LuigiVercotti Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 Here's my list of NOCs/countries that have to be very happy with their results from Vancouver, to the point where they have knocked out either traditional rivals or previous powerhouses... USA: Great results across the board and of course knocked off their northern neighbour in the men's hockey prelim match. More medals to come without a doubt Norway: After a disappointing Torino the Norwegians have come back to more than triple their gold medal haul in Vancouver from 2006. Switzerland: reversed the alpine slump from Torino and have knocked back the Austrian challenge. And in Simon Ammann they have one of the greats of the OWGs. China: Break out performances in several new sports for their athletes at Vancouver, and like South Korea breaking the back of Japan's previous dominance of Asian OWG medal success South Korea: See above Latvia: 2 silvers beats their performance from Torino and makes them the leading ex-USSR state aside from Russia Great Britain: 1 gold so far beats their Torino silver Australia: 2 gold and 1 silver...best ever OWG performance by Aussie, and as of today makes us more successful than Poland, Italy, Japan, Croatia, Finland and Kazakhstan, countries with nominally far more OWG heritage and winter gold medal records. As for Germany and Canada, they can maybe go on this list if they beat Torino results as well, though Canada will still have the 'own the podium' albatross hanging round their neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 Australia are the big surprise. They have done really well!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 UK Sport, the organisation responsible for distributing National Lottery funding to elite sport, set Team GB a target of winning three medals, of any colour. "Three weeks ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, UK Sport has today announced its medal target for the British team. As the nation’s high performance sports agency, UK Sport has invested almost £6 million of National Lottery and Exchequer funds across seven sports since the last Games in Turin and has set a target of three medals in Vancouver." http://www.uksport.gov.uk/news/uk_sport_targets_three_vancouver_olympic_medals_/ Will they be satisfied with one medal, because it's a gold, in light of this target? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuigiVercotti Posted February 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 (edited) UK Sport, the organisation responsible for distributing National Lottery funding to elite sport, set Team GB a target of winning three medals, of any colour. "Three weeks ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, UK Sport has today announced its medal target for the British team. As the nation’s high performance sports agency, UK Sport has invested almost £6 million of National Lottery and Exchequer funds across seven sports since the last Games in Turin and has set a target of three medals in Vancouver." http://www.uksport.gov.uk/news/uk_sport_targets_three_vancouver_olympic_medals_/ Will they be satisfied with one medal, because it's a gold, in light of this target? Methinks there has been a wastage of funds in the skiing/board events. The UK has been best performed in sliding/ice sports (skeleton, bob, figure skating, short track, curling) so that's where the money should go. There might be another medal from men's curling but looks like the British will leave Vancouver with the solitary gold. Edited February 25, 2010 by eusebius65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 Both curling teams were expected to medal, and the two women bob were big hopefuls. Other possibles were alpine skiing, short track speed skating, ice dancing, and snowboard cross. A rather optimistic article from before the Games arguing our medal target is too low Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tower Bridge Fox Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 The big disappointment for Great Britain’s was the Curling, but that doesn’t diminish our fantastic skeleton Gold. I was hoping we would pick up at least one more meddle as well though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdodds Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 It's especially good when looking at the Lottery funding for Winter sports. 2% of the overall funding, it's a farce. The potential is there, there's been good results just a bit more funding could push it. As the lottery though is results based we can safely assume Skeleton is one of the better funded sports in Britain. Still, 1 gold is better than 3 silvers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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