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EXCEPTIONALISM---US sets Medal Record in Vancouver
2010-02-28
The United States is guaranteed 37 medals and Canada will finish with at least 13 gold medals. Both are the best of these games and part of the greatest hauls ever at a Winter Olympics.

The Americans will leave with the most medals by any country at any Winter Games. They also will win the medal count for only the second time, the other being at Lake Placid in 1932.

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AP-(02-28-2010)
Posted by:Tom- Pa

#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  

#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  

#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  

#2  Eric - Somehow I don't think the Russians would agree with you.
Posted by: DMFD   2010-02-28 15:18  

#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  

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