A Canadian flames the whole Canadian Olympic Mess!

Speaking of being angry about your country’s poor performance, the Russians really have it bad. Look at this article:

Canada leads in gold medals at this point: 10

Total medals: 21, placing them in 3rd position. Not that long ago, the country leading in gold medals was thought to have led at the Olympics.

ETA: exciting times ahead: a Canada/USA hockey final on Sunday!!! Yippee!

with a possibility of gold in men’s curling and men’s hockey. Short track team did well today too.

Plus another definite medal (Gold or Silver) in Men’s Skating Team Pursuit.

Confirmed best finish ever for Canada at a Winter Olympics.

Valteron, how is that haircut with the Olympic rings coming along?

Lighten up, Francis.

Gold!

And another gold! Jaysey Jay Anderson wins the snowboarding parallel giant slalom!

Curse you, Canadians! Inviting everyone else to your olympics, then taking most of the gold medals yourselves! That’s just poor etiquette, and very un-Canadian. What happened to Canadian politeness, “have a nice day” and “would you like a muffin with that?”

shakes fist

Oh, wait… We’re supposed to be complaining about how BADLY you guys are doing. Never mind, then.

And a bronze for the 4 man bobsleigh. Pipped for the Silver by 1/100th of a second by the 4 time gold medal winner.

So… let’s see… More Gold than any other country. More Gold than any host country in the history of the winter Olympics. More medals for Canada than at any other Olympics.

<waves and smiles at Valteron>

Actually, checking the event schedule, Canada is officially guaranteed to win the gold medal count. There are only four more gold medals yet to be awarded, and three of those are gold medal games, i.e. only two countries are still in the running. Canada cannot be caught by Germany or the U.S.

So, Valteron, what’s it going to be? How about a MSPIMS post entitled “Canadians Own the Podium”?

Not to mention, if the hockey team wins tomorrow, it’ll be more gold than ANY other country at ANY Winter Olympics.

This is what I’m envisioning for Valteron’s new do. :smiley:

Martin’s team wins gold in men’s curling!
Where does that put us in medal counts?

As of 11pm PST February 27: thirteen. Oh, what’s that? Canada shatters record for golds won by host country? Well shut my mouth

Here is what I said in a thread in the Game Room:

There was a spontaneous singing of “O Canada” a few rocks before Martin and co. won the gold - it was pretty spine-shivery, too.

They did that in one of the early curling rounds too. You could hear the players talking, and one said to Kevin Martin, “Have you ever seen anything like this?” Martin just stared at the crowd and shook his head.

Okay, Valteron, let’s see that new hairdo - double gold in hockey! :smiley:

All right, I apologize for all those things I said in the OP. You can see a picture of me going down on my knees to say I am sorry (wearing my best incontinence diaper) here.

Hmm, you’re younger, more buff, and more black and white than I expected. :slight_smile: