orangeman 1,359 Posted August 17, 2016 #411 Share Posted August 17, 2016 I wasn't born when it actually happened in 1976, but CBC used to show Greg Joy's silver medal jump from Montreal during the anthem when they signed off for the night (I realize this means nothing to some of you children ). It would be grand if CBC had enough self awareness to reproduce that tonight with Drouin's gold medal jump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman 1,359 Posted August 17, 2016 #412 Share Posted August 17, 2016 3 minutes ago, juddy96 said: Considering we had no athletes that were big favourites for the gold, this is a really good result to have 3 golds. Different judges or a slightly worse touch at the wall and we could have 1 gold And that's sport. Even us Olympics geeks, who ever heard of Penny Oleksiak two weeks ago? Now she's mentioned in the same breath as Donovan Bailey, Clara Hughes and Cindy Klassen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juddy96 171 Posted August 17, 2016 Author #413 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Just now, orangeman said: And that's sport. Even us Olympics geeks, who ever heard of Penny Oleksiak two weeks ago? Now she's mentioned in the same breath as Donovan Bailey, Clara Hughes and Cindy Klassen. I did, and some swim experts predicted her to make final in some events Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman 1,359 Posted August 17, 2016 #414 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Just now, juddy96 said: I did, and some swim experts predicted her to make final in some events Well, I mean I read her name so I was familiar. But never expected what she delivered. No one predicted what happened in the pool, not even their coaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james89 468 Posted August 17, 2016 #415 Share Posted August 17, 2016 I thought that Penny would do well for a Canadian in swimming, making the finals of her individual events and finish last. Or had the outside potential to give Canada a relay bronze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,352 Posted August 17, 2016 #416 Share Posted August 17, 2016 14 minutes ago, orangeman said: I got some bad news today (not that bad, everyone's healthy) and I really needed a win. Thought the soccer girls would deliver, but I'll take this. This feels good. Oh, and the whiskey. I hope everything ends up all right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada4thewin 90 Posted August 17, 2016 #417 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Medal #14 Woohoo And the week is not over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman 1,359 Posted August 17, 2016 #418 Share Posted August 17, 2016 15 minutes ago, intoronto said: I hope everything ends up all right Thank you. It's not that serious, like I said. But Drouin certainly let me forget about it for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman 1,359 Posted August 17, 2016 #419 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Ok, now on to basketball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,232 Posted August 17, 2016 #420 Share Posted August 17, 2016 27 minutes ago, orangeman said: And that's sport. Even us Olympics geeks, who ever heard of Penny Oleksiak two weeks ago? Now she's mentioned in the same breath as Donovan Bailey, Clara Hughes and Cindy Klassen. I mean, I had since she was sort of the star of the trials. But I had not heard much of her before the trials (only heard about her because of Taylor Ruck, who was seen as a bigger potential breakout star a year ago). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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