USA did not get better...

[Cicero Venatio]

The USA rout in the Winter Olympics is not because the USA got better,
it is obvious the rest of the world got worse. Two reasons I'm
speculating are the global economic depression, and the global warming
fright mongers have so distracted athletes that they can no longer
perform at the razor's edge necessary.

[Brad Anders]

Thanks, I thought it was we had better drugs.

Brad Anders

[Bob Schwartz]

I'm blaming the Canadian goalie.

Bob Schwartz

[Ken Prager]

In article <CbCdnRk1DJy5Ux7W...@earthlink.com>,
Cicero Venatio <jazz...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Keep speculating...

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article <3JmdnQfIMethaB7W...@giganews.com>,
Bob Schwartz <bob.sc...@sbcREMOVEglobal.net> wrote:

An excellent theory. The US also seems to win a lot of medals in the new
sports. Indeed, of winter games sports added in the last 4 games or so,
they seem to all be either women's versions of an extant sport (hockey),
sports derived from the X-Games, curling, or skeleton.

The US does well in women's sports, I think because it has a high
baseline women's-sports participation rate, and it's not competing
against incumbent women's sport traditions in a lot of these new sports
(Russia's women's hockey team, for example, is not in the same league as
Canada and the US).

OTOH, I think this is the first Olympics that an American woman has won
an alpine skiing medal.

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[Michael Press]

In article <CbCdnRk1DJy5Ux7W...@earthlink.com>,
Cicero Venatio <jazz...@hotmail.com> wrote:

¿Que?

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Michael Press