While some celebrities and pro athletes engage in Olympian feats of tweeting over on Twitter, many actual Olympic athletes who will be competing in the 2010 games in Vancouver, which begin today on the networks of NBC Universal, also have Twitter accounts.
“These are going to be the Twitter Olympics,” says Bob Condron, Director of Media Services for the United States Olympic Committee. “There’s no telling where the updates will come from. It could be the bench during a hockey game, or even the medal stand.”
Here are just a few interesting athletes to follow throughout the games. Click on the link to go to their Twitter page. Note that you need to sign up for Twitter to follow:
Jeremy Abbott (U.S. figure skater)
Tanith Belbin (U.S. figure skater)
Gretchen Bleiler (U.S. snowboarder)
Emily Cook (U.S. freestyle skier)
Meryl Davis (U.S. figure skater)
Samuel Edney (Canadian luge racer)
Kris Freeman (U.S. cross-country skier)
Erin Hamlin (U.S. luge racer)
Nicole Joraanstad (U.S. curler)
Ted Ligety (U.S. alpine skier)
Julia Mancuso (U.S. alpine skier)
Christine Nesbitt (Canadian speed skater)
Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong (a.k.a. “The Snow Leopard”; Ghanaian skier)
Apolo Ohno (U.S. speed skater)
Jeret “Speedy” Peterson (U.S. freestyle skier)
Kikkan Randall (U.S. cross-country skier)
Katherine Reutter (U.S. speed skater)
Angela Ruggiero (U.S. ice hockey)
Emily Samuelson (U.S. figure skater)
“Team Night Train” (Steven Holcomb, Curt Tomasevicz, Justin Olsen and Steve Mesler; U.S. four-man bobsled)
Louie Vito (U.S. snowboarder)
Lindsey Vonn (U.S. alpine skier)
Johnny Weir (U.S. figure skater)
Charlie White (U.S. figure skater)
and NBC has a nice overall sampling of U.S. athlete tweets