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How Many Olympic Medals will Canada Win this year?

vedderfan10vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
edited August 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
12? 22? 8?

Personally, I think we might win 3 - two in trampolining and one in kayaking...maybe one in mens rhythmic gymnasties... so, 4? Nothing like the olympics to make us laugh at ourselves!

Edit = 08-08-08
OK...women won the first soccer game...

And I think the two events we had today involved Men's gymnasties and dressage...Ian Miller is in some of those equestrian events, so there's a chance for gold there. I am now increasing my first guess at number of medals to 10 - with 3 golds...

Will continue to update as the games go on...and will cut and paste other results that you guys post in this thread....Go Canada!!

Edit: 12-08-08.....0-canada.... No medals, but we're sure trying!! A few 4ths here and there...Just wait until next week...then we'll start grabbing the gold! But we've got heart...the men's gymnast we had in Beijing had broken both his legs 18 months ago and came back to qualify for the games...that's pretty cool...

UPDATE!!!!
16-08-08 - YAY!! Three medals within an hour!! A GOLD and a BRONZE in wrestling and a SILVERin rowing!! Yahooooooo!!! Canada is now 25th in overall standings, up from 55th.
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  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    I hope a few. I enjoy hearing O Canada!
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    None. You'll have a good chance at winning some in 2010 though :)
    NERDS!
  • small town becksmall town beck Posts: 6,691
    South of Seattle wrote:
    None. You'll have a good chance at winning some in 2010 though :)


    :rolleyes:

    What do you know? :p;)
  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    I'll be nice and say 4....maybe. :D
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    I'll be nice and say 4....maybe. :D

    Key word: Maybe

    :D
    NERDS!
  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    0, curling is in the WINTER Olympics
  • vedderfan10vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    South of Seattle wrote:
    None. You'll have a good chance at winning some in 2010 though :)

    Only if there's a Pabst drinking event (EV trucker hat will be part of Canada's official uniform), sitting at the side of the Sea to Sky highway counting cars and noting "foreign" license plates.
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  • small town becksmall town beck Posts: 6,691
    South of Seattle wrote:
    Key word: Maybe

    :D
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    I'll be nice and say 4....maybe. :D

    You boys are clever :eek: :p or at least you think you are ;)

    GO CANADA GO!!!!
  • vedderfan10vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    small town beck wrote:
    You boys are clever :eek: :p or at least you think you are ;)

    GO CANADA GO!!!!

    C'mon - remember Perdita whatshername who all our hopes and dreams were pinned on for track and field gold? Look what happened! She tripped on the FIRST hurdle, and that was HER event....I still laugh about that. Only in Canada? Pity....

    If it aint winter events, we don't exactly shine...although we did get 22 medals in Atlanta...
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  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    Looking at the last 5 Olympics, Canada has won 3,7,3,3 and 3 gold medals respectively. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say 3. ;)
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Nah, this is the summer Olympics not the Winter one. ;)
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • small town becksmall town beck Posts: 6,691
    Vedderfan10 wrote:
    C'mon - remember Perdita whatshername who all our hopes and dreams were pinned on for track and field gold? Look what happened! She tripped on the FIRST hurdle, and that was HER event....I still laugh about that. Only in Canada? Pity....

    If it aint winter events, we don't exactly shine...although we did get 22 medals in Atlanta...


    Who was that Simon guy in 2000? He was SO famouse that year... oh well c'est la vie :p
  • vedderfan10vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    small town beck wrote:
    Who was that Simon guy in 2000? He was SO famouse that year... oh well c'est la vie :p

    The biker? Simon Whitfield? I think he's in Beijing this year... and we've won a couple of medals in Mountain Biking and such...What was that girl's name from Manitoba? Clara? She won two in Atlanta, no? And we've won a couple of medals in diving and swimming. But we have no BIG athletes to watch for this go round..

    Anyway...I shall update this as the games go on..and offer a critique of the events I watch.
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  • small town becksmall town beck Posts: 6,691
    Vedderfan10 wrote:
    The biker? Simon Whitfield? I think he's in Beijing this year... and we've won a couple of medals in Mountain Biking and such...What was that girl's name from Manitoba? Clara? She won two in Atlanta, no? And we've won a couple of medals in diving and swimming. But we have no BIG athletes to watch for this go round..

    Anyway...I shall update this as the games go on..and offer a critique of the events I watch.


    THANK YOU!!! That guy had his fifteen minutes here for sure. Cool that he is back again. Clara yes... wasn't her sister in some crazy car accident this year? Can't recall her last name..

    I usually just watch the winter ones and then only hockey... oh how sweet was Salt Lake City ;) don't mention Torino though :o although seeing PJ in Torino was sweet :)
  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    Clara Hughes
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    hmm how many medals will canada win? dont know but im gonna guess that it wont be as many as AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!! :p:D:D
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  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    Vedderfan10 wrote:
    The biker? Simon Whitfield? I think he's in Beijing this year... and we've won a couple of medals in Mountain Biking and such...What was that girl's name from Manitoba? Clara? She won two in Atlanta, no? And we've won a couple of medals in diving and swimming. But we have no BIG athletes to watch for this go round..

    Anyway...I shall update this as the games go on..and offer a critique of the events I watch.

    yes, clara hughes. both an olympic speed skater and cyclist. :) two bronze medals in cycling, and one bronze in speed skating...the only Canadian, and just the fourth athlete in history, to win medals in both winter and summer games.
  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    ...oh, and we will win no medals as half our athletes will return home early with illnesses and breathing problems. the rest will pass out during events, struggling against the chinese "x factor"...the toxic brown clouds of smog that they have made their own athletes immune to by implanting them with breathing apparatuses.
  • NY PJ1NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    Its The Summer Olympics = No Hockey
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    i would peg the over/under at about 12 medals ...

    i thinks SI has Canada winning 14 ...
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    small town beck wrote:
    THANK YOU!!! That guy had his fifteen minutes here for sure. Cool that he is back again.
    He also won a world cup event on the weekend.
  • saveuplifesaveuplife Posts: 1,173
    Zero.
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    saveuplife wrote:
    Zero.
    Shouldn't you be getting banned from football games?
  • saveuplifesaveuplife Posts: 1,173
    Rygar wrote:
    Shouldn't you be getting banned from football games?


    The truth stings a bit, doesn't it? ;)
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    saveuplife wrote:
    The truth stings a bit, doesn't it? ;)
    I dunno, I've never gotten banned from a sporting event before...
  • saveuplifesaveuplife Posts: 1,173
    Rygar wrote:
    I dunno, I've never gotten banned from a sporting event before...


    Neither have I.

    But, Canada has not finished with a medal plenty of times. Because they just aren't very good.
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    saveuplife wrote:
    Neither have I.

    But, Canada has not finished with a medal plenty of times. Because they just aren't very good.
    Our steroids just can't compete, I guess.
  • saveuplifesaveuplife Posts: 1,173
    Rygar wrote:
    Our steroids just can't compete, I guess.

    That or they just aren't very athletic. Yea, but it's probably the roids. ;)
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    saveuplife wrote:
    That or they just aren't very athletic. Yea, but it's probably the roids. ;)
    Do you come up with this stuff on your own?
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    the thread title is medals not golds - i don't recall when canada was shut out of a medal in any olympics ...
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