man I just love Olympic stories especially about atheletes from small countries...you expect the larger countries to do well and some of the smaller but established programs from some of the smaller countries but it is the guys from smaller countries and those without older programs whether they win or not, they are out there competing for the love of their sport...didja see Grandma Luge or the cross contryr skier from Thailand...folks like that really put the shame to some of our professional atheletes
GO ESTONIA Go madjack
...I have come to believe that, conflict resolution, through violence, is never acceptable.....................mj
Ladies cross-country skiiing--that's where the woman have to ski to pull their husbands away from the bar.
Seriously--congratulations!
And I agre with Jack--it's the cool stories about regular people winning events that makes it's so interesting. What was the big deal when they first allowed profesional basketball players to compete?
It was only interesting when they got BEAT really badly!
Third Gold medal to our little Estonia is very big achievement.
Estonia.
Geography
Area: 45 227 km² (the Tartu Peace Treaty of 1920 defined 47 549 km²)
Coastline: 3794 km
Borders: 633 km total, 339 km with Latvia and 294 km with the Russian Federation
Distance from Tallinn to Helsinki: 85km; to Riga: 307km; to St.Petersburg: 395km; to Stockholm: 405km
Population Statistics
11 August 2004
Total population*: 1.351 million