Canada Got Their First Gold Medal in 2010 Olympics

[the.unseen.]

If nobody in America cared about hockey, I don't think you guys would have 24/30 teams in the NHL.

its because we have a lot more people in the usa then canada and hockey is probably the 4th most watched sport in usa behind football, basketball, and baseball.

and NOT after soccer, nobody gives 2 shits about soccer.

MLS is shit and hardly watched, but the premier league/la liga/champions league is very popular in the US. im pretty sure the champions league final is more watched than w/e final hockey has

Yea because it's such a great accomplishment for a one game final to out view a best of seven game series.
Btw: maybe if you were talking about the World Cup final you might be correct, but not a lot of North Americans care too much about Champions League, as they do with the World Cup.

[EvGa]

I'm not gonna pretend I know or care who is in the olympics, but GJ to whoever won in the events.

Women's speed skating is only entertaining to me because of their skin-tight, shiny body suits and the thunderthighs that bulge out of them.

Yes.

[JMU]

i thought men speed skating was the most intense and most interesting. Watching the Olympic closing ceremony instead of doing school work ha. I love olympic opening/closing ceremony, the music they play and everything is so peaceful haha. I don't think anyone can top china crazy opening though...

[CrimsonNuker]

Oh and its funny how we rank medal count by total medals won. Basically america thinks that a gold = bronze. Fail logic

lol dude its call a medal count, not GOLD MEDAL count. So your logic=fail logic. And who said America think gold = bronze? btw if you go to the official vacouver olympic website and look at the medal count they dont put the country with most gold at the top. I guess your calling canada stupid and has fail logic to..

huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winte ... edal_table

[cpinney]

well in his defense thats wikipedia. personally i would rather have the best overall medal count then the most gold medals.

[TheDrop]

MLS is shit and hardly watched, but the premier league/la liga/champions league is very popular in the US. im pretty sure the champions league final is more watched than w/e final hockey has

im positive it doesn't.

http://www.andrewsstarspage.com/index.p ... n_ratings/

http://www.epltalk.com/american-tv-view ... llion/2182

2009 nhl final got a 3.1 rating champions league got a .8

Isnt the .8 rating for the 2008 CL final though (2009 cl was more watched, globally atleast), and the ratings only for ESPN. Either ways i get what ur saying, and i cant find any US-only viewer statistic for the 2009 final, so meh.

@unseen; the WC is every 4 years so it cant be compared w/ an anual event, but still, it shows people in the US still give 2 shits about soccer ;p

BTW, i think the olympics medals table should be point based, something like 3 points for gold/2 points for silver/1 point of bronze, or something like that, instead of making silver/bronze medals totally useless or making gold = bronze.

[Evil_Venom]

Oh and its funny how we rank medal count by total medals won. Basically america thinks that a gold = bronze. Fail logic

lol dude its call a medal count, not GOLD MEDAL count. So your logic=fail logic. And who said America think gold = bronze? btw if you go to the official vacouver olympic website and look at the medal count they dont put the country with most gold at the top. I guess your calling canada stupid and has fail logic to..

huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winte ... edal_table

I say that they should give a point value to each of the medals. For example a gold is worth 3 points a silver is worth 2 and a bronze is worth 1. If that was the case USA would have 70 points Germany would have 62 and Canada would have 61.

I feel that this way would be much simpler and less controversial.


EDIT: Fail post the dude before me said this already

[EvGa]

Canada broke a gold medal record, congrats.

America broke an overall medal record, congrats.

The Olympics turned out well for both of us, Canada did well hosting it. Congrats to all, hurray.

[Majorharper]

well in his defense thats wikipedia. personally i would rather have the best overall medal count then the most gold medals.

Pathetic...

Simple and easy to understand:

Gold medal worth (in points): 10

Silver medal worth : 5

Bronze medal worth : 2

30 bronze medals: 60points

14 gold medals: 140points


LOL at you cpinney, you a typical american... the more the better...

That imo is damned stupid, i'd rather win 14 gold then 30+++ bronze.

Canada won, and by far, the winter olypmics 2010, not just because I am a canadian, but logically and the most reasonably too. If USA would have gotten 14 gold and canada 30++ bronze then i would have said USA won!

Olympics have always been about how many golds have been won, not by how many medals...

The way your thinking right now is that america for example have 200+ atheletes, and ofcourse they are gonna win many medals in all sorts, because they have so many more atheletes, and then other countries which have less amounts of atheletes but win more gold (AS AN EXAMPLE) im not saying its true since canada doesnt have much less atheletes.. anyways, what im trying to say is that since a smaller country cant get as many medals as a bigger country, yet they manage to win more gold, therefor loose the olympics because they couldnt have more atheletes in each dicipline, thats ridicoulous...

imo canada won the olympics and they beat a record of the amounts of gold...

sry usa you can kick our asses in the summer games, but accept the defeat this time...

