A few numbers

 Devin Heroux with the information. Some numbers for Canada. There are 215 athletes going to Beijing. The third highest amount going to a winter Olympics. 109 men, 106 women. 106 women are the most women going to an Olympics. Oldest woman is also the oldest athlete, that being Jennifer Jones in curling at 47. Youngest woman is snowboarder Brooke D'Hondt at 16. Oldest male is  curler John Morris, who is 43. Youngest male is freestyle skier Emile Nadeau, who is 19. Competition starts Thursday morning, or Wednesday night here, with the opening ceremony next Friday morning.