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Originally Posted by MaskTVMaura
Canada should OWN the Winter Olympic games... our winters are cold enough so that we should be highly competitive in EVERY sport. I'm definitely grateful for every medal we win... but we aren't nearly tapping the athletic potential of our people.
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Agreed, but one: there are plenty of countries that have cold winters and as many or more people than we have,
and two: Canada doesn't seem to want or be able to pump the kind of money needed into athletics like the USA does. There's more money there now than there was oh say 20 years ago for the athletes, but it's nowhere near enough.
Anyway, back to hockey....
I haven't checked the upcoming schedule at all but I do hope that Canada gets to play teams like finland, Slovakia, Latvia... but I guess they only get to play so many games each. A Canada-Finland game would be great though. I always like watching Selanne play, from way back when he was a Winnipeg Jet. :D