: North and South Korea fielded a combined women's hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but it's technically not the first time they competed together. Korea first competed at the 1948 Winter Games, about 8 months before the official formation of North and South Korea.

Ngl, as a Guardians fan, it kind of hurts watching Shane Bieber give up the losing home run in the World Series. Biebs deserves better than that...

Remember, kids, you too can watch your favorite baseball team win the World Series. All you need is an owner willing and able to spend 350 million dollars and you're set!

Winter Games Fact #269: Home advantage matters more in sliding sports than most at the Olympics. An example of that happened at the 2018 Winter Olympics, with South Korea taking a silver medal in men's bobsleigh. It was the first medal won by any Asian country in any sliding sport.

Winter Games Fact #268: Let's move along to the 2018 Winter Olympics, held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 2018 Winter Games surpassed 100 medal events, a first for the Winter Olympics. (For comparison, the first summer Olympics with over 100 medal events was in 1908)

Winter Games Fact #267: As mentioned before, the 2014 Winter Olympics were when the Dutch speed skating team went bonkers, winning 23 of the 36 medals available and finishing 5th in overall medals. For better context...less than 20 countries have more than 23 winter Olympics medals all time.

Winter Games Fact #266: Japan's Noriaki Kasai became the oldest ski jumping medalist in 2014 with an individual silver and a team bronze at age 42. It was his 7th (of 8!) Olympics and 20 years after his previous Olympic medal. (And he still competed in a World Cup event earlier this year at 53!)