Bonjouro from week two of the Winter
Olympics in beautiful Cortina, Italy.
Hope you had a fabulous 3-day weekend.
I'm Koi Wire here with another fresh
episode of CNN 10. A lot went down over
the weekend here since the last time I
saw you. Let's get you started with some
of the incredible moments we had. Norway
has continued their dominant run at
these winter games with Norwegian skier
Johannes Huslat Claybo becoming the most
decorated gold medal winning Olympian of
all time following a win in the men's
cross-country skiing relay. It is his
ninth career gold and an historic moment
on the slopes for Brazilian skier Lucas
Pinero Braten whose breathtaking finish
in the giant slalom landed him gold.
It's not just Brazil's first ever Winter
Olympics medal. It's the first for all
of South America. Plus, one of the most
incredible comeback stories you will
ever see. Italian skier and flag bearer
Feder Rica Brion, named the Snow Tiger,
stunning the world with not one but two
gold medals. The win comes just 10
months after a devastating leg injury
nearly ended her career. Brione needed
multiple surgeries, couldn't even walk
for more than two months. She was out of
competition for nearly a year, making
her return just weeks ahead of these
games. And while she says that she'll
likely never fully recover, she weighed
in on her surreal accomplishments
following the races.
>> It's kind of hard. Um if Yeah, I I would
exchange my two medals for to come back
and not have this injury for this is
this I'm sure. But um I'm here and this
uh teach me something more and it
happened. You have to accept it. Things
are happening in life and and yes. So I
will continue my my healing for and and
just to try to make all the sports that
I love.
>> Now all these historic moments are
keeping me pretty busy, but I still had
a chance to catch up with a very
familiar face.
>> From the stage to the slopes, bringing
fire to the snow. Got a clock around his
chest. Flavor Flave still in the show.
From mics to the monof always bringing
joy when flavors in the house. Yeah.
Yeah.
>> Yeah boy.
>> And that's right. Just like Sly Stone
said, we going to take you higher with
Ky.
Yeah,
>> that's right. None other than Flavor
Flave, the Public Enemy rapper, is the
official hype man and sponsor of this
year's Team USA bobsled and skeleton
cruise. and he's taken his role very
seriously, even hitting the ice himself
to prepare for the games. Here's what he
had to say about that.
>> That ride was crazy, but I really
enjoyed it. And see, I'm an adrenaline
junkie. Yeah.
>> You know, I'm a big kid. I never grew
up.
>> You know what I'm saying? I like like
exciting things.
>> And then I saw that I saw the skeleton.
I said, "Oh my god, I got to try that."
I topped out at 66 miles hour, bro. Oh,
I I enjoyed it so much, Coy. I joined
the team.
>> Meanwhile, a unique decadesl long
tradition is going strong on the
sidelines of these games. Pin trading
draws fans from all over the world as
they look to swap lapel pins, stories,
and other swag. Our Antonia Mortonson
got an uplose look to see what it's all
about.
This is an Olympic tradition you might
not know about and it's been going on
for decades. It's called pin trading.
So, I'm about to do my first pin trade.
Never done one before.
>> I bought my first pin this morning.
>> This is the day off pin.
>> It's right.
>> Um, and so what will you trade me for?
Well, I will trade you anything that
you'd like on here, but I have one I'll
suggest, and that is a USA pin if you'd
like that. Those are very popular.
>> Amazing. Okay, I will accept.
>> Some pins may go for 300, $400.
>> Oh, wow.
>> I've seen pins as high as $2,000. And
the exciting part about it for me is
it's a great way to meet people because
if you think about it, if you walk down
the street anywhere in the world and
you're just walking down the street,
it's hard to go up to somebody that you
don't know and have them accept you
easily.
>> That's my very first pin. I love
collecting the pins at the Olympics I go
to. They're very special. So, while I'm
here, I try to get venue pins or mascot
pins or something.
>> And how long have you been a pin trader?
>> I've been a pin trader since 1972. My
first games was in Munich when I was 10
years old. By the end of the games, I've
wound up with 60 pins. And hi, I'm
Andrew. I have a problem.
>> Would you do a trade with me?
>> I'll give you one.
>> You give you one?
