Them people at the Associated Press have much bigger balls than economist Daniel Johnson and his team. Why? Because they not only predicted the number of medals that a national team will harvest in Vancouver, they are also predicting the individual medalists (see below). If that is not chutzpah, we don’t know what is. But [...]
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Vancouver 2010 Medal Predictions – Daniel Johnson
Canada’s hometown advantage will help it win the most medals in the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. Well, that’s not surprising really, all Olympic host nations benefit from a home-field advantage. Anyhoo, here’s a prediction by economist Daniel Johnson and his team on how the top national Olympic teams will fare in the medal race.
Cherie Piper, Ice Hockey: Winter Olympian of the Day
The Vancouver Winter Games is still a year away but let’s start featuring some athletes who are expected to do well in their respective fields. Olympic fans, meet Canadian hockey player Cherie Piper. Cherie joined the National Team in 2001 and has helped the team win a World Championship Gold medal in 2004 and Olympic [...]
Dude Fight: Adam Van Koeverden vs Elvis Stojko
They’re not really fighting but they’re also kind of fighting. Contradictory, eh? If you remember our earlier post, we reported that Elvis Stojko, a two-time figure skating Olympic gold medalist, urged Canadian athletes to boycott the Beijing Olympic Games in the name of human rights. Adam Van Koeverden, world and Olympic kayak champion, is having [...]
Weird
Did you know that some events in the Winter Olympics have a very small number of “practitioners”? This is according to a group of women ski jumpers which is planning to sue the Vancouver Organizing Committee to have women’s ski jumping included in the Vancouver Olympics. From AP: Supporters of women’s ski jumpers argue there [...]
