Olympic Excitement

[MadBurgerMaker]

This shit ends tomorrow (Sunday) right?

Edit:  Wow 36 medals.  Wasn't the big Canadian "Own the Podium" goal 35 total medals?

[Eddie Teach]

Russia's goal was 40. I don't think they're gonna make it.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Russia's goal was 40. I don't think they're gonna make it.

Hey they could win 2524 platinum medals between now and tomorrow night.  Success!

E: My mistake, they already have one of those.

[Ape]

The differance between the Swedish and Canadian curling girls is that the Swedish had Hearts on Fire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL9mlqbG5CU 

[Syt]

The differance between the Swedish and Canadian curling girls is that the Swedish had Hearts on Fire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL9mlqbG5CU 

Hammerfall is a girly band, so it's fitting.

[Neil]

Btw, whatever happened to the old medal tables? Gold = 5 pts, Silver = 3 pts, Bronze = 1 pt?

They wanted to not put such a big emphasis on winning.  Because losers are winners too, and whatnot.

[Maximus]

Yea I was looking at the medal distribution earlier in the week. the range of quality vs. quantity varies greatly from one country to the next. Russia seems to have missed on both.

[Berkut]

Proper weighting:

Gold: 1.5
Silver: 1.3
Bronze: 1.0

Someone do the math.

[Zanza]

The only nation where weighing the medals really changes anything (unless you put extreme weight on gold medals) is South Korea as they have virtually no bronze medals, but are pretty good otherwise.

[Maladict]

Proper weighting:

Gold: 1.0
Silver: 0.0
Bronze: 0.0

Fixed your post.
Nobody should be able to top the board without winning an event, not even theoretically.

[Ed Anger]

Watched the taped Canada-Slovakia game. Got my Satan fix. 

[Barrister]

Whew - made it home in time for the curling gold medal.

[Barrister]

Canada's playing a little shakey right now.  Up 1-0 after 3 ends, but they lost hammer, so really Norway has the edge right now.

[Barrister]

Couple key mistakes by Norway in the 4th allows Canada to steal one.

2-0.

[Barrister]

Norway comes up light on what should have been (for this level) an easy draw to the 8'.  Canada steals another.

3-0 after 5.