The United States Virgin Islands sent one competitor to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy; however, she injured her wrist during a crash in practice and was unable to compete.
Famous quotes containing the words virgin, islands and/or winter:
“But see, the Virgin blest
Hath laid her Babe to rest:
Time is our tedious song should here have ending;
Heaven’s youngest teemed star,
Hath fixed her polished car,
Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending;
And all about the courtly stable,
Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“Out alone in the winter rain,
Intent on giving and taking pain.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)