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Stanley · 02-21-2010, 08:33 PM

There's all the talk about funding or whatever, but seriously, when you have like 5 athletes in an event and can't even medal, let alone crack the top 10, like c'mon...I'm talking mostly about the downhill skiing and speed skating...

Like with the Hamelin bros. last night, talk about an epic fail in strategy "Let's take the lead and then just run out of gas!" It's the same story with many canadian athletes...I also think canadians by nature don't handle the pressure as much in many olympic sporting events, at least it seems this way...If those were 2 Americans up front, they wouldn't have choked...

02-21-2010, 08:33 PM	#63
Stanley First Line Centre Join Date: Apr 2006 Exp:	There's all the talk about funding or whatever, but seriously, when you have like 5 athletes in an event and can't even medal, let alone crack the top 10, like c'mon...I'm talking mostly about the downhill skiing and speed skating... Like with the Hamelin bros. last night, talk about an epic fail in strategy "Let's take the lead and then just run out of gas!" It's the same story with many canadian athletes...I also think canadians by nature don't handle the pressure as much in many olympic sporting events, at least it seems this way...If those were 2 Americans up front, they wouldn't have choked... Last edited by Stanley; 02-21-2010 at 08:35 PM.