a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/sports/olympics/29xgames.html?partner=rssnytemc=rss"img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/01/29/sports/29xgames_CA0/thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/aJon Olsson, an accomplished freestyle skier, figures he will spend close to $500,000 in an attempt to win a $6,000 bet that he could not make Sweden?s 2014 Olympic Alpine team. More...