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2010-02-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

EXCEPTIONALISM---US sets Medal Record in Vancouver

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Posted by Tom- Pa 2010-02-28 09:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This is bad statistics. Given the sports they've added in the last few Olympics, you'd need to double the medal count for this to be meaningful. Snow-cross? Parallel giant slalom? ~~Curling~~? Come to think of it, let's keep the curling. Just fire the people in charge of the US Curling Federation.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-02-28 14:09|| 2010-02-28 14:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Eric - Somehow I don't think the Russians would agree with you.

Posted by DMFD 2010-02-28 15:18|| 2010-02-28 15:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Enjoy watching curling, kinda a giant game of (table) shuffleboard. Olympic sport...well...

On the other side of the coin, a liberal friend doesn't think the biathelon is an olympic sport, "They need guns in order to get people to watch?" Cannot explain that the sport used to be called Going to the Grocery Store.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-02-28 16:03|| 2010-02-28 16:03|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and I'd hate to be the first person to tell a Team USA Hockey player that second place is still pretty good.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-02-28 18:25|| 2010-02-28 18:25|| Front Page Top

#5 DMFD,

It's like the stories you see every so often about how the movie X became the highest-grossing film of all time. But how much did X make adjusted for inflation? Compare with Gone With the Wind.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-02-28 22:50|| 2010-02-28 22:50|| Front Page Top

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