What an awesome day for Canada. Three medals!! Hell ya!
Still so stoked for McMorris, man he really battled and he did it all with a broken rib. I have had a broken rib before and it hurts to do a shoulder check while driving, i can't imagine doing 1080s or 1420s flying through the air. Just awesome.
Awesome to see how Canada has grown since hosting the games here in Calgary in 1988. The facilities in Calgary, plus the Own The Podium program that was implemented prior to Vancouver has really helped establish Canada as a Winter Olympic power.
Awesome to see how Canada has grown since hosting the games here in Calgary in 1988. The facilities in Calgary, plus the Own The Podium program that was implemented prior to Vancouver has really helped establish Canada as a Winter Olympic power.
I wonder is there the opposite happening in the Summer games?
Not really, pretty flat.
A peak in 1996, partly because of our amazing runners. We had 44 in LA, but obviously that was insanely skewed by the entire Soviet Bloc not being there.
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While true, also keep in mind that the Winter Games have grown far faster than the summer ones in terms of new sports added. Canada is getting more medals in recent games partly because there's simply a lot more sports to get them in
A peak in 1996, partly because of our amazing runners. We had 44 in LA, but obviously that was insanely skewed by the entire Soviet Bloc not being there.
The 1996 peak was also due to the rowing program, which accounted for 6 medals there, and has accounted for just 8 in the last 4 Olympics combined.
Another big factor is that they've added a bunch of "new" sports to the Olympics since 1988 that either weren't in Calgary, or were exhibition sports in Calgary.
Freestyle skiing, snowboarding, short track, skeleton, curling, women's bobsleigh, and women's hockey are all sports in which Canada won medals in Vancouver that weren't full medal events in Calgary.
If you look at Canada's medal haul from Vancouver and take out all the sports that weren't in Calgary, the count would be 3 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze. Half of those are in speed skating; 2 are in figure skating; one for 4-man bobsleigh; and men's hockey is the other.
So far this year, none of Canada's medals are in sports that were held in Calgary.
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