The 28-year-old, who won the normal hill event earlier in the Games, becomes the first ski jumper to win four individual golds.

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Daniel Bessoni(ph), a spokesman for the Turin Games organizing committee, says numerous new ski lifts and cable cars have been built.

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For those not cognizant that there was roughly a year until the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, a sudden injury to American World Cup alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn served as an immediate reminder that the Sochi Games are quickly approaching.

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The Winter Games boost snow-related sports, but do little for ski resort valuations.

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But precisely what it took for the little-known Japanese ski resort to beat mighty Salt Lake City for last year's Winter Games might never be known.

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And Scotia Capital analyst Michael O'Rourke says he has detected "no noticeable shift" in ski resort business as a result of this year's Salt Lake City games.

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Buttermilk is an easy mountain with lots of green and blue terrain, but is also the home of the X Games, so teens and tweens love to go where their idols ski and ride.

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China's best ski slopes are at the nearby Yabuli Ski Resort, while in Harbin itself the Songhua River provides space for ice skaters and ice hockey games.

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"Mr. Putin told me Sochi has the best snow in the world, and I have no reason not to believe him, " former Olympic ski champion Jean-Claude Killy, chair of the International Olympic Committee coordination commission for the Sochi games, told reporters last year.

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