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Olympics

Canadians are much better at sports where you have to strap knives to your feet to go fast on ice while trying to fly with risk of death.
 
Metalleaf said:
Canada only had 1 gold and 18 medals in London.

They've already got 2 gold and 13 medals so far and likely a few more medals on the way. Rough Olympics my ass.
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Yes, rough Olympics.

Other than the pool and Rosie's repeat, could you please point to me the areas in which the Canadian contingent met expectations?

The rowing squad was an absolute disaster. We went from an expected four or five medals there to just one, including a couple of virtual locks each Olympics (men's eights, women's eights).

Oldershaw, Van Koeverden, and Langlois all out in their respective kayaking/canoe events before the finals. Hopefully de Jonge picks up the gold there. Anything less would be disappointing from him.

No medals in boxing for the fifth consecutive Olympics (Bujold was an expected medalist and many felt the same of Fortin - inept judging or not). Barber's flame-out last night. Thiesen settling for bronze while being the heavy gold favourite (I give her major props for coming back after her awful day one) in the women's heptathlon. No medals in judo. Just a single medal in diving (we normally get at least three or four there).

Yeah, it's been rough if you are even the remotest bit critical and understand the areas where we've historically done well. They should pick up some medals in the last four or five days of competition, but we looked guaranteed to pass 20. Now we might be lucky to match London or Beijing, with far too much emphasis on bronzes.
 
And whatever happened to our sailing program? We used to be reasonably competitive there. It's a little shocking that given the number of yacht and sailing clubs here, to say nothing of Canada having the world's longest shoreline, that we don't get more medals like the few we picked up in the past.
 
damn Sweden beat Brazil in penalty kicks so should we lose to Germany today, we would have to beat Brazil for a bronze,,,
 
Good first half by the Canadians, but that goal was very preventable. First, Labbe could have come out and cleared the ball away had she been more decisive. Then Buchanan panicked and made a bad tackle.
 
Terrible play so far. Germans are beating them in the air everytime. That free kick no one made an effort to get up

Keeper needs to come off her line more as well.
 
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