Canada in 2016 Rio Olympics
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I don't have a problem with sweet Penny as flag bearer but Gillis should be at the front. The Marathon is one of the three prestige sports of the Olympics, the others are the 100m Dash and the Decathlon.
Don't know anything about Gillis but what he has done cannot be minimized.
Don't know anything about Gillis but what he has done cannot be minimized.
Fingers and Toes, 40 Things we share...with these incredible athletes that have done us proud over the last 17 days. My girl Melissa ran her race last night, and regardless of the position one has on the ethics, she gave it her best and against the odds set a Canadian record and showed us COURAGE!!!! Best opening act the Hip ever had..!
Congrats to all and to all Canadians who gave their support to this bunch of 315 athletes. Here's hoping we are going to be Blowing High Dough through Own the Podium for Japan...! :canada::bolt::applause:
Congrats to all and to all Canadians who gave their support to this bunch of 315 athletes. Here's hoping we are going to be Blowing High Dough through Own the Podium for Japan...! :canada::bolt::applause:
I agree. We past his prime rower Adam Van koeverden who spouts off saying it's all about competing.
The problem is simply meeting the qualifying standards is not good enough. It almost seems like many of the mediocre athletes go to the Olympics as an experience and to have a good time. Which is perfectly fine, if Canadian taxpayer's money aren't involved.
Agreed, and they created the Own the Podium (OTP) before the Vancouver Olympics to fund our top medal prospects to convert medals. Montreal '76 was the first and only Olympics where the host nation did not win gold, until we did it AGAIN in Calgary '88.
OTP was a departure from the previous funding programs which funded top 8 world rank athletes to make the finals in swim and track (or quarterfinals in those events). This was hoping once your in the finals, anything can happen and maybe win a medal.
OTP narrowed that to top 4-5 depending on events, to make sure the money went to the medal hopefuls. And it worked for Vancouver and Sochi, and to some extent here in Rio.
As I understand, Canada has some of the most stringent Olympics national standards to qualify for the national team.
The top team sizes were US (540+), Brazil (462), Germany(371), France (369), GB (331), Japan (326), then Canada.
Also, one of the other things that adds to the count is team events like soccer, volleyball, basketball, rugby, handball, water polo, field hockey, etc. Any country that fields several team events, end up having inflated total numbers.
Looking at the return on medal counts by athletes, we got 6 medals in the swim pool from 24 athletes, and 6 in track from 32 athletes. So that's pretty good "return".
But we like our bronze in womens rugby and soccer, but they account for 30+ athletes. That's just the nature of team sports.
But we like our bronze in womens rugby and soccer, but they account for 30+ athletes. That's just the nature of team sports.
By many measures, Canada did very well in Rio with 22 medals, ranking 10th. Most of the credit goes to Penny O with 4 medals and Andre DeGrasse with 3.
Take those 7 away and we have a poor Olympics. The exciting thing is they did this in the marquee events: the anchor sports in track and swimming.
And they are young so the future is bright.
Take those 7 away and we have a poor Olympics. The exciting thing is they did this in the marquee events: the anchor sports in track and swimming.
And they are young so the future is bright.
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I'm sure many have heard, the Olympic medals counts are often a reflection not only of population size, but also prosperity.
(ie. impoverished nations do not have infrastructure or disposable income to send their kids to swim academies)
http://www.medalspercapita.com/#medals-by-gdp:2016
This website ranks medals by GDP, and Jamaica and Kenya came out very well due to their elite sprinter and distance runners, respectively. India was the lowest due to their low standard of living.
Austria and Finland also scored low, but they are winter sporting nations. If you flip over to the Sochi Olympics, they are some of the top ranks.
Where does Canada rank? Just behind China and ahead of the US.
Not bad
(ie. impoverished nations do not have infrastructure or disposable income to send their kids to swim academies)
http://www.medalspercapita.com/#medals-by-gdp:2016
This website ranks medals by GDP, and Jamaica and Kenya came out very well due to their elite sprinter and distance runners, respectively. India was the lowest due to their low standard of living.
Austria and Finland also scored low, but they are winter sporting nations. If you flip over to the Sochi Olympics, they are some of the top ranks.
Where does Canada rank? Just behind China and ahead of the US.
Not bad
Christine Sinclair is not going to retire?
Forget about Canada getting into the gold medal game. As much as the Canadian media has been praising her she wears the goat horns for the loss to Germany. She scored the winning goal against Brazil but Ashley Lawrence back in midfiled had a lot to do with that. Sinclair is the Zlatan Ibrahimovic of women's soccer. Great when she scores but because she plays a one way game, an impediment when she's not.
Forget about Canada getting into the gold medal game. As much as the Canadian media has been praising her she wears the goat horns for the loss to Germany. She scored the winning goal against Brazil but Ashley Lawrence back in midfiled had a lot to do with that. Sinclair is the Zlatan Ibrahimovic of women's soccer. Great when she scores but because she plays a one way game, an impediment when she's not.
Good. Justin Beiber was raised by a single mother. When Justin became rich and famous, his dad re-entered the his life to help him spend his money and fcuk his groupies.
