❄️ WINTER OLYMPICS ❄️

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Calheel said:
Crazy how good Norway, a country of 5 million people, is at Winter Olympic sports.
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To be fair, they get a lot of practice when it's cold and snowy there 11 months* a year.

*Disclaimer: I have no idea how many months a year it's actually cold and snowy in Norway.
 
SnoopRob said:
To be fair, they get a lot of practice when it's cold and snowy there 11 months* a year.

*Disclaimer: I have no idea how many months a year it's actually cold and snowy in Norway.
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A lot of those snowy months get 18 hours of darkness. Maybe they have good headlamp equipment.
 
farce© said:
Agreed, but bobsled and ski jumping look fun as hell.
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I have a buddy in NC whose parents grew up in Western Wisconisn-Scandavian descent
Back in the day all the little hick towns there had a Ski Jump
 
C-Money said:
Cross-country skiing does not seem fun at all.
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Jim Gafigan has a funny bit about it. Cross country skiing is basically that part of skiing where you’re trying to get from the flat part of the slope back to the lift…the worst part of skiing
 
bassydude77 said:
Jim Gafigan has a funny bit about it. Cross country skiing is basically that part of skiing where you’re trying to get from the flat part of the slope back to the lift…the worst part of skiing
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I wonder if folks who live in snowy countries see cross country skiing like many folks elsewhere see running, it's not something that you inherently enjoy but it has its appeal once you do it and are good at it?
 
fourheels said:
Correct. The medal round was still a round robin situation. The US beat Finland in ther next game to win the gold
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It was round robin until the medal round. Then it was 4 team, single elimination. We beat Russians in the semis and Finland for the gold. Last two games were not part of the round robin.
 
SnoopRob said:
There was a study a number of years ago now that looked at the happiness of Olympic medal winners (who you think would all be happy to be in the top 3 in their sport in the world). The findings...

1) Gold medal winners were nearly universally extremely happy.

2) Bronze medal winners were the next happiest. While a decent minority were disappointed that they didn't do better, the vast majority were glad to have gotten a medal and realized they could have finished outside the medals.

3) Silver medal winners were a much more mixed bag, although on the whole they were less happy than bronze medal winners. Many were excited for their achievement, but many were also quite upset that they had been very, very close to winning gold and being known as the best in the world at their sport. The perceived loss of not winning the gold was bigger for these folks than the perceived gain from winning second.

It would seem that the Canadian Hockey Team was in the "bigger perceived loss" group of silver medal winners.
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Silver is a lot more of a thrill in sports where there isn’t a final game where winner gets gold, loser gets silver. If you’re just in a 20 person field of people doing the luge and you come in 2nd, that’s a lot different feeling than losing a gold medal hockey or basketball game.
 
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