okr said:
Both countries "won", Canada with the most gold medals ever, USA with the most medals ever. So congrats.
Personally I find it much fairer to count all medals and I wished it would be done everywhere (e.g. also in my country), but anyway.
Either way you count the medals, my country is on 2nd place (10 gold medals = 4 less than CAN but 1 more than USA, 30 medals in total = 7 less than USA but 4 more than Canada).
Pretty impressive, as usual at winter (or summer) olympics and as usual thanks to the girls who won 18 of the 30 medals and 8 of the 10 gold medals. Germany is a ladies' sports nation at the olympics. 
I know that some people find this medal count disgusting and I understand them, but that's how success is measured at the olympics. If your team disappoints and doesn't bring home the expected amount of medals, public and media will force the government to reconsider the national sport promotion. Russia and especially Finland are most probably not very happy with their results at Vancouver.
Great olympics, by the way, despite the luge tragedy - R.I.P. Nodar Kumaritashvili.
I knew Canada would be a fantastic host again. If it were up to me you could give all winter olympics to either a Scandinavian country or Canada (out of all winter olympics I've followed, Lillehammer is still my favorite, Calgary was great as well).
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Yeah. We are not. =D Media is already searching reasons for this and blaming several persons. Biggest reason is lack of money.
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