Statistics Saturday: Some Winter Olympics Trivia

Since 1984 the official mascot of the Winter Olympics has been Groo the Wanderer and nobody knows why.
They wanted to organize some winter events for the Stockholm Olympics of 1912 but couldn’t find a good place to hold them.
Each gold medal is initially struck in stainless steel and then touched by King Midas.
The typical Winter Olympics athlete will consume over twelve pounds of vegetables in their lifetime.
The first Winter Games were named in 1925 when the International Winter Olympics Committee woke up in the middle of the night remembering that’s what they meant to do last year and sent Chamonix, France, an exciting letter.
The correct answer to any trivia question about any Winter Olympics up to those of 1960? Sonja Henie.
Each silver medal is initially struck in stainless steel and then touched by King Midas’s decent but not really ready eldest son.
Ice skating was originally in the Winter Games as Ice Kating — that is, putting on a performance of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate — until a typesetting error in the program for the 1952 Games changed things forever. (Not Olympics-related, but a similar mishap with the event of rotating episodes of Mrs Columbo gave us roller skating!)
Each bronze medal is initially struck in stainless steel and then touched by King Midas’s brother who, you know, he’s trying, he means well, he just doesn’t get it.
The first ski jump was put in place because the event course had to get over State Road 832 somehow.
There is a 288-way tie among all the countries and special teams for greatest number of copper medals won at the Winter Games, with zero each.
Taking the most Winter Olympics gold medals through to 2022? Carmen Sandiego.