Source: theguardian
In Europe the Olympic Medal Count is ranked by number of Gold medals rather than total number of medals, so right now it looks very good for us German-Canadians, with Germany being in front and Canada as first runner-up! Canada had started very strong, but in the last two days Germany won four Gold and one Silver medals, so they really went ahead in the count.
It is quite surprising how well Germany does at Winter Games in general considering that it is not a country that knows hard winters. But even the All-Time Winter Olympics count is being led by Germany, although this counts both previous German states as one.
One medal that Germany will not take home for sure this time is one for Hockey. For the first time since, like, forever, the team did not qualify for the Games. This is a huge decline since the legendary Bronze medal from Innsbruck 1976 when they managed to get into third place due to a) the absence of Canada and Sweden, and b) a very strange rule that put them ahead of Finland although ending up with the same number of points and a worse goal difference, and having lost to Finland. No problem for us anyway, we say "Go Canada"!
The Happy Countries. :^)
ReplyDeleteSonja, Canada and Germany are doing really well. It's early going and there are sports where we don't do well coming up.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't planning to pay attention much, but I have to say that there have been remarkable stories of Canadian achievement at the games, an athlete winning bronze with a broken rib, the speed skater giving up his place to a fellow team mate who went on to earn silver, all the gold medalists, the three sisters from Montreal, two of whom medalled, gold and silver. Just amazing inspiring stories.
right, Germany is doing pretty well. Canada is way behind, but still has the chance for Gold in women's and men's hockey :-). Just watched Canada's men vs Latvia and we won. Go Canada!
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