Re: Canadian Olympians are an Embarrassment

You're not like the others, Dan S.
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>... you like the same
things I do! Wax paper! Boiled football leather! Dog breath!

>Canuck57 presented the following explanation :
>> "Claude" <Claude@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "J.C. Watts Enslin" <jonenslin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Honestly, as a Canadian I would rather skip the Olympics entirely
>>>> rather than witness the embarrassment that this has become.  One week
>>>> in and we have yet to win a single medal.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It would only really be an embarrassment if the Government had been
pouring 
>>> megabucks into s****t in Canada  - that's what the successful countries
do. 
>>> Just watch the UK walk over the rest of them in the cycling.
>>
>> Yes it would.  As it is, I bet China spends less per athlete than does 
>> Canada, but their management style gets results.  Don't think this a
money 
>> issue.
>
>Adjusted for cost-of-living and dollar/yuan rate?

Aubrun: 11 medals (two gold)

Canuckia: zero


John Rogers
AU Class of 1985
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pull for Alabama except when they play Auburn, then they'll lie 
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