Posted on 02/18/2018 5:58:26 PM PST by EdnaMode
The United States has won at least 25 Winter Olympic medals at each of the last four Games. With one week to go in Pyeongchang, the Americans have visited the podium just 10 times and are on pace to post their lowest medal count at Winter Games since 1998.
After winning 13 medals each at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics and 1998 Nagano Olympics, Team USA medal totals at Olympic Winter Games increased exponentially. First, it was 34 trips to the podium in 2002 at Salt Lake City. Then, 25 medals at Turin in 2006. A record 37 Winter Olympic medals followed at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and 28 more in Sochi four years later.
Have the American athletes performed below expectations? Or have they not had the opportunity to medal yet?
The answer is a little bit of both.
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Wasn’t the finals but the qualifying runs. Top 12 go to finals. That said I’m over the “gay” Olympics and done watching.
Did you know that Norway is the all-time leader in Winter Olympic medals? This isn’t anything new.
Diversity is our strength!!!!!
I know it’s nothing new. It still bugs me.
In total all time Olympic medals (combined summer and winter games) the US has 2804 medals according to wiki. Second place with less than half that total is the former Soviet Union with 1204. With other versions of Russia added you get a total of 1884. Germany Britain and France round out the top five.
We lost Steve Holcomb, the bobsled team isn’t the same without him.
So you want us to be like the Communist countries and invest millions of taxpayer dollars in having an Olympic team that dominates the Medal Count?
I would like to see an additional column on the scoreboard showing the flags of the country where each competitor lives and trains most of the time.
I proposed that they should march according to which US University they went to.
UF has had a lot of medal winners, and a lot of them competed for other countries. I believe UF is only second to USC in that department.
Another great idea.
“Faggotry on ice” and low ratings
Geez! Is there still a week of this silliness left to go?
Exactly. Any sport that involves judges isn’t a real sport.
I want to know who is the fastest, period!
It’s because of global warming and there’s no snow in the Rockies anymore but there’s still plenty in the Alps because Europeans endorse the Paris accords.
The bad new is: there’s people dumb enough to believe that.
No
Yawwwnnnn......Oh, look at the time......
Between Lindsay Vonn and Adam Rippon, a LOT of viewers have been disgusted and stopped watching.
Mediocre talent brings mediocre results.
It’s that simple.
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