The Official 2010 Winter Olympics Thread - "Angry Wayne Gretzky is Angry" Edition
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Nobody on TV was hyping Ohno to be hands down the best skater. They all said he was good and make it to the finals (which he did in every event). When your in the FINAL medal run its obviously a little bit different considering the best of the best are there.TheGreatMightyPoo said:
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Seth C said:
lol wut
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Chumly said:
That was a nice way of saying he doesn't deserve all the hype.
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Ohno is old news, he needs to relax. Basketball is technically made by a Canadian regardless of what his citizenship became after the fact. Who cares what is the deciding factor for the best country. Just be happy with how your particular country is doing. As long as Canada beats their own personal records im more than happy 
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Fraull said:As long as Canada beats their own personal records im more than happy
This is true spirit.
Buba Big Guns
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Canada on a roll. Lets finish this off with a huge bang,
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Chumly said:
Making the finals is not what it's about when you are one of the most talked about athletes in these games.
Some back the hype up.
See Shaun White.
See even Lindsey Vonn.
Don't see Apolo Antohn OhNo!!!!!
X26 said:
We are DEFINITELY tying our Turin total. We are in the final of men's pursuit, so we are at least assured of a silver. Add to that a men's hockey medal and a men's curling medal, and we will have 24 medals guaranteed, which would tie Turin's total. Canada has a good chance of beating their all-time total.
Did anyone watch bobsled today? So many crashes. Damn.
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Ah, I missed the two speed skating gold races. :/
Anyway, great job by our guys. I know they really wanted to redeem themselves.
Anyway, great job by our guys. I know they really wanted to redeem themselves.
My big thing with the medal count that gets me defensive is it seems illogical to say the "overall medal" winner is the country with the most of one kind of medal.
I can understand that different organizations might value one type of medal count over the other, but I just don't see how you can use the term "overall" and not count 2/3rds of the medals when making that determination. Note- I am NOT saying winning the overall medal count as I define it is better than winning the gold medal count- just that it doesn't seem right to call them the same thing.
I can understand that different organizations might value one type of medal count over the other, but I just don't see how you can use the term "overall" and not count 2/3rds of the medals when making that determination. Note- I am NOT saying winning the overall medal count as I define it is better than winning the gold medal count- just that it doesn't seem right to call them the same thing.
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Chumly said:
Well, correct me if I am wrong but he was defending champion on the last race and he was fourth for most of it until he desperately tried to do the impossible.
Plus, the top Korean skater or one of them wasn't even in the final because he wiped himself out.
I'd say that's underachieving in something you have won before.
schuelma said:
Again, I think both evaluations make sense from a certain perspective, but look at it this way:
If the whole thing were a tournament where each of the particular events were a qualifying round, the golds would be the ones to get into the final round. Of course, then the final event would be merely who can count the highest with gold discs, but...
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As of right now, Canada is better than any other country at 10 sports. That's how I look at it.
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The Canadian anthem could be heard the most in Canada.
What? Have you not been paying attention to NBC's specials?? When Ohno won the race in 2006 he had NEVER won the 500M previously. Not in a single world cup. I dont think he won the race in any world cups after either. The 500M is just so crazy that all sorts of things happen (Hint: Canadian got it handed to him by the Korean falling). He overachieved in 2006.TheGreatMightyPoo said:
So we can agree that Joannie Rochette's performance had no quality.Alucard said:
All this talk about who's winning the olympics is dumb. You don't win the olympics. Your athletes go out and make your country proud. And you're free to take it however you please, whether they win or lose by .01 seconds, or overcome some great obstacle to make it to the end and say "I did this". They are there to inspire everyone watching, regardless of standings.
Anyway, when NBC breaks down the medals, they always point out who is in the lead of the total medals and who has the most gold. Tonight Costas, said how many the US had won and where that put us in our olympic history, and then said how Canada had the most golds, followed by Germany. You can recognize more than one country for their achievements without being a dick about it.
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:lol
medal standing bitches :lol
http://winterolympics.external.bbc.co.uk/medals/2010-standings/index.html
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ok i lied. I'll take 1 bronze so long as it's in Biathalon.
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Chumly said:
I tend to avoid anything with Bob Costas and Jay Leno on it.
He is heralded as ONE of the best skaters though and it's not just because he won Dancing with the Stars.
To say his Olympics was a success is something I can't agree with at all.
Plus, every race is batshit crazy in that sport.
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Rubashov said:
She's hot and says "Scooby Doo" cutely.
Qwerty710710
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USA 34 medals
Canada 21 medals
Eat shit Canada, and by sunday USA will have more gold medals also.
Canada 21 medals
Eat shit Canada, and by sunday USA will have more gold medals also.
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Pandaman said:
Canada was projected to be competing for top spot in the medal count. They messed up, but the last few days done really well.
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USA>>>>>Canada
Everyday know your roll bitches.
Everyday know your roll bitches.
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I thought the gold vs. total medal count was stupid in the Beijing Olympics, and I think it's really stupid now. Personally, I'd rather see my country(Canada) have a great quantity of medals in various disciplines than fewer, but golder, medals... but it really doesn't matter... I'm really proud of how Canada's performed at these games (it's really nice having a lot of gold medals for once and our total medal tally is very solid), and I tip my hat to the US for performing brilliantly. 30+ medals is spectacular no matter how you slice it. No one wins the Olympics. You can only lose them by being bitter whiny assholes, so please kill yourselves or shut the fuck up.
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I just rolled a 7 to your 2, bitch. I win. Who rolls next?Qwerty710710 said:
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Definitely within reach.Chumly said:
There's a big element of chance. I doubt anyone predicted Canada would have 10+ medals. So, some of our athletes have performed better than expected. Others have just missed the podium.
All you can do is try and fund these programs as best as possible. Your top 5 world-ranked athletes may not always perform as expected, but by building a solid program you remove ensure results in an acceptable range.
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whose prediction? doing some googling.
CTV tv had 1-3
forbes and WSJ had 27 with 5 gold.
there's a CTV article on a 29-6 gold prediction
CNN has 29-10 gold.
so yea, seems we've exceeded [read doubled] alot of peoples projected gold medal count.
thanks, i wasn't following anything at the beginning as i usually only watch the hockey.Buba Big Guns said:
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scorcho said:
:lol :lol :lol
Approval? England's been bitching about the games ever since it started. Apparently they wanted us to look bad to make their pathetic go at 2012 look better in comparison.
I hope they enjoy their Simpsons porn.
They didn't have the best olympics they could have, that's for sure. I'd say their showing was unfortunate, but to have enough programs and athletes a hair's breadth from gold is still impressive.expy said:
The other question is: would that 33 bronze country be better than Kazakhstan, who only has 1 silver? Fuck yes.
That country does not exist.expy said:
But it really depends, do you dig range or gold? Do you dig both? How does it compare to your nation's previous record.
Did this other country win most of it's gold in penguin herding, staring contests, and rock paper shotgun?
Until the Olympic committee starts putting a point system to these medals, it's all up in the air. Although in my opinion a gold medal is worth at least 5 bronze. So yeah the other country is "better".
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