Official Torino 2006 thread

[Platypus]

Most Memorable Event:
- Hedrick winning the 5000m on the first day

Least Memorable Event:
-Nordic Combined (only sport I didn't watch)

Top Five Stories:
1. American Mens Speed Skating Dominance (3-3-1)
2. Ohno, Ahn, and Lee battling on short track (9 of 12 medals)
3. Bode getting drunk and going 0 for 5 (Freedom Fighter)
4. US Snowboarding Dominance (3-3-1)
5. Ice Hockey let down (Though I had picked Finland in the final)

You're an idiot.

Obviously the biggest story is Cindy Klassen winning five medals.  That's almost as many medals as the entire "dominance" of the US men's speedskating team.

Cindy who? She got very little coverage outside of her races on NBC here in the States. I'm sure your list of top five moments would be very different from mine and Jake's (Klassen, most medals ever for Canada, men's hockey failings, men's curling gold, etc). I'm also sure we could argue until we're blue in the face about the best Olympic moments, but it's a matter of perspective.

Well, really, it's a matter of lack of perspective.

Top 5 for me:

1. Jacobellis's crash
2. Norway's lack of Gold
3. Austria's drug problems
4. Bode Miller getting zilch
5. And, i've got to add this, Alisa Camplin winning a medal just months after knee surgery.

Seriously though, number 5 would be the Italian team winning gold in the team cross country skiing event.

[Platypus]

To my mind. the most memorable event of Torino 2006 was the deadly glare from the Italian ice dancer after her parter dropped her.

That was pretty deadly; certainly a contended for the top five.

Re:Klassen-not enough of them were gold. She could have won 10 silver and it wouldn't have been all that memorable. It'd probably be more memorable because of the lack of gold, actually.

[Platypus]

To my mind. the most memorable event of Torino 2006 was the deadly glare from the Italian ice dancer after her parter dropped her.

That was pretty deadly; certainly a contended for the top five.

Re:Klassen-not enough of them were gold. She could have won 10 silver and it wouldn't have been all that memorable. It'd probably be more memorable because of the lack of gold, actually.

You're just jealous because she got more medals than Australia has in the last two Olympics.

I certainly hope you've stocked up on enough renditions of "O, Canada" for the year; They will be few and far between whilst Australia's winning 90-odd golds in a couple of weeks.

BTW, the last two olympics are Torino and Athens. I wonder what the results would be if you considered just those two

[Platypus]

To my mind. the most memorable event of Torino 2006 was the deadly glare from the Italian ice dancer after her parter dropped her.

That was pretty deadly; certainly a contended for the top five.

Re:Klassen-not enough of them were gold. She could have won 10 silver and it wouldn't have been all that memorable. It'd probably be more memorable because of the lack of gold, actually.

You're just jealous because she got more medals than Australia has in the last two Olympics.

I certainly hope you've stocked up on enough renditions of "O, Canada" for the year; They will be few and far between whilst Australia's winning 90-odd golds in a couple of weeks.

BTW, the last two olympics are Torino and Athens. I wonder what the results would be if you considered just those two

Well, we won 36 medals if you combine the two Olympics. I am positive Aussie has as beat there. But, it's not like any of the Summer Olympic events really matter

Well, to make it a bit more even, we'll make it the last two winter games as well as Athens.

Athens:

CANADA
3 Gold
6 Silver
3 Bronze

21st Place; 12 medals total; 24 points.

AUSTRALIA
17 Gold
16 Silver
16 Bronze

4th Place; 49 medals total; 99 points.

Salt Lake City:

CANADA
7 Gold
3 Silver
7 Bronze

4th Place; 17 medals total; 34 points.

AUSTRALIA
2 Gold
0 Silver
0 Bronze

15th place; 2 medals total; 6 points.

Torino:

CANADA
7 Gold
10 Silver
7 Bronze

5th Place; 24 medals total; 48 points.

AUSTRALIA
1 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze

17th Place; 2 medals total; 4 points.


Total medals:

CANADA
17 Gold
19 Silver
17 Bronze

53 medals total; 106 points total.

AUSTRALIA
20 Gold
16 Silver
17 Bronze

53 medals total; 109 points total.

So really, if you give Canada the benefit of two winter games versus just the one summer games, it's pretty even. But we still win

[Platypus]

Well, if you wanted to be really accurate about it all, you'd have to include things like sports funding, ski-able slopes and snow coverage, etc; and the fact tat 200 countries compete in the summer games versus 80 in the winter games.

[Platypus]

Well, Sydney did offer to host 2004 if Athens wasn't ready...


There have only been two host cities, ever, that didn't have a question mark over their heads about their readiness, basically until they started.

Sydney and Olympia.

[Platypus]

Well, Sydney did offer to host 2004 if Athens wasn't ready...


There have only been two host cities, ever, that didn't have a question mark over their heads about their readiness, basically until they started.

Sydney and Olympia.

Which would seem to prove that Australians are two millennia behind the times.

That or that Greeks can build stuff, just not in Athens.

[Platypus]

That'll happen around about the time we get snowfall covering the whole country.

I can't wait for snow in Darwin