Canada Olympic Medal Count
Posted by: admin in Boring life stuff, tags: canadian athletes, olympics
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Well thanks to Wikipedia and a question from Dave D I now know that Canada is sucking this year at the Olympics. This post is in no way trying to rub the Canadian athletes noses in the fact that Canada has really underperformed this year. But we have. When you look at the table below remember that the Olympics in LA in 1984 was the year that the Russkies boycotted after the US and others boycotted in 1980, tit for tat.
Here is the list for past years even though this year we have no medals so far. Apparently there will be more medals, including some Olympic medals for Canada this week. I for one will be watching.
| Games | Flagbearer | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 Athens | did not compete | |||||
| 1900 Paris | None | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1904 St. Louis | None | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| 1908 London | None | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 | |
| 1912 Stockholm | Duncan Gillis | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| 1920 Antwerp | Archie McDiarmid | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
| 1924 Paris | Hector Phillips | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1928 Amsterdam | Joseph Wright Jr. | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | |
| 1932 Los Angeles | George Maughan | 2 | 5 | 8 | 15 | |
| 1936 Berlin | James Worrall | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | |
| 1948 London | Robert McFarlane | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1952 Helsinki | William Parnell | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1956 Melbourne | Robert Steckle | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1960 Rome | Carl Schwende | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1964 Tokyo | Gilmour Boa | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1968 Mexico City | Roger Jackson | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1972 Munich | Doug Roges | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1976 Montreal (host) | Abby Hoffman | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| 1980 Moscow | Sue Holloway | did not compete | ||||
| 1984 Los Angeles | Alex Baumann | 10 | 18 | 16 | 44 | |
| 1988 Seoul | Carolyn Waldo | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | |
| 1992 Barcelona | Michael Smith | 7 | 4 | 7 | 18 | |
| 1996 Atlanta | Charmaine Crooks | 3 | 11 | 8 | 22 | |
| 2000 Sydney | Caroline Brunet | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | |
| 2004 Athens | Nicolas Gill | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | |
| 2008 Beijing | Adam van Koeverden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 55 | 85 | 102 | 242 | ||
Usually it seems that Canada does a lot better at the Olympics but this year? Not so good. I am not sure why. Actually the Winter Olympics are much better for us since there are many more months of winter in this country than Summer months.
Anyway someone please let me know without giving into government bashing as to why we have sucked it so hard this year so far.
Again don’t try to blame the athletes! They train for years and years with no income to try to win a medal, they are not to blame as individuals at all.
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