Official Torino 2006 thread

[Platypus]

Well, Sydney did offer to host 2004 if Athens wasn't ready...


There have only been two host cities, ever, that didn't have a question mark over their heads about their readiness, basically until they started.

Sydney and Olympia.

[minionofmidas]

Well, Sydney did offer to host 2004 if Athens wasn't ready...


There have only been two host cities, ever, that didn't have a question mark over their heads about their readiness, basically until they started.

Sydney and Olympia.

Which would seem to prove that Australians are two millennia behind the times.

[Platypus]

Well, Sydney did offer to host 2004 if Athens wasn't ready...


There have only been two host cities, ever, that didn't have a question mark over their heads about their readiness, basically until they started.

Sydney and Olympia.

Which would seem to prove that Australians are two millennia behind the times.

That or that Greeks can build stuff, just not in Athens.

[Hatman 🍁]

To my mind. the most memorable event of Torino 2006 was the deadly glare from the Italian ice dancer after her parter dropped her.

That was pretty deadly; certainly a contended for the top five.

Re:Klassen-not enough of them were gold. She could have won 10 silver and it wouldn't have been all that memorable. It'd probably be more memorable because of the lack of gold, actually.

You're just jealous because she got more medals than Australia has in the last two Olympics.

I certainly hope you've stocked up on enough renditions of "O, Canada" for the year; They will be few and far between whilst Australia's winning 90-odd golds in a couple of weeks.

BTW, the last two olympics are Torino and Athens. I wonder what the results would be if you considered just those two

Well, we won 36 medals if you combine the two Olympics. I am positive Aussie has as beat there. But, it's not like any of the Summer Olympic events really matter

Well, to make it a bit more even, we'll make it the last two winter games as well as Athens.

Athens:

CANADA
3 Gold
6 Silver
3 Bronze

21st Place; 12 medals total; 24 points.

AUSTRALIA
17 Gold
16 Silver
16 Bronze

4th Place; 49 medals total; 99 points.

Salt Lake City:

CANADA
7 Gold
3 Silver
7 Bronze

4th Place; 17 medals total; 34 points.

AUSTRALIA
2 Gold
0 Silver
0 Bronze

15th place; 2 medals total; 6 points.

Torino:

CANADA
7 Gold
10 Silver
7 Bronze

5th Place; 24 medals total; 48 points.

AUSTRALIA
1 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze

17th Place; 2 medals total; 4 points.


Total medals:

CANADA
17 Gold
19 Silver
17 Bronze

53 medals total; 106 points total.

AUSTRALIA
20 Gold
16 Silver
17 Bronze

53 medals total; 109 points total.

So really, if you give Canada the benefit of two winter games versus just the one summer games, it's pretty even. But we still win

Just wait until our funding for sports programs and athletes gets better. Then we can trully compete

[Platypus]

That'll happen around about the time we get snowfall covering the whole country.

I can't wait for snow in Darwin