What is wrong with our Canadian male atheletes?

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

What's her name in women's skeleton?

it has to be the curlers. with any ice track event even the slightest twitch or miscue will cost someone a medal, skeleton is about luck as much as it is skill. but Bernard had not one, but 2 chances to make not even that hard of a shot to win gold. Sweden didn't win the gold from that match as much as it was given to them by Cheryl Bernard

[JayP]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

What's her name in women's skeleton?

Hardly a choke. She was far back in 2nd place going into the final run. Basically it came down to two options:

1) Reckless, risky run that gave her some shot at gold.
2) Safer, solid run that guaranteed her silver or bronze, but almost assured her no gold.

She choose option 1 and we all know the results. Chris Delbosco made the exact same choice going into the final turns of ski cross.

[Daradon]

I was talking about this earlier today (and I think it's already been covered) but I don't think there is anything wrong with our male athletes so to speak.

Not to take anything away from the women, cause they are kicking ass and I love that they are doing so well and kicking the guys in the butts in the process.

However, with the way women's lib is in other countries, and then women's sport, I would suspect that there is simply less serious competition in many women's events as compared to men.

Not a huge difference. But in any Olympic sport, where gold-4th is often measured in the smallest of increments, any difference could end up changing things in our favor.

To put it more simply, women athletes in countries like Canada and the US, simply have huge advantages over 2nd and 3rd world female athletes. More so than their male counterparts.

It would be interesting to see what percentage of the medals of the US are female won.

[vicphoenix13]

According to the athlete attendance numbers at the Vancouver Olympics, there are 500 more male athletes. That means there is much more competition for medals in mens events. You add in the fact that most European nations spend alot more money on their male athletes and that makes it much tougher for Canadian male athletes. While I want Canadian female athletes to continue having funding equality, it might be the time for the COC to realize that male athletes need even more money to reach the podium.

[JayP]

Don't look now, but Canadian men won have 2 golds yesterday, 2 today, at least a silver in curling, very likely a bobsleigh medal, and at least a silver in hockey.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by troutman

For example, I imagine there are far more men bobsledders than women, world-wide. Same with hockey, ski-jumping etc.

It's much easier for men to get into those other sports also. For instance, the US Bobsledding team is made up largely of failed college football players and track athletes and they entice them to get into these other sports as a way to keep up their natural competitive drive because they don't want to quit sports.

For women, it's not quite the same. The pool is much smaller from the start and they have to be much more dedicated and so we are fortunate as a country to put so much focus and funding on them.