Jump to content

Russia


Comanche County
 Share

Recommended Posts

Look, Russia is a essentially just a big giant third world country that should have never tried to match us culturally, economically, or  militarily.  They're seriously a massive country of alcoholic back woods rednecks, and I'd match all my kin against theirs any day except when the winter Olympics are in question......

 

So far in the olympics, it looks like we should have never challenged them on the ice rink.  

 

Gotta pick your battle right and take your losses.  We're gettin whooped in skating and I doubt we'll repeat 1980.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 57
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Russia has been ravaged for a very long time by incompetent, corrupt politicians and governments...

And we haven't?  :brows: Yet strangely Putin is more popular and powerful than our POTUS

 

 

I think we generally beat Russia in the medal counts don't we? I know it was a special pleasure to blow up the Canucks on their home turf a few years ago... 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1980, while very exciting, was a one-game fluke. If they had a 2 out of 3 playoff series for the gold it probably would have never happened. Sadly, the only shot I see we (USA) have to medal in hockey now is the women. And frankly, I really don't care about women's hockey. Or basketball. It's like slow motion. I rather watch curling.............

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I know it was a special pleasure to blow up the Canucks on their home turf a few years ago... 

 

Sorry, what?

I see your pile of consolation prizes and raise you 14 gold medals to your 10. No one up here got blown up, but you're welcome to continue thinking that...

 

And frankly, I really don't care about women's hockey. I rather watch curling.............

Yeah, we'll be cleaning the floor with the other women's hockey teams. That's just a given. I agree I'd rather watch the curling.

And yes, it takes skill. Sliding a 40lb rock over 100ft down the ice and then having it stop just where you want it to ain't easy.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

I know it was a special pleasure to blow up the Canucks on their home turf a few years ago... 

 

Sorry, what?

I see your pile of consolation prizes and raise you 14 gold medals to your 10. No one up here got blown up, but you're welcome to continue thinking that...

 

 

 

 

Teasing doesn't come over well on the 'net. I was comparing the Canadians, close friends, to the Russians, decades long adversaries, as the comparison is not apples to apples. Absurd comparisons are a type of humor. But to put things in perspective so that neither of us will have to  think "that":  The Great White North wouldn't even win Bronze in their strong suit the Winter Olympics. The medal winners would be Gold = Norway. Silver = USA. Bronze = USSR/Russia. Anything but Gold may be a consolation price but it beats not even getting to sit at the grown-ups table. I guess when you are 8th why try harder?

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/02/winter-olympics-medal-count-sochi-all-time-facts/

 

As winter Olympic sports are something that a small percentage of our population just plays at for the most part  ( with much of our country never seeing sub-freezing temperatures or snow) if ya want to get serious would you care to compare total summer Olympic medal counts or total combined Olympic medal counts?  :cheers:

 

(BTW: Every website that I can find shows a different medal count for 1988 than you cite. Can you post a link about it or something? I am not doubting them but my google-foo is weak.) 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Mm... bringing up the past. The best way to win any argument.

You were referring to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. That's what the numbers were for. I pulled them from the Wikipedia article, and what do you know, you're right. I did quote them wrong... you guys only got nine Gold medals to our fourteen. Also worth noting, that's the most Gold medals a nation has ever won in a single Winter Olympics.

And as of this moment, we're sitting at the top of the leader board for this year's Olympics, with two Gold and then our two silver pulling us ahead of everyone else tied with two Golds. Not that it really means anything when we're only a couple days in.

