My proudest moment as a Canadian this Olympics was to see how upset Jen Hial was for losing the Gold medal. It was clear that she wasnt there to "try her best" or be "happy to just be there and enjoy the experience." More of our athletes need her winning attitude.
Own the podium was created to get athletes ON THE PODIUM! Not to take a 40th place athlete, pump a bunch of money into them the last 4 years so that they could possibly finish top 20. Canada should have picked out their top medal hopefuls (approx 30% of the team), and put a majority of the money behind those athletes to get them from 7-4th place up to the podium.
Wortherspoon was a failure - why was he even here? Took how much own the podium money for a swan song? Child Please!
Chan choked - FYI I hate figureskating, but 'the quad' DOES make you a man (see Shawn White highlight reels, dude goes all out at practice)
both mens and womens alpine teams should be ashamed! Its your home course!
How are we so bad a luge? We've had a top notch track in Canada for 20 years!!! And spent how many million dollars on that stupid Practice Start building that you see from Highway 1
Cross country and Biathalon - Canmore Nordic Centre!!! And we can't place better than 20th?
A majority of our athletes are just happy to be there, and dont put in 100% effort in their training like other countries do.
There is no reason why we shouldn't win the medal count
118 million dollars spent on 182 Athletes (acutally 205 but take off 23 NHLers)
$648,350 spent per athlete over the last 4 years.
The numbers don't lie
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