At these Winter Games, there are no strenuous slaloms or figure-eights. But if you can’t shimmy up a chimney or wrap a Christmas gift, forget about competing. The annual Santa Winter Olympics kick off this month with about 50 Santas from across Europe testing their holiday mettle in Sweden’s cold, northern reaches.

The founder of Swedish furniture giant Ikea isn’t hurting for money, but the company he founded denied a report that he surpassed Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as the world’s wealthiest man. Swedish news weekly Veckans Affaerer said Ingvar Kamprad has surpassed Gates and Buffett as the world’s richest person.