big deal. its a home olympics for them. ofc they get golds. it happens all the time. (china anyone?)
US still winning total medals, and beat you in hockey LOL.
even if we lose today, we still beat you in your own sport in your own country.

btw how well do you guys do in summer olympics?

This post was edited by cambovenzi on Feb 28 2010 07:11am

Looking at the number of people that live in Canada compared to the US you shouldnt even be talking..

Not our fault no one wants to live there.
Ooo.

i dont see canada coming to the US and beating us in football or something.

All these arguments are stupid, whichever one your country happens to be winning at the time is going to be the one you think is more important.

The way I've looked at it since the begining is like a point system, 3 for gold, 2 for silver, 1 for bronze and I add up the total. Not sure who is winning atm, but I'd bet it's close.

I think you should look like the ratio of like the number of people living in a country / medals. When you see it in that way a country like norway is doing very well.

Yeah, I was reading a news article about that, Norway has like over 5 per million residents while the USA and canada are below 1.

The population one I looked at was how many athelets you sent, because there are only so many you can have compete per event, so a country might have more athletes than they can send.

Well it's not like a country can pick the number of athletes they can send.. it's about qualification etc. For example austria sent like 5 for ski jumping out of 50 while an other country had 20 but could only send 1. As long as the athletes are good enough there isnt really a limit to the number from one country that can compete in most sports.

Edit: Of course i mean in Team sports, bob sled, ..it is limited

So i think this ratio still says a lot.

This post was edited by SeaBas on Feb 28 2010 02:32pm

just a little history:

1960: ussr 7/5/9 - germany 4/3/1 - usa 3/4/3

1980: ussr 10/6/6 - gdr 9/7/7 - usa 6/4/2

2002: norway 13/5/7 - germany 12/16/8 - usa 10/13/11

and where were those winter olympics?

now post canadas medals

oh...

Canada: 14 gold medals (olympic world record)
USA: something pathetic

Get good, yankees. Also, dont even bother playing hockey... you're no good at that, either. Russia >