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worm
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JaysCyYoung
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I literally LIRL at this post. God bless you, worm. :lol
JaysCyYoung
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He would have to be. Or some combination of one of them closing and the other opening at the next Olympics in Tokyo.
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Oh man, Warner was brutal on the pole vault. It looks like he's going to fall back into the bronze medal position with two events left in the men's decathlon. He's been leaving far too many events on the floor here that he's capable of scoring much higher in.
Eaton is on another planet. He's blowing the rest of the field away. 5.20m when Warner couldn't even clear 4.80m. So dominant.
Eaton is on another planet. He's blowing the rest of the field away. 5.20m when Warner couldn't even clear 4.80m. So dominant.
It will be interesting to see if the COC says these were successful games. We wanted to be in top 12 I believe and right now we are in 13th, tied with Hungary with 14 medals, but with four fewer gold.
If you go by IOC standards, we are 18th as a number of other countries have more Gold than we do.
By overall totals, we could be considered to have been successful, but not Gold wise.
If you go by IOC standards, we are 18th as a number of other countries have more Gold than we do.
By overall totals, we could be considered to have been successful, but not Gold wise.
the French guy is better than Warner in the last two events so his only hope probably is bronze
JaysCyYoung
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I wouldn't call them a "successful" games overall though. The track and field team has performed fairly admirably as have the women in the pool. The rowing and diving teams have been pretty disastrous based on our historic results and there have been some major disappointments in other areas.
Canada could literally be pushing 20-25 medals with a few colour improvements in our current medal totals if people had performed as usual. It seems like the conversion rate for Canada has been pretty porous, and while I know that every country has disappointments in various disciplines each games and you can't operate these things in a vacuum for one country specifically, it nevertheless still somewhat bugs me that we are wasting a great effort from the pool in areas where we normally do very well.
We've done about as expected medal-wise, but we could have done so much better given the surprises we've seen, and that's probably the disappointing part. If we can nab some good hardware in the last few days, I'll probably come around though.
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leafman101
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The medal count may be average, but we've also seen the emergence of two young superstars in marquee events who are 16 and 21. Tough to complain.
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Yeah, I addressed that. I still find it just unconscionable the decisions that Rowing Canada made. We also got screwed out of a few potential medals due to judging in diving and boxing, but that's already been mentioned.
I'd love to have an Olympics like the British had in London 2012 where just everything came together perfectly. You have to figure the Asian nations are going to be seriously dominant in four years though with a home Games in Tokyo.
JaysCyYoung
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So long as Swim Canada handles the men's junior program as well as they have the women's, we could be a top nation in the tier two swimming countries. We probably won't touch the United States or Australia, but we can be up there with the other big guns like Great Britain, South Africa, Hungary, Italy, France, etc.
The British have sustained it this Olympics too. I don't recall them ever being this good.
The Australians have been disappointing given how much they focus on these type of events.
Japan will be a force next Olympics and well the Chinese are the Chinese.
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Australians online are pissed with how they've performed this year. They were a big disappointment in the pool compared to their usual dominance and have carried those struggles into other areas too.
UWHabs
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Goal was top-12 in medals, and 19+ total.
We're at 14 now. Wiebe is guaranteed another. ADG should get one in the 200. That's up to 16, and still more than a few contenders left:
Henderson in golf, 4x100 relay, Warner all could challenge for a medal. Women's soccer playing for Bronze too. Mark de Jonge in Kayak is also expected to win his race tomorrow.
Not counting the 84 games, 92 was the only time in the last 80 years that we've won more than 3 Golds, and if we can even get 2 more Golds we'd already be at our 3rd best ever in terms of number of Golds. Silvers is this year where we're failing. We had 12 silver or gold medals in Beijing, 14 in Atlanta, and we're only at 6/15 (counting Wiebe) right now.
apparently after London, they had a total meltdown as they only won one gold? The bump their athletes got from the 2000 games has worn off. I wonder how long the bump for the British will last.