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Canada finished with 24 olympic medals, only one behind the US, and third overall.
This was a record breaking olympics for Canada. The best we ever did before this was 17 medals in Salt Lake City.
Not bad for a country with a population less than California, huh?
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didnt that Bode Miller guy really screw up his runs, or something like that?
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Not bad for a country with a population less than California, eh?
Fixinated™.
And have fun with the next Winter Olympics. I predict the Canadians will take the gold in ice fishing! At least, that's what the Closing Ceremonies told me.
At least they found someone to sing for Canada who wasn't Geddy Lee or Celine Dion.
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If the idiot mens hockey team had done its job, we would have hit the target of 25 medals. I know I'll be there in 2010 to cheer the boys on to gold.
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Originally Posted by Dork.
Fixinated™.
And have fun with the next Winter Olympics. I predict the Canadians will take the gold in ice fishing! At least, that's what the Closing Ceremonies told me.
At least they found someone to sing for Canada who wasn't Geddy Lee or Celine Dion.
Hey, don't be knocking Geddy Lee. Just because he's ugly as sin doesn't make him a bad singer. 
What I want to know is why this year was such a record medal haul for the Canadians?
I mean, they should OWN in curling every four years. 
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Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy
Hey, don't be knocking Geddy Lee. Just because he's ugly as sin doesn't make him a bad singer.
What I want to know is why this year was such a record medal haul for the Canadians?
I mean, they should OWN in curling every four years.
Cindy Klassen alone won 5 medals - 16 of them by women in total. Don't know what accounts for the spike, but I did wonder that....
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Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy
Hey, don't be knocking Geddy Lee. Just because he's ugly as sin doesn't make him a bad singer.
What I want to know is why this year was such a record medal haul for the Canadians?
I mean, they should OWN in curling every four years.
Cindy Klassen alone won 5 medals - 16 of them by women in total. Don't know what accounts for the spike, but I did wonder that....
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Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy
Hey, don't be knocking Geddy Lee. Just because he's ugly as sin doesn't make him a bad singer.
What I want to know is why this year was such a record medal haul for the Canadians?
I mean, they should OWN in curling every four years.
Cindy Klassen alone won 5 medals - 16 of them by women in total. Don't know what accounts for the spike, but I did wonder that....
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Woooo--hooooo
GO CANADA!
Howszat?
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Maybe next year Canada can one up the US.
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Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy
Hey, don't be knocking Geddy Lee. Just because he's ugly as sin doesn't make him a bad singer.
No; that he's a bad singer, makes him a bad singer. 
I like that we got something like seven 4th-place finishes, too. Not to mention the bomb we had in aerial skiing, considering our dominance there over the past couple years.
Hopefully, this is all because governments have been giving out a little more funding? I don't know. I really think we should start giving the athletes money for winning a medal, though; they can say "winning for one's country is all the motivation an athlete needs" all they want, but put 20 large on the line and I can't imagine it not lending inspiration....
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Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy
Hey, don't be knocking Geddy Lee. Just because he's ugly as sin doesn't make him a bad singer.
What I want to know is why this year was such a record medal haul for the Canadians?
I mean, they should OWN in curling every four years.
Cindy Klassen alone won 5 medals - 16 of them by women in total. Don't know what accounts for the spike, but I did wonder that....
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Originally Posted by Steve Bosell
Let's not.
Why not? This board is not restricted to American citizenship.
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton
No; that he's a bad singer, makes him a bad singer.
I like that we got something like seven 4th-place finishes, too. Not to mention the bomb we had in aerial skiing, considering our dominance there over the past couple years.
Hopefully, this is all because governments have been giving out a little more funding? I don't know. I really think we should start giving the athletes money for winning a medal, though; they can say "winning for one's country is all the motivation an athlete needs" all they want, but put 20 large on the line and I can't imagine it not lending inspiration....
greg
Prize money might help, but then again look at the Americans. They had their star snowboarders and skiers and they just totally wiped out. I read in NYtimes that when Miller wiped out that last time he just skied down the hill and went into his luxury trailer and left his other team members to make comments on their poor performance, even though he was the official team rep! Pretty pathetic.
.... that failed victory jump by that woman snowboarder though, will be a classic.
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton
No; that he's a bad singer, makes him a bad singer.
Geddy Lee is just awful.
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Yeah, the atheletes did pretty damn well this year. All the best for 2010!
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Beauty, eh!
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The Olympics? Was that on?
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Congratulations Germany for being first.
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Originally Posted by Monique
Congratulations Germany for being first.
Indeed!
How well do they normally fare?
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Not very good; this is why, it is so very impressive that they won this time.
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Originally Posted by besson3c
How well do they normally fare?
They won the nation ranking twice before – in Albertville 1992 and Nagano 1998 – and are generally quite good at the winter olympics (due to the Alps probably where winter sport is popular).
Canada is officially only fifth this time:
http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/MDL/MDL_Big.html
The Olympic rules lay out that the Final Rank should be based on the overall number of gold medals won.
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And imagine that the girls won 16 on the 24 medals.
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Originally Posted by Monique
Not very good; this is why, it is so very impressive that they won this time.
Germany is second in the Eternal Ranking of the winter olympics with 119 gold medals, just two gold medals behind the eternal first Russia and before Noway with 103 and the USA with 78 gold medals.
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Congratulations to Canada for a job well done. Our friendly neighbors to the North.
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I am especially proud of our gals.
What we need now is kick the guys out of the NHL and give the job and reasonable pay to the girls.
The guys (those whiny b*****s) will have to go back on the bench and learn from the professionnelles.
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Yeah, 16 of our medals were won by our women. Very cool to see.
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I heard 16 of the medals were won by the women of Canadia! That's impressive!
Coooo coo coo coo, coo coo cooo cooo!
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Originally Posted by iLikebeer
I heard 16 of the medals were won by the women of Canadia! That's impressive!
Coooo coo coo coo, coo coo cooo cooo!
What is coo cooo coo a reference to? Never caught that...
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Originally Posted by besson3c
What is coo cooo coo a reference to? Never caught that...
When I was a kid, I thought it was the Canadian national anthem, but turned out it was just the McKenzie brothers from the Great White North (SCTV) pictured upthread and also featured in Strange Brew, a Canadian comedy classic.
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