Canada's medal count

[Baitman]

Thought we were going to go the whole games without a medal. We finally got one of each color

Freestyle wrestler Carol Huynh won the women's 48-kilogram final about 20 minutes after rowers Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen finished second in the men's pair to earn the country's first trip to the podium at the Summer Games. Less than a half hour after Huynh's win, fellow wrestler Tonya Verbeek claimed bronze in the 55-kilogram event.


The medal flurry comes as a welcome relief after Canada went without a trip to the podium during the first seven days of competition.

[Masherbrum]

 

[Monty405]

just wait until the next winter olympics come to canada. home town advantage + being strong in winter sports.

[Baitman]

2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver / Whistler

5 hours drive from my house

[Masherbrum]

2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver / Whistler

5 hours drive from my house

BAck in Dec. 1998, for our honeymoon, we flew out to Portland, Or.   I bought 4 tix to the Phoenix Coyotes/Nucks game at the GM Place.  We drove my best man (who lived in Tigard) up there to see it.   The Holiday Inn manager that my wife was full of watermelon until I showed up in a Bure jersey.   She said "You're from the Detroit Area, why aren't you a REd Wings fan."    I said "I grew up watching them with my pop.   I refused to hop on the bandwagon."   

When we checked out, she gave a bunch a rare stuff to be had from her friend who was in Marketing for Orca Bay.    I just regret not going to more places in Vancouver while we were there.    Maybe 2010 might see a return.    You need a navigator, so we can stash the wives in the back seat and let them cluck like hens?   

From Michigan, Go Canucks!!!

[Baitman]

Just spent the last week down in Vancouver and the lower mainland area. Best time to visit is in the summer for seeing the scenery and the lakes. But the winter is nice also, Whistler area gets quite a pile of snow (wetter snow). We here in the South central get 12 - 15' in the mountains of dryer snow( powder). great for snowmobiling and snow boarding. I am more of a summer person with the number of lakes we have we get out in the wakeboard boat and cruize the beaches. The view is the best from the water

BC is one of the best places in the world to live. We have Canada's only desert (Osoyoos), we also have the rainest city (Prince Rupert) and everything in between. Almost every type of wildlife and Salmon fishing and killer whale watching. 

If you or anyone else wants to come up, get a hold of me and I am sure that I can find enough things for you to see and do for quite a while.   

The Land


British Columbia is bordered by Alberta to the east, the states of Washington, Idaho and Montana to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The Alaska Panhandle and the Canadian territories of Yukon and The Northwest Territories form the northern border.
At 944,735 square km (364,764 square miles), BC is about the size of France, Germany and the Netherlands combined. It's larger than the total area of Washington, Oregon and California.
75% of the province is mountainous (more than 1,000 meters or 3,280 feet above sea level), 60% is forested, and only about 5% is arable.
A series of southeast-northwest running mountain ranges, from the Rockies in the east to the Coast Mountain and Vancouver Island ranges in the west, serrate the landscape into a series of peaks, plateaus and valleys.
British Columbia's rugged coastline stretches for more than 27,000 kilometers (16,780 miles), including deep, mountainous fjords and about 6,000 islands, most of which are uninhabited.
The largest island, at 451 kilometers (280 miles) long, is Vancouver Island. Home to Victoria, the provincial capital, it lies off the southwest corner of BC's mainland.

For example Texas is 268,581 square miles

[Donzo]

2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver / Whistler

5 hours drive from my house

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[gwano]

You can't expect Canada to do well in the summer olmypics-they have like 13 days of summer sometime between memorial day and labor day.
They will excel in the winter olmypics though as they usually do. Nice to have them in Canada.

[Bear76]

Thought we were going to go the whole games without a medal. We finally got one of each color

Red, white and blue? Refering to your avatar colors, btw 

j/k -  congrats 

[MiloMorai]

You can't expect Canada to do well in the summer olmypics-they have like 13 days of summer sometime between memorial day and labor day.
They will excel in the winter olmypics though as they usually do. Nice to have them in Canada.

I remember as a kid being asked by some Americans with fur coats and skiis on top of their car 'where is the snow'. It was mid June and the temperature was in the high 70s. We told them to try Alaska.

[angelsandair]

For example Texas is 268,581 square miles

Belive it or not, Texas would be a great place for the Olympics outside of Austin. Texas has everything (except snow)

[Holden McGroin]

Congratulations Canukia!

For the second consecutive Summer Games, the Canadian men's eight went into the competition as the defending world champion and overwhelming favourite. After fading to fifth at Athens, this time the Canuck eight delivered the golden moment.

The Canucks finished the 2,000-metre course in five minutes, 23.89 seconds to the silver-medallist Great Britain's 5:25.11 and the defending Olympic champion Americans' 5:25.34. The Netherlands was fourth in the final, Poland fifth and Australia sixth.

[Fishu]

Thought we were going to go the whole games without a medal. We finally got one of each color

I was sure Finland wasn't going to get a single gold medal, but surprisingly we got ours with a gun!

[Baitman]

I was sure Finland wasn't going to get a single gold medal, but surprisingly we got ours with a gun!

Congrats there Finland 

[Baitman]

This morning I am proud to say that we now can add four more medals to the count.

1 gold and 3 bronze..

Rowers accounted for three medals, with the men's eight crew claiming gold in a race they led start-to-finish.

The lightweight women's double and the lightweight men's four each earned bronze, while swimmer Ryan Cochrane started the day with a third-place finish in the gruelling men's 1,500-metre freestyle race.