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Originally Posted by Dwils01
How do you think Canada did at The Olympics?
I was expecting a little better than they did but overall not too bad. I thought we would have a couple more gold than we did. Brad Jacobs is from my hometown so I'm happy he won gold.
I predicted at the beginning of the games with my friends that Canada would finish with 26 medals, (7G, 8S, 11B). They finished a little below my prediction but not too far off.
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I wouldn't be too hung up on our medal count.
Sometimes I feel like the winter Olympics exist so that some tiny European countries can still put up numbers.
Norway won 28 medals in events that, in some way, involved cross country skiing, either in XC skiing itself, nordic combined or biathlon. There were 26 events in these 3 areas alone in 2026; in 1988 the Calgary Olympics had 44 events total.
The Dutch won 20 medals, all of them in some variation of speed skating.
If Canada were a Western European country, then we'd probably have figured out a way to lobby the IOC over the years to include every niche variation of hockey that's ever been played: shinny, spongee, ringette, broomball, etc.
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