congrats to Canada for that Pretty amazing with 14 gold medals! We got 23 medals and I'm pretty happy with that. Small country with only 4.5 mill people.
Norway has won more Winter Games medals than any other nation. Last week it became the first country to win 100 Olympic gold medals, and Tuesday it hit the 300-medal milestone (the U.S. is second on the all-time list with dozens fewer.)
What makes its performance hard to fathom, however, is that Norway has only 4.7 million people to choose from. It's as if the American team finished third in Vancouver after limiting the athlete pool to people living in metropolitan Detroit.
congrats to Canada for that Pretty amazing with 14 gold medals! We got 23 medals and I'm pretty happy with that. Small country with only 4.5 mill people.
you guys always tear shit up at the winters, hitting way above your weight. i like to remind my canadian friends of this when they get all cocky about our own haul.
14 gold, pretty awesome (and the most ever gold in a single games). all this talk of population, the US has over 300 million people, we have around 30 million.
Yep, Canada for sure rocked these games, and our 14 gold medal record could very well last a long long time (since it took some 80+ years before it was set), but NORWAY is the overall all-time kings of the winter games for sure. They definitely always bring their A game in nearly every event.
But we Canadians are the GODS of hockey. Make no mistake about that.
Norway has won more Winter Games medals than any other nation. Last week it became the first country to win 100 Olympic gold medals, and Tuesday it hit the 300-medal milestone (the U.S. is second on the all-time list with dozens fewer.)
What makes its performance hard to fathom, however, is that Norway has only 4.7 million people to choose from. It's as if the American team finished third in Vancouver after limiting the athlete pool to people living in metropolitan Detroit.
wasn't the olympic winter games only really hosted in the scandinavian countries for most of the life of the winter olympics? i was looking at the roster of the 50s olympics.. only swedish, finnish, and Norwegian..
14 gold, pretty awesome (and the most ever gold in a single games). all this talk of population, the US has over 300 million people, we have around 30 million.
True but, how many of those 30 million live in areas with no snow?
Norway has won more Winter Games medals than any other nation. Last week it became the first country to win 100 Olympic gold medals, and Tuesday it hit the 300-medal milestone (the U.S. is second on the all-time list with dozens fewer.)
What makes its performance hard to fathom, however, is that Norway has only 4.7 million people to choose from. It's as if the American team finished third in Vancouver after limiting the athlete pool to people living in metropolitan Detroit.
On a side note, we should really be throwing props to the ones who really pulled through for us this. Our ladies! Seriously, our Canadian girls fucking cleaned up. Big big big props to the women's hockey team too, winning Olympic gold really is the top of the game for women right now, so that's a HUGE win. Men's gold we absolutely have to win, but really, after it's all said and done no one cares anymore, the Stanley Cup is coming!
I saw on the news that the Russian pres. is calling for some firings because they won so few golds! yikes!
They really dropped down in the standings that's for sure. I have no doubt that Russia is going to go nuts with their athletic programs over the next 4 years and come out swinging hard at the games in Sochi. They as the host nation will really be wanting to "own the podium", so everyone who's thinking of competing there, watch out. Russian bear is awakening, and he is pissed.
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