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Olympics

I think only one Canadian, off the top of my head, has ever won the 200m race at the Olympics: Percy Williams in Amsterdam 1928. He also won the 100m sprint that year, making him Canada's pre-eminent track star from the first half of the twentieth century.

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If De Grasse can manage to somehow beat Bolt against all odds tonight, that would be a pretty phenomenal athletic accomplishment.
 
UWHabs said:
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.
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do we have anything in BMX or mountain biking?
 
down to 15th in medals as New Zealand and Brazil have passed us. Brazil was having a terrible games but they have picked it up in the last couple of days.
 
They should honestly just adjust the scoring system so that the entry scores are significantly higher on smaller divers. All the Chinese do in gymnastics and diving is get the absolute smallest people they can find and then train the hell out of them before they can crawl.

It's not very fair to the other competitors.

Nonetheless, I'm very happy for Benfeito coming back with a well-earned bronze medal. And it was tough seeing how emotional Filion got after what is probably the last dive in a great career. She really was feeling it at the end there.
 
Yeah the reality of the end of a career, something you have done daily for what 15-20 years at the highest levels must be a hard one to face.
 
If basketball had subjective scoring that was based on size, than yeah. Or do you think that Javale McGee is better than Allen Iverson?
 
JaysCyYoung said:
They should honestly just adjust the scoring system so that the entry scores are significantly higher on smaller divers. All the Chinese do in gymnastics and diving is get the absolute smallest people they can find and then train the hell out of them before they can crawl.

It's not very fair to the other competitors.

Nonetheless, I'm very happy for Benfeito coming back with a well-earned bronze medal. And it was tough seeing how emotional Filion got after what is probably the last dive in a great career. She really was feeling it at the end there.
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Check their ages too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-flumenbaum/scandal-of-the-ages-docum_b_118842.html

But I don't agree on changing the criteria based on size... what's next, every sport has weight classes like boxing and wrestling. There are natural advantages in sport based on a person's physiology, you can't change that.
 
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