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ninty · 02-25-2006, 10:58 PM

yeah. in salt lake we won 17 medals and that was the highest until now. Right now were at 24 and in third 1 behind the US so I think that's pretty good. The canadian olympic guys said that they wanted to get third place this time around and to do that we would need to get 25 medals. I think our athletes did a great job. All the athletes did an awesome job. Must be so hard to get there, all the time and effort and money dedicated to getting there.

I'm not sure about other places in the world but in Canada our athletes don't get much in the way of funds from the government. I mean training for the olympics is pretty much a full time job and yet most people have to have a full time job to pay the bills and just scratch by to make it to the olympics.

I'm really happy for all the athletes and I think third place is great.

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ninty is Offline Major General Posts: 12,683 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary	02-25-2006, 10:58 PM yeah. in salt lake we won 17 medals and that was the highest until now. Right now were at 24 and in third 1 behind the US so I think that's pretty good. The canadian olympic guys said that they wanted to get third place this time around and to do that we would need to get 25 medals. I think our athletes did a great job. All the athletes did an awesome job. Must be so hard to get there, all the time and effort and money dedicated to getting there. I'm not sure about other places in the world but in Canada our athletes don't get much in the way of funds from the government. I mean training for the olympics is pretty much a full time job and yet most people have to have a full time job to pay the bills and just scratch by to make it to the olympics. I'm really happy for all the athletes and I think third place is great.