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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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And Canada takes Gold in mens hockey 3-2 in OT, breaking the All time record for most gold medals in a single Olympics. -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Thomas Fjellstrom said: You know that only $117,000,000 (cad) over 5 years was spent on the "Own The Podium" program right? In fairness, we probably did pay for it ... -- |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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23yrold3yrold said: In fairness, we probably did pay for it ... Its not the billions Matthew claimed append: 7:6 gold:other medal ratio for Canada. -- |
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mEmO
Member #1,124
March 2001
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You probably spent more than Norway did from 1901 to this date in just the last 4 years, and still we have more gold medals than both of you - combined! [edit] --------------------------------------------- |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Norway has 9 gold. Canada has 14. I'm pretty sure 14 is greater than 9. -- |
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mEmO
Member #1,124
March 2001
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Just to clarify: I meant the total number of gold medals won since the first Olympic Winter games in 1901. And yeah, these games haven't been kind to us; with atrocities like some nasty Swedes stealing our cross country medals. [edit] --------------------------------------------- |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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mEmO said: That was just pitiful, really. Sadly Canada was "favorite" for several events that we failed to even place in -- |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Own the Podium. We clearly bought our gold medals... -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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bamccaig said: Own the Podium. We clearly bought our gold medals... And the US bought all of its bronze medals. What exactly is the difference? All countries invest in getting medals at the games. -- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Canada holds on for a 3-2 OT win! They always came energized after intermissions, being fully refreshed from quaffing a few beers! But it wasn't enough to overtake the USA in the standings, ending a disappointing Olympics. USA's hockey team finished with 16 points to Canada's 14 points! They should have spent some of their billions on the hockey team. USA finishes with the most medals ever! WE RULE THE WORLD!!! |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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And Canada beat you in the two stats that matter the most. Gold in hockey, and most golds ever. I can sense the frustration -- |
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Goalie Ca
Member #2,579
July 2002
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canada got around half the gold medals awarded ------------- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Goalie Ca said: canada got around half the gold medals awarded Did they black out all of the events that Canada sucked at (i.e., all but 14 of them)? There were around 85 events. USA medaled in 37 of them. That is nearly half! Canada got about 15% of the golds. That's a far cry from 50%. Unless, you are counting 30 medals (or whatever) for each hockey team. In which case USA, got more than half of all medals. Maybe next time (if Canada is ever allowed to host another Olympics) you should spend some of the own the podium billions on a) figuring out how to light a torch, b) some padding so as not to kill people, c) a real police force that can prevent a crazy nut from entering a VIP area uncontested, and d) more beer. |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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^ This. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Quote: ^ This. You realize he's trolling right? -- |
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And our total investment in "Own the Podium" probably matches what was spent on the US Hockey team the past 1-2 years 
got knocked out by a couple thousandths of a second or some such. And then theres womans curling 