>> Yeah. That's a torch relay pin from
Vancouver 2010. And I actually ran with
the torch. That's what this is all
about. You You make friends um right
here in this room. All these different
pin collectors. I probably know half of
them.
The origins of the Olympic pins can be
traced back to the first modern games of
Athens in 1896 where delegations wore
official cardboard badges. But the
trading of pins first began in the 1980s
and is still going strong.
>> Now to the International Space Station,
which is back to being fully staffed one
month after a medical emergency forced
its previous crew to return to Earth
early. One ignition and liftoff. Go
Falcon, go Dragon and gospeed Crew 12.
>> Four astronauts docked safely over the
weekend as part of the Crew 12 mission
following roughly 30 hours of space
flight. Their arrival was a welcome site
and brings the headcount aboard the
orbiting lab back to the optimal number
of seven. A skeleton crew of just three
astronauts had been running the station
following crew 11's abrupt departure.
limiting the amount of research that
could be conducted. During their roughly
eight month stay on the space station,
the crew 12 astronauts are slated to
carry out an array of research projects,
including ultrasound scans of their
blood vessels, research related to
bacteria that cause pneumonia and even
simulated lunar landings that will help
NASA prepare for the upcoming Aremis
missions.
Pop quiz hot shot. Today is the first
day of the Lunar New Year. What activity
do observers typically avoid? Cooking,
cleaning, spending money, or wearing new
clothes?
If you said cleaning, you so fresh and
so clean. Clean. Asian cultures who
celebrate the Lunar New Year believe
that sweeping or taking out the trash
symbolizes throwing away the good
fortune that just came in. So maybe a
good excuse to get out of some of those
chores later today. The biggest holiday
across much of Asia begins today,
marking the start of a new year on the
lunar calendar and a fresh beginning
filled with family traditions, hopes for
prosperity, even robots performing kung
fu.
In the Chinese zodiac, each year is
assigned one of 12 animals and one of
five elements in a repeating 60-year
pattern. This time, the zodiac aligns
under the fire horse.
>> The horse is a powerful fire element. So
it's a pure fire year. So fire is a very
strong energy, very energetic.
>> And for many celebrating, luck isn't
just symbolic. It's something you can
share. Across East Asia, people exchange
crisp cash and red envelopes to pass
good fortune into the new year ahead.
CNN's Will Ripley takes us to Taiwan,
where fresh bills and lucky numbers are
in high demand. Luna New Year is almost
here and people are lining up at banks
like this here in Taiwan to get crisp
new bills and red envelopes. Red
symbolizes luck, protection, and new
beginnings. And the cash inside is meant
to pass good fortune from the giver or
the receiver. Especially from elders to
kids or bosses to employees. Now, here
in Taiwan, like much of East Asia, brand
new money is seen as a fresh start,
clean and lucky. Old crumpled bills like
this, bad vibes and bad luck. People
line up even longer to get these rare
200 and 2,000 new Taiwan dollar bills.
They can put all five colors of
Taiwanese currency in red packets for
extra good luck. Here in Taiwan, people
favor even lucky sounding red envelope
amounts like 600, 800, or 1600 for
smoothness and prosperity while avoiding
any amount with the number four because
it sounds like the Mandarin Chinese word
for death.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10
goes the extra mile. Actually, make that
183 miles across seven continents. So, I
did the World Marathon Challenge, which
is seven marathons on seven continents
in seven days.
>> Don Ducet's journey began in the coldest
continent, Antarctica. 26.2 miles later,
she was on the move again, racing from
Africa to Australia, and across the
Middle East, Europe, and South America
before completing her final marathon
back in the United States. She logged
plenty of distance on foot and even more
in the air. Talk about a frequent flyer.
I think I ran for just over 29 hours,
but you spent way more time than that u
on a plane.
>> Ducet placed third among women in the
global challenge. She's now completed
more than 80 marathons, including two on
every continent and one in all 50
states. She's resting briefly before her
next challenge, hiking to Everest base
camp.
>> You never know what tomorrow's going to
bring. So, I feel like if there's
something you want to do, if there's a
challenge, something you want to
accomplish, do it now. Talk about an
adrenaline junkie. All right, sunshine.
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