Who will it be?

Still waiting for that email Ian. I sent you a message with my email address again. Thanks. Go Habs Go!! Habsrule

.......because everybody knows that if you're from a warm climate you should be able to run the 100 m sprint in under 10 seconds or play soccer like Pele? These "immigrants", come to Canada to make a better life for themselves and their families, just like your ancestors and mine, not to rack up medals for your amusement. Between you and me, Cat, I think your comment is borderline bigotry.

Cat How so?

absolutely ...between climate and funding which is a totally different story (ie. football is not an Olympic sport and how many top notch American athletes play football,etc). I am just saying population in combination with climate is the biggest advantage a nation can have....population being the biggest IMO. Ignoring all of the little details that are in fact big details it also must be noted that there were 929 medals awarded in the 2004 games and only 251 medal awarded int he 2006 winter games. By assuming the same number of available medals (multiplying winter totals by 3.7) and combining the medal from 2004 and 2006 the standings are actually as follows. winter wint(x3.7) summer total pop in million US 25 92 103 220 303 Russia 22 81 92 195 141 Ger 29 107 48 184 82 Cana 24 89 12 125 33 Austria 23 85 7 115 8 * China 11 41 63 115 1321 Norway 19 70 6 95 4.6 * So Korea 11 41 30 85 49 France 9 33 42 84 60 * Italy 11 41 32 84 58 Sweden 14 52 7 73 9 * Switz 14 52 5 71 7 * Nether 9 33 22 64 16 * Austral 2 7 49 58 20 * I realize this fatally flawed and misweighted but just for fun but if we try by taking the countries to have won double digit medals in both climates that helps to reduce the impact of the weighted system (and makes our numbers better lol). By doing this Austria, Norway, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands and australia are eliminated. Now look at our medal count relative to the populations and tell me who the best athletes in the world are ..................O CANADA OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND....... Now I will not accept any logical rebuttals or contradictions to this data as I am too proud to care.....so when you think we are sucking at these games just remember this......and that October is right around the corner.

That's like saying, if I make $100K a year and you make $50K a year. If we walk into a Depanneur and you have $5 in your pocket and I have $8 dollars in my pocket. YOU, technically have more purchasing power.

lol darn it... and I was looking for a good argument ...it's been a while with the summer and you fooled me with the Quebec thing.