Anyplace I can watch the opening ceremonies?
I am just saying that for once in my life I would like to be part of a country where we do not excuse failure and mediocrity with loser excuses like “Well, they tried”.
At the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, Canada came in 6th place in medal count with 25 gold medals. I can also guarantee you that there will be plenty of Canadian paralympians who will roll away from Vancouver with Gold medals.
I’m Canadian. There are 30 cm of snow on my lawn. I won’t be seeing green in front of my house for another six or seven weeks if I’m lucky, Winter we know. Winter sports. . . . .
Oh, I admit we might win one or two Golds. Big fucking deal!
Few of the things that bothered me (doesn’t have to do with the medals argument) is that some singers in the opening ceremony lip-sync.
Brian adams fumbled his first line (didn’t put the microphone up to his lips fast enough when his voice came on). Nor did the girl singing our anthem sing it live. Singers tend to exagerate their movements when they don’t sing live.
I don’t think that’s fair. “Tantrum” just isn’t an accurate way of describing the media reaction.
“Bowel-evacuating panic” comes a lot closer.
Canadian Olympic Flame, or a Canadian’s Olympic Flameout.
Well, do tell us then, what exactly you are doing to support sport in your community?
Fundraising? Volunteering? Donating? Advocating for more tax dollars going to sport?
Or just bitching here? Yeah, I thought so!
You live in a country widely admired for it’s standard of living, respect for human rights, non aggression, diversity, education etc. But you’re upset over a shiny piece of metal for sliding downhill on sticks, or shouting at rocks on rinks?
When the Indian team arrived, without matching outfits, and no money to purchase same, the local Indo Canadian community stepped in and outfitted them in time for the opening ceremonies. I’ll take that over a gold medal any day.
Most Canadians would love to see our country win a gold medal on our soil, to be sure.
Fortunately most are more circumspect than you, on the issue.
But do go on, with the frothing at the mouth and the stupidity, that can only help, I’m sure.
How ya doin’, Gramps?
Also, his childish little rant ignores the fact that Canada has, in fact, done exceedingly well at the last four Winter Olympics. It’s a bit like bitching that, yeah, my team won the Stanley Cup this year but they didn’t win it in nineteen-dickety-two so how good could they be! There’s in fact a strong chance of Canada winning the entire medal table this year. “Go get Grandpa’s pills” has never seemed so appropriate a sentiment.
Another one along with Silken Lauman, Alexandre Despatie, and Brian Orser that were hyped for weeks before the Olympics as potential Gold Medal winners and never won it.
Do you actually think other countries don’t have hyped athletes that fail to win gold? Bode Miller or Dan O’Brien ring a bell (probably not, you seem pretty out of it)?
Not germane to the discussion, but it’s weird that the combined populations of Austria, Sweden, Norway, and Finland are less that the population of California (estimated at 36,961,664 in 2009).
Valteron, regarding your credibility, what is the highest level of achievement in sport that you have personally reached?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kE5QzOprns&feature=player_embedded Here are some great curls. I saw the quad knockout on Tv when it happened.
They have an excuse this time. They are not playing in snow. They are playing in slush 
On the other hand, I can’t wait for the Olympics to be over. The constant hype that assaulted us for the last year or so, turned me off. If I don’t hear about them again, it won’t be soon enough.
Looks like counting is another winter sport the Canadians aren’t medaling in.
But more to the point, that statistic is just amazing. Four countries combined have won more gold medals than one country has! Stop the presses everyone, that’s gotta go on the front page!
What has my sport achievement to do with the OP?
It is obvious, Muffin, that you are labouring under the logical fallacy of the old “can you do better?”
“Can you do better?” makes a great school yard taunt for kids, but it does not make logical sense.
Do movie critics have to have made better movies, and have been better actors, producers and directors than those they criticize?
Do music critics have to be better musicians, opera singers, etc.?
By your logic of “can you do better”, only silver medal winners could criticize bronze medal winners. Only gold medal winners could criticize silver medal winners. If an athlete’s coach never actually won a medal, he should shut up and never criticize the performance of a bronze medalist he is coaching, I suppose.
The last time I checked, “credibility” means believability.
I make the following statement: **“Canada, a nothern country of 34 million people has won 38 golds in Winter Olympics. Norway, with a mere 4.8 million, has won 98.” **
Now, what have my sports abilities to do with that sentence? If I were to tell you that I am a quadraplegic who blows into a straw to move his wheelchair, would the sentence become less credible? If I told you I had won Olympic Gold once, does the sentence become more credible?
To answer your question, I have never participated in team sports. I work out alone at the gym. So fucking what? What does that have to do with my OP?
You can go over to Valteron’s and watch the whole thing, but you’ll wind up covered in spittle.
Wait, are you mad at her tailor for making an ill-fitting suit or her for being a drag king dyke?