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The XXII Sochi Winter Olympic Games / Ski And Skate Against Hate

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Trojita

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You can call yourself prince when the supposed "dynasty" you are descended from hasn't existed for centuries?

What a twat.
 

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They'll get their fair share too. Germany will be good too.
For a small country, Norway is surprisingly the favorite. They take Winter O seriously.

So do we. I don't know many people that watch the summer games but the winter Olympics are pretty huge.
 
They'll get their fair share too. Germany will be good too.
For a small country, Norway is surprisingly the favorite. They take Winter O seriously.

Well one thing that favors the norwegians over the some other smaller countries is that they concenrate to the individual sports. For example in Finland and Sweden ice hockey takes huge chunk of winter sport juniors and you can only get two medals in it per olympics.
 
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Why is't Russia in the mix? This is their home game; they should be top 3.

They are. Problem is, a lot of Russian funding has routinely gone to the Summer Olympics. Plus, after the break up of the USSR, a lot of their top athletes and talent went to places like Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus etc. Russia has now only started to get back to its form in the summer Olympics. Plus, while Russia is dominant in Figure skating and hockey, and other sports, they usually get manhandled in things like skiing and snowboarding which the US/Austria/Norway usually dominate in.

But this time they've gotten a lot of funding, where they will most likely break in the top 4.

It's going to be US/Germany/Canada/Norway/Russia/Austria as top countries. US is the favored overall winner just because they're so good at all sports. Norway will get a lot of the skiing, biathlon medals though. It's sort of how China usually gets a lot of gold in summer for events like ping pong, shooting, weightlifting, other more obscure sports, but does poorly in track and field.
 

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a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Anyone else finding it funny that the country whose greatest author wrote "Lolita" has a 9 year old girl as their mascot?
 
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