They can finish these Games with incredible 14 gold medals. Who would have thought that 1 week ago (even though it was clear they would close the gap to Germany, USA & Norway)? Kudos! If the US want to finish the Games on 2nd spot, they have to win the prestigious hockey final. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics_medal_table
I'm quite happy with where the Dutch are esp considering that we lost two sure-thing golds owing to masive blundering. Finishing ahead of Russia is pretty hilarious. Well done to hosts Canada.
Don't be sad, Pope, I know you'll put aside a bit your Spanish heart & will root for Brazil in South Africa ...
Laugh all you want but every betting site I've seen has Spain first and Brasil second. Congrats Canada tonight - not a big hockey fan but that was great entertainment. Really enjoyable Olympics overall despite what the naysayers said
Congrats to the hosts from Canada on impressively winning the medal ranking (for the first time in their history, btw.)! Final Medal Table VANCOUVER 2010 (click) PS: Here's a comparison with the medal rankings of the previous 5 Olympic Winter Games. TURIN 2006 SALT LAKE CITY 2002 NAGANO 1998 LILLEHAMMER 1994
The all time golds table for all olympics (both summer and winter): USA 1016 Soviet/Russia 617 (combined to preempt any whining) Germany/East/West 492 (ditto) Italy 227 France 218 Mediocre Britain 216 Sweden 190 China 176 Norway 160 (2/3 of which are winter medals ) Hungary 159 Talk about owning the podium .
Keep in mind that Soviet/Russia's Olympic history is around 40 years shorter than many other of these countries. They did not compete between 1912 and 1952.
germany 1st in winter and third in summer..pretty impressive stuff! looking at that list puts in perspective just how bad the russians did this time...usually always among the top 3. i'd expect china to move up massively in those ranking in the next decade
I wouldn't get too excited. A product of some pretty impressive German (well East German) engineering in many cases. Surprisingly, some of the women medallists were found to have vaginas.
Two golds and our first ever silver makes this the most successful winter Olympics yet for Australia. It would be great to see us develop some more alpine skiing talent though. Since Steve Lee in the 70s, Zali Steggall's really been the only contender we've produced.
pretty rich coming from a 'canuck fan'....ben johnson anyone? besides even if you took east germany out of the equation germany still ranks 3rd alltime at the summer games
Recently, Germany really sucks in Summer Olympics...so I wouldn't be surprised for us to lose spots there... Others are gaining in infrastructure, while Germany is increasing its efforts to reduce doping and in this day and age, you need a team of experienced pharmacists to win anything...thankfully, our winter team seems to still have those.
germany has dropped off quite a bit at the summer games...used to be a shoe in for top 3 now usually top 5 or thereabouts...still kickin' ass at the winter games though. not sure what you mean by 'nowadays', don't think doping is any worse now than in any previous decade....its always been there and always will.
