Then there’s also 2002, where we finished 4th overall in the medal table.
Shall I continue? There’s 1998, when we were 4th in golds and 5th in number of medals.
You don’t know what you are talking about.
You guys need to learn the secret. In the U.S. we just invent new crap, put it to an alterna-rage soundtrack, pump it out into the world through syndication and win a half-dozen Gold before anyone else even figures out what the hell they are supposed to be trying to do.
The last stuff you made up, Hockey and Curling, have been around for more than 100 years, everybody knows it. You people have like 8 months just sitting around in bars drinking, you think you’da come up with something original by now.
I did not parade around behind the flag like some sort of golden boy and then end up farting on stage in 1976.
If it has nothing to do with you, stop complaining!
Flipped it from NBC to CTV. My God, they’re treating it as if the Canadian skier in the womens’ moguls let down the entire country.
And I thought Americans were supposed to be bad at geography.
i think it’s because there was HUGE hopes that she’d be the first to win a gold medal in Canada. She didn’t win, so it was a HUGE letdown. But good for her in competing at the highest level of competition and winning a medal in the process.
You do know most people who have a chance of winning don’t win, right? It’s kind of one of those inevitable things about sports.
Seriously, I hope you’re doing this tongue in cheek or you sound like a retard. Aside from the fact that you stopped watching the Winter Games in 1988 and therefore are twenty years out of date, you don’t even know what continent Canada’s on.
Wow, Valteron is acting more like an American with every post! :eek:
The Scots invented curling. Considering that “Gordon McKenzie” is the modal male name in Canada, though, it might as well have been the Canadians. HURRY HARD, EH?
Okay, northerly if you prefer. Nit-pick!
I am quite aware of what continent Canada is on, thank you, since I live there. This is the BBQ! pit not the nitpick pit. Nordic is often used in modern parlance to mean northerly. If that deatil is the best you can use to hang your argument on, I feel sorry for you.
So for those who get real confused by them there words let’s explain in words simple enough for you to understand."** Canada got lotsa winter cause Canada real far North. Why Canada not do better when Canada play in snow?**
Is that simple enough for your nit-picking brains to grasp?
So, would you call Seattle, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit and Buffalo Nordic cities?
Some people use “nordic” to mean “northerly” in a general sense, Some use it to mean “mainly Scandinavian”. Then again it might include Latvian or Estonian. If you prefer, say Canada is a “northerly” country. In eitherr case this is beside the point of this thread.
Samll things amuse small minds. If you keep picking that nit it will die you know.
I never sai it was about me.
YOU are the one who dragged me into it when you came up with the irrelevant argument “Can you do better?” Following that principle, only persons who could do a better job as President than the incumbent would be allowed to criticise him, I suppose.
I am just tired of a Canadian teams that usually sucks at the Olympics. Canada simply is a loser country that does not worship success as it should.
okay, then why don’t you get involved in a sport of your choice and instill a winning attitude. You don’t even have to be a coach. Put your money where your mouth is and grant a huge monetary incentive for any Canadian to win a Gold in Canada. Rather than complain, do something about the lack of care you seem to think permeates in Canadian culture.
Valteron, time to stop digging. You truly don’t know what you’re talking about. In 1984 Canada finished 6th in gold medals and 4th in overall medals at the summer Olympics in Los Angeles. We got more medals than China did. IN 1996 we finished 11th in medals at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, ahead of Great Britain, Japan, and other countries that have bigger economies than ours.
In the 2002 winter Olympics, we finished 4th in golds and 4th in overall medals. in 2006 we finished 5th in golds and 3rd in overall medals. In 1998 we finished 4th in golds, and fifth in overall medals. In 1994 we finished 7th in golds and 5th in overall medals.
You have to go all the way back to 1992 before you find a result where Canada should have done better given its size and economy. We’ve done just fine at the Olympics.
My guess is that your perception is that we keep getting let down, because you listen to too much hype before the Olympics. The hype and anticipation of greatness drives ratings, and it’s human nature to give the best spin on things like your chances in a sporting event. Then the actual medal count doesn’t live up to your over-inflated hopes, so you think we’re failures when in fact we’ve done quite well.
the 84 LA olympics should have an asterisk… didn’t communist nations boycott?
God, and here I thought you were too young to remember Nancy Greene, but you’re even old enough to remember Barbara Ann Scott!
We Canadians don’t do very well at Olympics, true enough, but your posts are slightly hyperbolic. Well, this is the fucking Pit, after all.
I’m sorry, my numbers are completely off. I read my table wrong.
Canada won a total of 379 medals altogether. In the combined Summer games, they’ve won 58 Gold medals, 94 Silver medals and 108 Bronze medals. In the combined Winter games, they’ve won 38 Gold, 38 Silver, and 43 Bronze.
Canada is tied for 9th in terms of gold medals won during the winter games. The top 10 Gold medal winning nations in the winter games are:
Norway-98
Soviet Union-78
US-78
Unified Germany (Germany pre 1948-After 1988) -60
Austria-51
Sweden-43
Finland-41
East Germany-39
Canada-38
Switzerland-38
In the 2006 Winter Games, Canada won 7 Gold medals, (putting it in 5th place), and 24 total medals (putting it in 3rd place)