[CrimsonNuker]

well in his defense thats wikipedia. personally i would rather have the best overall medal count then the most gold medals.

Still, on the official site, it ranks them by total medal count, you could go onto the medal page and rank them by whatever you want, but like Jstar said, the IOC ranks them from gold count, then silver count, then bronze count to determine the winner.

[Majorharper]

well in his defense thats wikipedia. personally i would rather have the best overall medal count then the most gold medals.

Still, on the official site, it ranks them by total medal count, you could go onto the medal page and rank them by whatever you want, but like Jstar said, the IOC ranks them from gold count, then silver count, then bronze count to determine the winner.

No you didn't realize that you can only rank them by how many golds? and not by how many silvr nor bronze? hmmm....

[CrimsonNuker]

well in his defense thats wikipedia. personally i would rather have the best overall medal count then the most gold medals.

Still, on the official site, it ranks them by total medal count, you could go onto the medal page and rank them by whatever you want, but like Jstar said, the IOC ranks them from gold count, then silver count, then bronze count to determine the winner.

No you didn't realize that you can only rank them by how many golds? and not by how many silvr nor bronze? hmmm....

I stand corrected.

[cpinney]

either way it was a great Olympics for both USA and Canada.

[Blindfire]

Seriously, who gives a shit about how the medal ranking system works. Well done to both.

[EvGa]

Seriously, who gives a shit about how the medal ranking system works. Well done to both.

That's why.

[Jstar1]

well done to all the countries that medeled. And I'm glad canada won that hockey game, losing at their own game would have been pathetic. The winning goal by crosby, you couldn't make a better storybook out of this.

I agree that a point system would be even fairer than the IOC system.

[Skyve]

U.S.A Reaction ;

[EvGa]

^^ First I lulz, then I serioused.

Then I lulzed again.

[the.unseen.]

well in his defense thats wikipedia. personally i would rather have the best overall medal count then the most gold medals.

Still, on the official site, it ranks them by total medal count, you could go onto the medal page and rank them by whatever you want, but like Jstar said, the IOC ranks them from gold count, then silver count, then bronze count to determine the winner.

No you didn't realize that you can only rank them by how many golds? and not by how many silvr nor bronze? hmmm....

Technically silver and bronze do mean something if a country is tied in golds.

[Skyve]

Facebook groups after we won the gold medals are hilarious xD

"hey usa imma let you finish but CANADA HAS THE MOST GOLD MEDALS OF ALL TIME"

[EvGa]

Don't get too cocky.

USA total gold count: 87
Canada total gold count: 65

For winter, 929, 58 for summer.

Just saying. But I did see a funny one, "USA Wins Total Medal Count, But All Your Gold Are Belong To Canada" during a google search.

[Skyve]

Don't get too cocky.

USA total gold count: 87
Canada total gold count: 65

For winter, 929, 58 for summer.

Just saying. But I did see a funny one, "USA Wins Total Medal Count, But All Your Gold Are Belong To Canada" during a google search.

Nice ones, Im not the cocky person though, its all from Facebook groups

[EvGa]

Nice ones, Im not the cocky person though, its all from Facebook groups

lol, that's what I meant, not calling you cocky.

[xzaz]

Well done Canada, we (the Dutch) where 10th with 4 golden medals... and that for a small country.. Netherlands pwn +1

[JMU]

whats all this bragging about? who care who wins more gold lol, I didnt know you can win the whole olympic. Anyways we all know america is best at sports overall, can we all agree on that? my case is closed:D

[BaronSengir]

Don't get too cocky.

USA total gold count: 87
Canada total gold count: 65

For winter, 929, 58 for summer.

Just saying. But I did see a funny one, "USA Wins Total Medal Count, But All Your Gold Are Belong To Canada" during a google search.

you do know that usa has about 400m people vs canada about 35m making your medal count look shitty for the us

[antics]

sucks the win canada got mattered but the one usa got was w.e really

[Amro]

Well done Canada, we (the Dutch) where 10th with 4 golden medals... and that for a small country.. Netherlands pwn +1

slovakia pwn +2

[Reise]

"USA is full of fat, ignorant idiots!"

"Yeah? Well look at these medals, son."

"USA is stupid!"

[Jstar1]

"USA is full of fat, ignorant idiots!"

"Yeah? Well look at these medals, son."

"USA is stupid!"

Tell me about it.

Canada is big on winter sports and theres something called home turf advantage. Why am I not surprised they did really well this year?