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Some people celebrate what they call Fat Tuesday, which is actually that day before Ash Wednesday. This is when people are trying to get as much food as they can for the day. It has been a tradition to celebrate this with food and feast for centuries.
The Lenten Season is a season of fasting and prayer, so people eat as much food as they can before Ash Wednesday begins.
Fat Tuesday is not worldwide celebration: it is celebrated in some countries such as US, Canada and Australia, to name a few.

Graham Watanabe of Sun Valley, Idaho is one among the athletes who passed the qualifying run for snowboard cross.  He leads all the snowboarding cross athletes with a 1:20.53 just behind Alex Pullin of Australia.
He is one of the four US snowboard cross athletes who made it through the qualifying run. At this time, he is the lead the other US athletes with his record time.

Nick Baumgartner was not off to a good start in this 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. He ended up on the fifth slot on World Championship standings on his first qualifying run in snowboarding cross.
This former collegiate wrestler and football player is hopeful that he can still grab one of the medals from the Olympics.
He was able to win a bronze medal at last year’s World Championship.

As soon as the unfortunate news about Nodar Kumaritashvili’s death spread around the web, everyone had been looking for the actual video footage. The video made it through many video sites, and it was also posted previously here, but since this news is sensational, video sharing sites are taking this out.
Nodar Kumaritashvili died a few hours before the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was preparing for the luge competition when he was suddenly thrown off his sled after finishing the finals. He was 21 years old.

The medal count for the 2010 Winter Olympics was already released. US is surely proud to end up leading the medal count for the olympics with one gold, two silvers and three bronzes. Germany follows US with one gold and three silvers while France made it through the third slot with two golds and one bronze. Canada and Korea occupy fourth and fifth slots respectively.
Interestingly, US still leads among men and women athlete participants.
All in all there are 18 nations participate in this 2010 Winter Olympics which is held in …