❄️ WINTER OLYMPICS ❄️

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HeelYeah2012 said:
Wow, thanks for sharing, I stand corrected. I just got done watching the new Netflix documentary about the Miracle on Ice and they sure made it seem like the game against Finland was a “gold medal game”
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Well it was in the sense we had to beat Sweden to win gold. But if we lost to Sweden, I’m not sure who would have got the gold. Both Sweden and USSR would have had four points and been I a tie.
 
Calheel said:
Well it was in the sense we had to beat Sweden to win gold. But if we lost to Sweden, I’m not sure who would have got the gold. Both Sweden and USSR would have had four points and been I a tie.
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I think you mean Finland and not Sweden. But yes, fair to say that from the USA perspective it was a gold medal game. But it was not a true gold medal game. That’s crazy.

I always knew us against the Soviets was not for the gold, but I absolutely thought it was a semifinal! Thanks for correcting me.
 
Calheel said:
Well it was in the sense we had to beat Sweden to win gold. But if we lost to Sweden, I’m not sure who would have got the gold. Both Sweden and USSR would have had four points and been I a tie.
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We beat Finland for the gold, not Sweden. We trailed 2-1 entering the 3rd period but scored 3 in the 3rd to win. Had Finland won, the Soviets would have won the gold with 4 points. We would have been tied with Finland at 3 points but because of their head to head win over us, Finland would have won the silver and we would have settled for the the bronze. Sweden would have been 4th with 1 point.
 
fourheels said:
We beat Finland for the gold, not Sweden. We trailed 2-1 entering the 3rd period but scored 3 in the 3rd to win. Had Finland won, the Soviets would have won the gold with 4 points. We would have been tied with Finland at 3 points but because of their head to head win over us, Finland would have won the silver and we would have settled for the the bronze. Sweden would have been 4th with 1 point.
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Oh yeah. I must have Scandinavia dyslexia.
 
Calheel said:
Crazy how good Norway, a country of 5 million people, is at Winter Olympic sports.
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  • 14 medals were in XC skiing
  • 11 were in biathlon (yea, you have to both XC ski and shoot really well; to shoot really well you have to be fit as hell in the XC ski portion and almost instantly bring down your heart rate)
  • Nordic combined - 3 medals - it combines XC Skiing with ski jumping
  • Ski jumping - 5 medals
Norway doesn’t win many alpine medals or figure skating medals or luge/bobsled medals or speed skating medals.

Norway wins XC Ski-based medals.

XC Skiers have epically huge heart/lung capacities. Why? They’re vertical (gravity is in play; unlike for swimmers) and XC-Skiers use legs and arms. The heart-and-lungs have to pump blood to the brain, legs, and arms.

Norwegians do this from age 1-2.

They dominate the sports they do as toddlers.

They are inconsequential in speed skating and alpine skiing and non-existent in sledding sports.

Hockey? Curling? Figure skating?

How many millions of people in the US or China or Western/Central/Eastern Europe have ready access to XC Skiing terrain? Groomed trails? Coaching? Equipment?
 
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