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Originally Posted by JayP
It's actually nothing like that at all. Swimming comes down to your final time and nothing else. There's a lot more to hockey than your point totals.
I really don't see what's the problem with being happy with personal bests. Canadian bests I can agree with because in some events beating a Canadian record isn't saying a whole lot. But when it comes down to it, when you achieve a personal best you've raced better than you ever have in your life. I realize that's what you're supposed to do at the highest level, but you can only knock so much time off your previous best. If you actually compare medalling times to some of the Canadian's personal bests going into the Olympics it's very unreasonable to expect them to lop off that much of a difference and get on the podium.
It's funny to see so much whining about the medal total when octothorp's analysis is sitting right there. Obviously it's not going to be entirely accurate, but it gives a good look at what chances Canada has. None of our medal favorites have even competed in the medal rounds. Only 4/18 medal hopefuls have finished competing. It seems pretty reasonable that our medal count would be low at this stage in the Olympics.
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Having the 4 or even 1 would be nice. It's that big fat ZERO in the paper every morning that's got everyone on edge. At work this morning the only thing I heard was:
"What's wrong with Canada, can't even win a (censored) medal."
Let's get the men's 8 tonight gold and everyone will be able to breathe again.