USA 5 Canada 3 What More can you say?

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Originally Posted by RawAlex

They are just setting it up for next time. The winter olympics is in Russia in 4 years, and I suspect they will "own the podium" at that point.

Prolly not. If there is one thing I do know, its Russians. They could do it if they were still well off and a major power to spend like the Chinese. But since the Soviet Union imploded they aren't willing to spend the resources and nor is there the national will. My opinion is look to the Chinese.

"Russian athletes, trainers and sport officials blamed bad luck, lousy weather, equipment failure, echoes of previous doping scandals, judges' bias and other factors for its dismal showing. "Team Russia has already won gold for the multiple excuses of its losses," a popular Moscow tabloid scoffed.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for the resignation of the nation's top Olympic officials Monday after the country's worst performance in a Winter Olympics in nearly a hundred years.