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Originally Posted by CrazyKell
I see your point. I'm not in the US though so I wasn't aware that team sports aren't a big deal.
You do alright in individual medals though no?
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Think of it though? And this is not a dig on their athletes. But to be conservative, ill say they have 5x the talent pool we do. We each have 8 Gold (and were quite likely to get 2 in curling today), they have 12 silver and twelve bronze. We have 6 silver and three bronze and a shitload of 4ths and 5ths that coulda gone either way. Both countries lost medals that were almost expected, and both countries support athletes in college that compete for their country in the olympics.
In fact, most of the womens hockey team from the USA, come up here play all winter in the Canadian womens pro league.