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Commonwealth Games 2018


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8 hours ago, nitinsanker said:

good day for Canada and are beginning to catch up to India for the third place .... 

 

Hope India hold on but with Boxing, Badminton TT and Wrestling ....hope we can hold on to third place that would be the best we have done except when hosting 

These games have been a disaster for Canada. I don't think I have ever seen any games for any country with this amount of bad luck. There is no reason why a country sits 20 gold medals less than four years ago... India on the other hand has had really good luck (unlike Glasgow 2014). 

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1 minute ago, intoronto said:

These games have been a disaster for Canada. I don't think I have ever seen any games for any country with this amount of bad luck. There is no reason why a country sits 20 gold medals less than four years ago... India on the other hand has had really good luck (unlike Glasgow 2014). 

 

It's not bad luck, the athletes just haven't been good enough on the day

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It doesn't help that the games are in April, the start of the season for many sports. Sure all of the other nations are at the same disadvantage, except for Australia whom no doubt have been peaking for this moment. It also doesn't help that Canada and Australia overlap in events that they are good at.

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Just now, JoshMartini007 said:

It doesn't help that the games are in April, the start of the season for many sports. Sure all of the other nations are at the same disadvantage, except for Australia whom no doubt have been peaking for this moment. It also doesn't help that Canada and Australia overlap in events that they are good at.

 

South Africa and all the other pacific islands are in season as well

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18 minutes ago, juddy96 said:

 

It's not bad luck, the athletes just haven't been good enough on the day

I agree but there has been a lot of unluck as well

-Damian Warner

-Emily Batty (her bike had problems apparently yesterday)

-Benefito yday was leading and overtaken by an Australian on the last day (who imo was overscored) 

-Women's 3m springboard synchronized had problems with the weather, they were gold medal faves

-Darsigny/Santavy were unlucky to win gold, they were both faves. PNG lifter in the men's event came out of no where. 

-Rhythmic gymnasts should have won gold in the team event had they performed the same as in the all-around. 

-The women's artistic team should have swept the golds (judging by qualification), but I guess ran out of stamina by the time individual finals came around.

=9 golds that should have tilted too Canada.

-32!!! Fourth place finishes so far as a bonus

 

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Just now, intoronto said:

I agree but there has been a lot of unluck as well

-Damian Warner

-Emily Batty (her bike had problems apparently yesterday)

-Benefito yday was leading and overtaken by an Australian on the last day (who imo was overscored) 

-Women's 3m springboard synchronized had problems with the weather, they were gold medal faves

-Darsigny/Santavy were unlucky to win gold, they were both faves. PNG lifter in the men's event came out of no where. 

-Rhythmic gymnasts should have won gold in the team event had they performed the same as in the all-around. 

-The women's artistic team should have swept the golds (judging by qualification), but I guess ran out of stamina by the time individual finals came around.

=9 golds that should have tilted too Canada.

-32!!! Fourth place finishes so far as a bonus

 

 

Weather affects everyone. Warner's loss was his own fault, that isn't unlucky. He's been around long enough, it was his mistake to not come in earlier. Qualification doesn't mean anything if you can't perform in the final, again that's not bad luck, nerves and tiredness are totally different. PNG lifter was the defending champion, it wasn't out of nowhere. The only true bad luck was Batty if she did have bike issues, because she can't control that and nobody else had to deal with it.

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