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Marks on 19 March 2012
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crissindahouse said:
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Canada is the best at hockey. Also I guess we're the best at winter sports in general based on us getting the most gold medals at the 2010 Vancouver olympics.

Also I would argue we have the best bands per capita. And I emphasize the per capita part, obviously America and UK have more good bands than us, but for our small population, we have a lot of talent. Rush, Tragically Hip, BTO, The Guess Who, Arcade Fire, etc.

but you forgot the home bonus didn't you? i think russia, usa, germany, norway and maybe few others are better in wintersport in general.  or was that a joke exactly because it only was one time?

Yeah I was only half-serious. We are pretty good at winter sports, I think we do really well at skiing and a few other events, but yeah I do admit in general the USA is usually better than us, among others. 

at least exactly those sports you are good in will get even more medals to win in the future. snowboard and freestyle will get more events in sochi and i believe you are good in both. and as example we gemans have no clue about freestyle so this will hurt us a lot lol :(

so maybe you will be top three in sochi as well! i'm sure russia will win but after russia, i don't now...


I hope we can do half-decently in Sochi so that Vancouver wasn't just a fluke! But yeah I've gotta think Russia and America for sure will beat us, maybe Germany or some other Europeans as well. 

I'm not sure what sports Germans are the best at, but you guys definitely make the best products, especially cars!

in wintersports, we are very good  in biathlon and bobsleigh for example. biathlon is very popular in europe but nobody cares about it in usa and canada. no clue why because it's really great in my opinion. then i don't understand why shorttrack isn't popular here but ice speed skating is because shorttrack is, in my opinion, not worse than that.

i just looked the last 5 winter-olympics. we were place 2,1,2,1,3 but i believe in sochi we won't be top 3 because we lost our best athletes in some sports this and last year and the nwe ones aren't as good as them.

i would say next olypmic games first three places will be russia (if not with skill, then with dope lol), norway and one place open for some countries  (germany, usa, canada, south korea, sweden, austria, swiss)

Yeah biatholon is a pretty cool sport. Cross-country skiing isn't popular in North America though so maybe that's why USA and Canada don't really care for it, we're more into downhill skiing. 

Is Norway really that good? Maybe I just don't pay enough attention to the past medal counts. I guess it makes sense they're great at the winter sports, but I wouldn't have thought they were top 3 calibre. 

Edit: I've done some looking at past medal results, and I can definitely see that Norway does really well most years. Seems like Germany and USA are always top 3 and someone like Austria, Norway or Canada gets the other top 3 spot.