 

:cheers: Cheers, and good luck to ya!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our athletes don't need the luck  :thumbsup:

 

And yes, I know it's all in jest.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Total medal count as of 9:30 EST 2/13/14:

 

Norway                   13     (4/3/6)

USA                        12     (4/2/6)

TIE:  Canada          10     (4/4/2)

        Netherlands    10     (4/2/4)

The Ruskies:            9     (2/4/3)

Germany                  8     (6/1/1)

 

You gotta respect Norway and the Netherlands for once again bringing it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I know, we lost Apolo Ohno, now its the suits fault... :doh:

 

btw, I would like to refer you to:  http://www.tnsportsradio.com/2014/02/06/10-hottest-women-2014-winter-olympics/3/

 

(okay, I'll stop now)

I volunteer to assist with "international relations"

 

Funny how they count standings in the Olympics...it makes about as much sense as how they award the venues..... Total medals don't count. We are tied with the canucks for golds but they have two more silvers while we have 4 more bronze. We also beat their medal totals but they are listed one ahead off us. Hmmm... If they assigned a value to each medal (3-G,2-S,1- B) than we would be tied for 2nd with 28 each to Germany's 29. The tie breaker, most medals, would go to us. As it stands we are 5th and 6th despite our having tied the Ruskies for most medals and Canada in a 3-way tie with the Netherlands & Norway for 2nd. Oh, well. It will be decades before they catch us in total winter olympic medals at this rate!!!!  :banana:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Don't find the standings count funny at all. You take first place. You get a gold. That single first place is worth more than any number of second places. So you "win" by getting the most wins. This way, no one could be said to have "won" without actually outright winning anything. You have to remember that the point of the Olympics is to find the world's best athletes. Doesn't really make sense to say "oh, we have the most not-quite-best athletes"...

Winning is everything at the Olympics. Seems like a very American approach... funny there's an American complaining about it!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I have no problem in the way medals are weighed and agree with the above. As Coach Lombardi said, "winning is everything". Frankly, I'm very disappointed with the USA's performance (or non-performance) so far, and there is no way you can sugarcoat it. And three of four USA golds are from snowboard events, events I consider trash sports from the X-Games and have no place in the Winter Olympics. The other gold is in "Freestyle Skiing". WTF is that? Dancing on skis? Give me a break. Then the speed skaters whining about the suits being the problem as to why they sucked was a nice touch too.

 

Let's face it: The USA is maintaining the status quo or declining in some cases in the preparation and execution of both Winter and Summer Olympic sports, while most other countries are improving every year. Our abysmal mens boxing team's performance at the 2012 Olympics is an good example - not one medal  of any color. And we used to dominate mens boxing just a few years ago.  :shake:

 

Oh well, it is what it is and I don't see any changes forthcoming any time soon. A mens hockey gold or even the ladies hockey gold would sure be nice about now................

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Don't get me started on boxing.  My favorite winter event is the downhill Super G.  That is skiing IMO!

 

I think we've had some hard breaks so far.  An Olympic Gold requires absolute perfection and we've been close but mishaps and slips have bit us in the behind.  To be an Olympian requires a lifetime of devotion to the sport.  They only get one chance in the games, and every country's athletes have probably performed "perfect 10s" in their respective events 1000 times in practice....its kinda heartbreaking to see an athlete, from any country, make a mistake when you know they trained so hard. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I get the winning is everything but this is not really a team sport event in its totality. By that process a country can win 5 golds and no other medals and "win" the Olympics while another country can have 4 Golds and 21 Silvers and be behind the first country. If winning is all that matters and to score it the current way just give golds.

 

Yes, we are on the decline. Part of it is the continued wussification of our kids by helicopter parents and PC policies and part is the dilution of the skill pool by there being so many other sports to draw the athletes. The X-games is a prime example. But being on the decline means you were at least at the top at some point.

 

The crash by Jacobellis in snowboarding is a good example, to me, of that one little mistake Comanche Country is talking about. Then that dingy American speed skater got DQ'd for doing something stupid to try to go from first to second at the finish line in a heat race when the top three advance...that wasn't sad but frustrating to watch. 

 

I dated a girl in high school who was the daughter of our Olympic hockey goalie in '64 & '68. He had some very interesting stories about the Olympics even back then....  :brows:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share


×
×
  • Create New...