Olympics - Own the Podium - Backfires

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  • most golds by a hosting country EVER, and tied for most golds at a winter olympics EVER.

    if that's not success, i dont know what is.
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  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,685
    Solat13 wrote:
    With the gold in curling tonight, Canada just tied the record for most golds by any country for a Winter Olympics with 13. They are now tied with the U.S.S.R. in 1976 and Norway in 2002.

    So I think the title of this thread is really wrong at this point ... ;) .

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... wD9E4RJ900

    Yay!!

    Whatever the final outcome may be, and ignoring the continuous debate, I believe that Canada has done extremely well these Olympic games, and I am very proud of our athletes' accomplishments!! It has been a very exciting Olympics!

    Well done!
    Well said!
  • Rygar wrote:
    Solat13 wrote:
    With the gold in curling tonight, Canada just tied the record for most golds by any country for a Winter Olympics with 13. They are now tied with the U.S.S.R. in 1976 and Norway in 2002.

    So I think the title of this thread is really wrong at this point ... ;) .

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... wD9E4RJ900

    Yay!!

    Whatever the final outcome may be, and ignoring the continuous debate, I believe that Canada has done extremely well these Olympic games, and I am very proud of our athletes' accomplishments!! It has been a very exciting Olympics!

    Well done!
    Well said!

    I second that emotion. Great job by all our athletes, they've done our country proud :D
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  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    most golds by a hosting country EVER, and tied for most golds at a winter olympics EVER.

    if that's not success, i dont know what is.

    It is very successful, I think in the years to come it will only get better, I tend to think these Olympics were a product of Calgary and the training facilities there, now with the training facilities in Vancouver it should really help.
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  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,685
    Most golds at a winter olympics ever.
    I think for the most part we showed a lot of class to the competiting countries and their atheletes (big ovation for Miller and Cho(sp?) during their respective medal presentations, etc).

    It is still a shame the fellow from Georgia died when this all began.

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    While 'Own The Podium' was not a good idea, for a number of reasons, I think we did A-OK as far as medals go.
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