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Originally Posted by pepper24
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.
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Before 1998, actually. And as you noted, the explosion in events added to the Olympic program since 1992 has been huge for us:
1924: 1-0-0=1
1928: 1-0-0=1
1932: 1-1-5=7
1936: 0-1-0=1
1948: 2-0-1=3
1952: 1-0-1=2
1956: 0-1-2=3
1960: 2-1-1=4
1964: 1-0-2=3
1968: 1-1-1=3
1972: 0-1-0=1
1976: 1-1-1=3
1980: 0-1-1=2
1984: 2-1-1=4
1988: 0-2-3=5
1992: 2-3-2=7 (4 medals in events that existed in 1988, 3 in new events)
1994: 3-6-4=13 (7 medals in "classic" events, 6 in new)
1998: 6-5-4=15 (7 classic, 8 new)
2002: 7-3-7=17 (6 classic, 11 new)
2006: 7-10-7=24 (10 classic, 14 new)
2020: 10-7-4=24* (7 classic, 17 new)
*Includes three medals of unknown colour; possibility of an eighth medal in a "classic" sport (four-man bobsleigh)