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Originally Posted by transplant99

Canada should be quite proud as well as their average coming in was 6 medals per games. They will have quadrupled that total when all is said and done after tomorrow.

Awesome stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-tim...es_medal_table

Interesting stuff. That 6 medal average is greatly schewed from past Olympics when the Canadians didn't perform well. Every since around the 1998 Olympics the Canadians have taken off. It probably means that from the 1988 Olympics and earlier that we had less than 6 medals on average.

The reason? The Canadians are exceling at new Olympics sports such Curling, ski-cross, snowboard-cross, freestyle skiing, women's hockey, short track speed-skating, skeleton racing etc.

If you take away long-track speed skating (mainly the women), figure skating and women's bobsled what other medals are not new sports?