FINAL!!! Canada has 18 medals! 3 Gold 9 Silver 6 Bronze
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EagerBeaver said:
Which proves my theory that all beavers are born swimmers.
Speaking of beavers, I sure haven't had one of those for a while now. The Doc is overdue!
SexyNadya said:Thanks to the WOMEN to get the Party Started !!!
I'd rather watch women wrestling in a stripclub!!
SexyNadya said:Wooow ! Smoke Meats for Diner Dates and now mud wrestling for women ! Nice !
Doc you're giving a whole new meaning to "" romance "" !!!
I know, i'm a romantic-at-heart & a true cordon-bleu.
Truly a born-romantic & a connoisseur of the finest cuisine....doesn't it show?
Now, back to the topic....i predict a gold medal for Canada in Trampoline. Go Canada go!!
Doc Holliday said:I know, i'm a romantic-at-heart & a true cordon-bleu.
Truly a born-romantic & a connoisseur of the finest cuisine....doesn't it show?
Now, back to the topic....i predict a gold medal for Canada in Trampoline. Go Canada go!!
Yes Doc !! You're alllllll of that and a bag of Chips !!!
!!!Trampoline ! Imagine that with my DD's !!
It would unfluence SOME of the judges !
Whoa sweetie,SexyNadya said:Yes Doc !! You're alllllll of that and a bag of Chips !!!
Trampoline ! Imagine that with my DD's !!
It would unfluence SOME of the judges !
Such a event could cause a seismic anomaly and throw off the Richter scale. So if you try this good luck...just make sure to film it from all possible angles...
.Boom boom boom,
Korbel
Korbel said:Whoa sweetie,
Such a event could cause a seismic anomaly and throw off the Richter scale. So if you try this good luck...just make sure to film it from all possible angles...
Boom boom boom,
Korbel
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Hi Korbie !!!
... from all possible angles !! lol !!
The CBC would need to have it X Rated !!!
bond_james_bond said:
Looking at it now we have 10% of the population of the US and approximately 10% of their medaL count. We will likely do disproportionately better in the winter games. How can one be unhappy about that?
I don't think anyone in Canada or anywhere else sits around and says "I have $10, should I spend it on the Olympics or Cancer research?" I think an emphasis on sports is extremely important in promoting a healthy lifestyle.
Where the Olympics got f*cked up was in all the doping and all the silly judged events like syncro swimming, diving and all the gymnastics.
Two most dominating atheletes so far have been Phelps and Bolt.
Possum Trot said:
Hello Possum Trot,
I am really not trying to be some arrogant American elitist here, but when talking about "dominating athletes" showboat Bolt doesn't belong in the same sentence with Phelps. There's an long list of Olympic athletes of many countries who do, but one of them isn't Bolt.
Cheers,
Korbel
Korbel said:
I said dominating not likeable
Since I'm not Jamaican I have no particular axe to grind....dominating to me means that when you watch the events you realize that no one else in the competition has much of a chance of winning. Bolt barely broke a sweat in the 100. He coasted at the end and still set a world record. He will probably win the 200 as well. You may not like him but that is something else entirely.
Possum Trot said:I said dominating not likeable
Since I'm not Jamaican I have no particular axe to grind....dominating to me means that when you watch the events you realize that no one else in the competition has much of a chance of winning. Bolt barely broke a sweat in the 100. He coasted at the end and still set a world record. He will probably win the 200 as well. You may not like him but that is something else entirely.
Hello Possum Trot,
It's true I did not like what Bolt did in the 100. First, I believe in total effort...trying to be your best. He could have set a record that might have stood like that of Bob Beaman's incredible long jump. But he chumped out. Then there is the aspect of class. Turning to the others and flaunting himself even before the race was over was just disgraceful. Sportmanship may not bring metals in itself, but honor in competition is not just a joke. But, with all that the simple fact is you are putting him on the same level as a legend where he doesn't belong. To be there you have to win over time with dominance, longevity, and class. But where Bolt fails to meet Phelps most of all is in giving HIS BEST! That's a cheat of himself and everyone. Remember that one hundreth of a second win by Phelps. That's what legends do. Phelps has 14 gold medals, and more, over two Olympics: and may be in London in 2012 too...SPECTACULAR!
By the way, check out the notes on Greg Louganis who was forced to miss a chance becuase of the 1980 U.S. boycott ( I hated ) and stil totally dominated 1984 and 1988 after winning his first medal in 1976....in 1988 after hitting his head on the diving board in the preliminaries. Now that's true legend.
Here are the greatest Olypians (the legend's)...according to one website at least:
http://www.fanbay.net/olympics/bestathletes.htm
Top Greatest Olympians of All-Time
There is no particular order to the list. It is a listing of the best olympic athletes and sports competitors in the history of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympic Games (1896-present).
Mark Spitz (USA). Spitz is tied for the most gold medals collected in the history of the Olympics. And he won 7 gold medals at the 1972 Olympics, also an all-time record
Nadia Comaneci (Romania). The Romanian gymnast has won 5 gold medals and 9 total. Comanechi is essentially the definition of 'Perfect 10'. The Olympic scoreboard wasn't even capable of displaying a '10', and all of that changed after Nadia.
Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (Soviet Union). Arguably the best athlete in the history of the Olympics. Latynina won a total of 18 medals including 9 golds in her Olympic gymnastic career.
Nikolay Andrianov (Soviet Union). Won 15 medals in his career.
Alexei Nemov (Russia). Nemov won 6 medals in Atlanta in 1996 and won another 6 in Sydney in 2000.
