Just a reminder that
>Canada failed to win a gold medal in the Olympics they hosted, making them the only country in olympic history to do so.
Just a reminder that
when?
Montreal 1976
we need to ask for walking on iced over sidewalk with parked cars everywhere to be an olympic sport, we would dominate
Sarajevo '84, mate
I was on Cred Forums when this happened.
Good times
Montreal 1976 was the only time for the Summer Olympics
Winter: Chamonix 1924, St. Moritz 1928, Sarajevo 1984, Calgary 1988
The ones in the 1920s were no gold or silver. There's never been a host nation with no gold, silver, or bronze.
So Canada has managed this twice then.
ok?
>ywn go back in time and browse Cred Forums in 1914
Why even live, bros
how the fuck did leafs not win a gold in the Winter Olympics?
>it took 30 years to pay off the debt from those olympics
At least we hosted the olympics
Would've taken 15 had we not have been a corrupt banana republic.
Think of it this way. Prior to 1988, Canada didn't have the infrastructure in place to consistently practice certain sports.
>Montreal
>Canada
How did Germany do so well back then? What happened since? They won 17 in Rio
Steroids.
Curling, short track, and freestyle skiing were only demonstration sports that year, so no medals for that.
Commies were using pro-level hockey players because they don't get ""paid for hockey""
If you take out those events, Canada isn't that great.
>East Germany and Soviet Union
Hmmm, yeah real brain buster
And Calgary 1988
Montreal is not Canada, it is Quebec
A FUCKING LEAF
there would be no Canada without Quebec, and I don't even speak French
Quebec city is where "Canada" originally was supposed to be.
What does Canada even mean ?
>tfw the autistic mod deletes /warof1812/ threads
pissed me off, tbqh la
Burger gets it.
Spotted the newfag, hero didn't create Cred Forums until 1992.
>this entire post
There are a bunch of myths about the name. Nobody really knows. The most popular one was some abo said "kanata" as in their world for village to describe his home and some European heard "Canada" and assumed it was the name of the place.
Canada has never been responsible for anything goo-
We were just doo damn polite to take any of the gold medals when everyone else worked so hard and came from all around the world to be in Canada. They deserved gold for showing up but that actually wouldn't be very nice as it would make everyone else feel bad probably.
>tfw wasn't on Cred Forums for Zidane's headbutt
Kind of hard to win medals when the communists were doping so hard. Do you really believe East Germany won all those medals without any tricks?
7 out of that top 10 were communist back then.
You mean the commies were so fucked that they had to resort to steroids and enlisting all of their pro athletes in "the army" so they could win medals and their system still collapsed after the South Korean Winter Olympics and the athletes would go on to do sponsorships and endorsements and they loved it?
Communism, not even once.