With hours to go before the opening ceremony starts, the 2022 Winter Olympics has already notched its first win.
Because who wants to snooze in a cardboard bed when you can score a high-tech sleeper complete with several settings including Zero-G mode? "It's as if the Beijing organizing committee said, 'How can we just absolutely just one-up Tokyo?'" luge athlete Summer Britcher joked in a TikTok video from her Olympic Village digs.
And with that dispatch...let the games begin! No, not the competitions that end with podiums and medals and elegant nosegays of flowers, but rather the pastime we all indulge in every two years of gleaning every tiny factoid about athletes and sports we may never have even heard of before staying up all night to watch them all play out. Important PSA: Don't sleep on skeleton, which has daredevils racing headfirst down an icy track on the smallest of sleds.
So as the likes of Nathan Chen, Mikaela Shiffrin and Chloe Kim prepare to take the ice, slopes and halfpipe, it's time for you to hit the books and learn about their pre-game rituals, favorite breakfasts and their dreams for the future.
Consider this E! News' crash course on how to be the Winter Olympics' No. 1 fans. There are no medals to be won, but the pride lasts forever. So, game on!