Takashi Ono (Japan). Ono won a total of 13 medals. He won his first at the 1952 Olympics and won a team gold at the 1964 Olympic games.
Edoardo Mangiarotti (Italy). A fencing world champion for decades. Mangiarotti won a total of 13 Olympic medals in his lifetime.
Boris Shakhlin (Soviet Union). Between 1956 and 1964 Shakhlin won 13 different Olympic medals in gymnastics. His best event was the pommelled horse.
Paavo Nurmi (Finland). Finland's Paavo Nurni won a total of 9 Olympic gold medals as a runner in the 1920's.
Sawao Kato (Japan). Competed in gymnastic events in the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Olympics winning a total of 12 medals, 8 of them gold.
Ray Ewry (USA). The best and most memorable athlete from the very first modern Olympic games. Ewry won 8 gold medals right around the turn of the century. He won 2 more, but they were at the 1906 'Intermediate' Games, which are not official.
Matthew Biondi (USA). One of the U.S.A.'s best Olympic athletes ever. Biondi won 11 total medals. The first coming in 1984, and his last Olympic medal in 1992. He was at his prime in the 1998 Summer Olympics winning 5 gold medals.
Carl Lewis (USA). He's got his own flashy web site. Enough said.
Victor Chukarin (Soviet Union). Won 11 medals total after competing in both the 1952 and 1956 Olympics. Seven of Chukarin's gymnastic medals were gold.
Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovokia). A sensational gymnast (Vera won 11 medals in 1964 and 1968) and a remarkable life story (those were challenging times in Czechoslovokia).
Kristin Otto (Germany). Won 6 gold medals in swimming at the 1988 Olympics-- which was a record for women.
Michael Phelps (United States). In the 2004 summer olympics, Michael Phelps won 8 medals in swimming, including 6 gold medals.
Oscar Swahn (Sweden). Won a medal at the 1920 Olympics, at the age of 72. The oldest athlete ever to win a medal at the Olympics.
Jesse Owens. American, and African-American, Jesse Owens went to the 1936 Olympics held in Hitler's Germany. And Owens won, a then record, 4 gold medals in track and field.
Torvill and Dean (UK). Britain’s famed “Torvill and Dean” (Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean) won the ice dancing pairs competition. They stand alone as among the top performers in the history of pairs figure skating.
Edwin Moses (USA). Moses was one of the best athletes in the history of the 400 meter hurdles in and out of Olympic competition. In 1976, he won the event going away. He won over 100 consecutive events leading up to his next Olympic event in 1984. And, despite recovering from an injury, won the race in front of the home crowd.
Greg Louganis (USA). Louganis won his first Olympic medal in 1976 at the age of 16. But he had to wait until 1984 to return to the Olympics due to the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games in 1980. He won two golds in 1984 and two more in 1988. His 1988 victory is remembered because Louganis had an accident where he hit the board in preliminary competition. Had the United States participated in the 1980 Olympics, Louganis would surely have won additional medals.
Olga Korbut (Soviet Union). Voted Female Athlete of the Year in 1972 by the AP. She was widely popular around the globe for her wide, big, bright smile. She won 3 gold medals and a silver medal at the Munich Summer Olympics.
Alberto Tomba (Italy). Tomba is without question the best downhill skier in the history of Italy. He won medals in 1988 and 1994.
Cheers,
Korbel
In my mind Jean Claude Killy was superior to Tomba I am maybe saying that because i met him in Switzerland but look at his record He won the gold in 3 different event in Grenoble
I think he's referring to the most dominant performances at these games. And he's right. Plus I, and all the analysts I've listened to, disagree on your assessment of Bolt. You have to consider that the overwhelming majority of sprinters are complete arrogant assholes. Yeah, Bolt showboats, but he's more like a big immature kid having fun. And most agree that he's a breath of fresh air on the discipline. He could have ran 9.60 or sub 9.60, who cares, he'll do it eventually. He wasn't obsessed about time, he was just happy to win. And he's not one bit arrogant in his interviews. Another breath of fresh air. And yes, he was truly dominant, as dominant as Phelps was in any of his races.
I am not sure how Eric Heiden got left off that list. He won 5 gold medals!!!!! All of the speedskating events then offered, both short and longer distances!!!!
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Hello all,
Remember I am certainly not saying this list is in any way definitive. I don't understand why some like Thorpe, Killy, Heiden are not there, and I am sure other worthy athletes are missing. I also just posted what MIGHT be a more definitive list with a point system that is explained for reference on a new thread. Yeah, it could have been here. But I thought it deserved more notice.
Cheers,
Korbel
Remember I am certainly not saying this list is in any way definitive. I don't understand why some like Thorpe, Killy, Heiden are not there, and I am sure other worthy athletes are missing. I also just posted what MIGHT be a more definitive list with a point system that is explained for reference on a new thread. Yeah, it could have been here. But I thought it deserved more notice.
Cheers,
Korbel
Korbel said:
Wow lot's of research. Again I was just talking about these games so far and I said dominating not deserving.
I agree with your list of most deserving Olympians although I would add Owens and drop Carl Lewis who was the Oscar Mayer of hot dogs in his time. I also think he was dirty although he was never caught.
Possum Trot said:
Hello Possum Trot,
Yeah, I tend to get overblown...maybe often.
As for drug suspicions, we all have them. But it's too easy and cheap to accuse someone without any proof. This kind of thing is worthy of desperate lawyers with no case, and no honor, trying to inflict doubt on the public mind.
Useless,
Korbel
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