Do you have a connection to this winter's olympics?

That's very cool! No, everyone I know more likely to watch the sports on TV than participate in them

My connection isn't to a specific Olympian, but I live somewhat near the Kearns Speed-Skating Oval in Utah. Many of the world's speed skaters come here to train. Some even live here all the time now.

Being involved in girls hockey we have met a number of Canadian players.... share the same last name as one but unfortunately no relation. When we lived in the Toronto area my DD did a number of camps run by members of the women’s team..... was amazing to have the ladies involved with the younger girls

I have no connection whatsoever to any of the Olympians, but it’s fun to read everyone else’s stories.

In my mind, I could have won the gold in figure skating if I had ever learned to skate! 😁

No for these games.  

But we do have quite a few state and “local area” athletes and/or athletes who attended the University of Vermont or other area colleges.  Also some of the skiers have attended Highschool at the Green Mountain Valley school which is a private school that has a training partnership with the US Ski Team.

Our paper and TV stations have done list and profiles of all the athletes who have ties to our area and there are a lot. It was really interesting to read their stories. The disclaimer is that that our area includes Vermont,  the North Country/Northern NY, the Upper Valley/parts of NH and Dartmouth College,and Lake Placid where a lot of the luge competitors train.    We do enjoy keeping up with how they all are doing.

not this year, but my dad was friends with the first american to win a gold medal in alpine skiing.. Gretchen Fraser.. she won in 1948.

I've skied with a few of the past olympians.. so impressive...

Sure do! Gabby Daleman went to the school I work at and her dad is a teacher here too.
They have also lived 2 doors down from us for 14 years

Not the winter olympics but the summer ones. I worked with Michael Phelps mother for a long time. We were both home economics teachers.

My dd played hockey and has met quite a few players from the Canadian women's hockey team. We also have met John Morris the gold medal curler several time at a friends cottage.

My daughter played hockey against  Jillian Saulnier the other NS girl that is on Team Canada. 

A retired co-worker of mine has a daughter who is competing in the Paralympics. She lost her right leg above the knee in 2011. She had always been very athletic and the doctors said that was what saved her life. She loved snowboarding prior to her accident and made it her goal to compete in the Paralympics after. She placed 9th in Sochi. A large group will be cheering for her all over Alberta. 
Here she is Michelle Salt

 

A few years ago at a local Bonspiel my friend's curling team beat John Schuster's team. John won a bronze medal at the Olympic games a while back and is on the current team. My friend said, "We could play against him twenty more times and would not beat him, but we did that one time." Curling is big where I live. People golf in the summer and curl in the winter.

A couple of the men's hockey players play in the college hockey league I follow. They are great college players - will be interesting to see how it turns out on an international level. The women's goaltender, Maddie Rooney, plays for a local college.

Nope, beyond 15 athletes being from Utah!   A guy I went to high school with was in the Para Olympics.

ETA: Both of us shared the exact same birthday and at the time, we had the same initials!

I live the same country as the blokes who won silver in men’s moguls and bronze in 1/2 pipe!
Hahahahahaha!