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Originally Posted by craigwd
As for which is prized more, let's look at Martins Dukurs - the world's best skeleton racer, 3 time world champion, but keeps getting burned at the Olympics with 2 close silvers and mentions how frustrated his is about that.
For Canadians, take Kurt Browning and Patrick Chan: 4 time and 3 time world champion. Browning infamously had some struggles during the Olympics (injury and errors) and Chan lost his best chance at gold in Sochi. Both are obviously very happy to be world champions but extremely disappointed in not being able to up their game for the Olympics.
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For a Canadian example look no further than the greatest speed skater in history. It isn't Doan, Klassen, or Boucher. But all Jeremy Wotherspoon is known as in these borders is a guy who could never live up to the hype at the Olympics, winning only a silver. A World Champion 8 times, still the 500m record holder, more 'tour' victories than anybody else, but you just know not having that Olympic gold just eats away at him. How could it not?