I had not realized this little gem of a factoid until I got an e-mail from a Canadian reader:
“Great job on all the Olympic coverage, as always! I notice you guys don’t have anything on Canada - you know a country of 33 million people that has yet to win a medal, yet Olympic superpowers such as Togo, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have won medals. I’m kidding - we don’t deserve coverage yet.”
By Jim Buzinski
2 responses so far ↓
1 LAw // Aug 15, 2008 at 8:16 am
It is greatly embarassing; but hopefully in this second half we will do much better
2 MCd // Aug 17, 2008 at 10:36 am
People here in Canada got way too worked up over this early in the games. People couldn’t clue in that the first part of the Olympics were loaded up with sports we generally don’t do well in. We’re not power houses in the pool or in the gym. Now that rowing, canoe, kayak, trampoline and some other sports start medaling we’ve seen our medal count rise like it was supposed to.
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