Why isn't canada bringing any medals????

Question

honestly ... for a country as big as canada and with such resources and power...I find it hard to beleive canadians are not top three or top five in medal counts..hokey is great ..but pick up some other sports please!!!

Answer 1

MAYBE THEY ARE TOO CONCENTRATED ON WINTER OLYMPIC... CANADA IS TOO COLD TO TRAIN~~~

Answer 2

I hear Canada paying people for gold medals

Answer 3

Only 628 people live there.

Answer 4

because they didnt win

Answer 5

Are you a Canadian?

Canadians are not good on summer sports.

Yes Canada is big but the population isn't that big.

Canadians are good in winter sports so chill and stay cool

Answer 6

according to a recent popular US Article.  L.A. Times

What's Canadian?

   It's big cold empty country. When there are trees, the trees go on for a thousand miles. Where there are prairies, the prairies go on for a thousand miles. It can be thirty below in Winnipeg through much of December, all of January and February, and part of March--and the wind blows from the north the whole time. But: Canada is primarily an urban country, out of contact with those vast landscapes. By far the vast majority of Canadians live together in cities, huddled together in tightly packed places dropped down in the middle of the vast empty landscapes, trying to keep warm together. Northrop Frye talks about Canadians as possessed of a "garrison mentality": we are so frightened by the oppressive vastness and threatening dangerousness of our natural landscape that we build walls against it, and hide behind the walls, in fortified garrisons of the mind. We see the natural world as something that's out to get us. Americans look at a big empty space and say, "Hey, great, let's get busy and conquer it and turn it into a city." Canadians look at a big empty space and say "I'm frightened, so let's get together and build a wall and hide ourselves from the big ugly natural world before it gets us and does us in."

  

Politically and economically, we don't actually in fact control all that much of anything (I speak here as a good Canadian victim). Almost all Canadian business is owned by people outside the country, non-Canadians--most of them Americans or American-based multi-national corporations. We sit, a tiny nation of about thirty million, perched over the top of a huge nation of three hundred million, slowly being engulfed. We speak proudly of the world's longest undefended border, but we know in our hearts it's not defended because it couldn't possibly be--if the Americans wanted just to take over completely, they could do it in about an hour and a half (and we believe they wouldn't ever want to anyway--see below, re losers and the lack of desirability of Canada as a country to live in or be from). We are totally dominated and overwhelmed by the USA. We wear the same clothes as Americans, and eat the same food, purchased in the same fast food franchises, and we read the same magazines and we watch the same TV shows at the same time as Americans watch them (but with ads for specifically Canadian Burger Kings replacing the American ads, so that we know we're really at home). Canadian bookstores are filled with thousands of American books, published in the USA and imported without duties, and a very few higher-priced Canadian ones--higher prices because of the small print runs that eventuate from the fact that most Canadians would rather read American books. I suspect all this is why John Gough, viewing us from the distance of Australia, can't tell the difference between Canadians and Americans--we often have the same trouble ourselves, worry about it a lot, and insist to the point of shrillness that we are NOT American. As a result, a good definition of Canadians is exactly that: "NOT American." We know we are NOT American, for sure--we're just not exactly sure how, but we know it will turn out to be something very important if we can just figure out what it is. And that's a defining quality of the way we talk about ourselves-we try to establish ways in which we are NOT American, or we just proclaim that we are NOT American as we eat our Big Macs and watch our Disney movies. We insist on a difference we can't define--and this of course makes us very different from Americans, who don't have to worry about any of this at all, and who know absolutely that Canadians are exactly like them.

. One of the ways we are NOT American is that we are a people who act like Americans but who are in fact outside the borders of America. We tend to be critical about or to claim distance from the American lifestyle we more or less share--we are somehow outsiders on the inside of American values--able to criticize the lifestyle because we know it so well from lived experience but also know we are distant from what we live, that it represents someone else's values we have somehow acceded to but are not willing to accept as our own. This makes us peculiarly objective about the life we live and share with Americans. Our great writers tend to be critics like Northrop Frye and satirists like Margaret Atwood. Our major import to the US seems to be satirical sketch comics and satirical stand-up comics--and books written for children. We're especially good at writing for children, I think, because we have the same outsider-on-the-inside relationship to mainstream American values as many children and especially teenagers have to the values of their more powerful elders. Canadian can write well about children because Canadians of all ages tend to think as rebellious children in relation to Americans.

  

Summer games is the "real" Olympics.

Greece did not start the olympics on slush.

Answer 7

Not enough tiny short, under aged, pituitary gland challenged women, not enough genetically engineered men, more money put into societal benefits than high tech swimsuits. Greater interest in cereal box content than packaging.  

Answer 8

because..its CANADA

Answer 9

i read an article today saying that many of Canada's great athletes jumped on the U.S. side for endorsement purposes.

Answer 10

Its not the funding, canada.

Do these medaled countries ALL fund their sport more??

Czech RepublicCZE

KoreaPRK

Azerbaijan NetherlandsNED - SlovakiaSVK -

SpainESP -Finland RomaniaROU -

India Thailand France Hungary Zimbabwe Austria

Cuba Kazakhstan Colombia Norway Slovenia Sweden Turkey Vietnam Brazil Armenia Indonesia Chinese Taipei Algeria Argentina Belarus Croatia Georgia Kyrgyzstan Mexico Switzerland Tajikistan Togo Ukraine Uzbekistan

BULL !   let's cut the c**p.

I'd be really be surprised if they came back home with medals.

Answer 11

well the sports canada is most dominate in hasn't had finals yet. canada is very good in rowing and is predicted to win medals in certain rowing finals. (like the men's 8 and lightweight sculls)