Nalaris wrote:My heck, lighten up, we're slaughtering the bulk of the competition and it's not even over yet. I think.
I wouldn't use slaughtering as the word of choice.
The United States is doing well, but thats only because we've pumped as many athletes as we could into the Winter Games. I believe we've brought more atheletes than any other nation and I'm fairly certain we've got men and women in every event.
But we're not even leading the medal counts. It's 24 Germany, 20 US. As much boasting as the US did before the games and predictions made for strongest Olympic team to-date, I've seen more American letdowns than sweeps.
Jeremy Bloom, Bode Miller, Mens Hockey, Shauni Davis (Mens Speed Skating Relay)
I find it interesting that we're not doing much better because of the facilities of winter events available to US athletes. Our main competition is mainly Eurpoean and South East Asian, far different than the Summer Games. But yet in 2004 we posted 102 medals compared to Russia's 93 or so.
From the events I've seen, I've been dissappointed by names I've been watching since last year. On the plus, we've got the advantage in Snowboarding because we invented the sport and American competitions are what the Olympic judgings are based on for points. Plus I doubt they've made alot of halfpipes in Kazikstan.
All in all, mediocre US performance when compared to all the hype.
