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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Yeah, you did well in hockey, kind of like a personal BT thing reserved for when you lose, but gained a lot of respect. Nothing personal here, you seem like a pretty good guy.
If you missed it the only countries that count total medals for determining the games winner, are the US and Canada, the rest of the world counts total gold, with silver and bronze as tie breakers, so in the world's view, Canada's 14 gold won.
As far as the Summer Games goes, we have a tenth the population of your country and only a small area that is barely conducive to all year training, so don't expect us to ever make an overall challenge there.
What this Olympics has done for Canada is that it's shown the a financial commitment to our athletes is paying off.
Until fairly recently we never gave University Athletic scholarships to our young and very little other support for any of our athletes. We had this dumb idea that our athletes should be fully amateur and our schools shouldn't have the pressure of maintaining athletic students who otherwise wouldn't qualify. That's all changed in the modern Olympics and Canada finally acknowledged it.
Sorry for the high jack.
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no highjack.... I like hearing other pts of views.... however like you said ... Canada and America use total medal count.... so you argument about the world is moot point here... I respect Canada, as a matter of fact I love Canada. I would move there if I wasnt running the family business here.
I just like to give smart ass jabs back when the occasion arises