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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 06:23 AM
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I dont think China was the ONLY communist country there has been an olympics in.


Oh yeah, watching gymnatics ftw
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 06:33 AM
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I can see why you would ask that (has Canada even won a medal?)lol. Just kidding. Seriously though, I think people in general don't have any clue to what the olympics means to society. Come on people, it's a tournament against the world! I think it's great that we can put our political differences aside and just have an nice competitive contest. Not to mention it's fun kicking everyone's ***........
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by AroundMyHorn
I can see why you would ask that (has Canada even won a medal?)lol. Just kidding. .......
bastard! hahaha, for real.. our country doesnt even provide proper funding for our athletes, so we cant expect them to be competitive on a world stage.. Hell, our Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not even show up to the opening ceremonies! WTF IS UP WITH THAT!
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 07:06 AM
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bastard! hahaha, for real.. our country doesnt even provide proper funding for our athletes, so we cant expect them to be competitive on a world stage.. Hell, our Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not even show up to the opening ceremonies! WTF IS UP WITH THAT!
People always forget how small a country Canada is as well. It's a wealthy country, but just doesn't have the depth of talent. We're about 1/10th the size of the US in population. I don't think it's a funding problem really.
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 07:07 AM
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Talent is everywhere, I just think the government is too cheap to put more money into our athletes
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 07:10 AM
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Really? How is a country of 30 million people supposed to produce more absolute medals than a country with over 300 million people? On a per capita basis Canada produced more medals in the Athens games than the US did. Because we are a wealthy country we are able to send many athletes, but champions are very rare, and if you have a bigger pool to pick from, you will have a big advantage.
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by 2TH PWR
People always forget how small a country Canada is as well. It's a wealthy country, but just doesn't have the depth of talent. We're about 1/10th the size of the US in population. I don't think it's a funding problem really.
ah, true enough....
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by 2TH PWR
Really? How is a country of 30 million people supposed to produce more absolute medals than a country with over 300 million people? On a per capita basis Canada produced more medals in the Athens games than the US did. Because we are a wealthy country we are able to send many athletes, but champions are very rare, and if you have a bigger pool to pick from, you will have a big advantage.

not to mention we have more black people......
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Reality350
bastard! hahaha, for real.. our country doesnt even provide proper funding for our athletes, so we cant expect them to be competitive on a world stage.. Hell, our Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not even show up to the opening ceremonies! WTF IS UP WITH THAT!
he had more important things to do ...

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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 08:16 AM
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How does that explain the fact that Australia, and many European countries assrape us on a regular basis? Most of them don't have the massive population advantage the US does.
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