Who wins Most Medals at Olympics?

[alexander]

oh, i should also mention norway's silver and bronze in the men's 20k individual biathlon, as well as germany's gold, frances gold in men's donhill, russia's bronze in the wome's 15k pursuit, canadian gold and norway's silver in the women's freestyle skiing event, italian gold and russian silver in men's louge, it was sad to see south korea take first and second in the 1500 short track, canada took bronze in women's 3000m speedskate... (dont get upset if i didnt call your country's gold silver or bronze, i am just looking at the main contenders for most medals here (except for france :hihi: )

[TheBigDog]

Since when are Norway and the Netherlands two different countries? And how about Denmark, isn't that part of Netherway too? Doesn't that put the medal count at somenthing like 10?

 

The Ugly American

[alexander]

no, denmark is a country located north of germany, south west of sweeden and south of norway, it is still a constitutional monarchy, it is located on a peninsula just north of germany, it is located across the north sea from norway, therefore it would be hard to even consider it a part of norway, you'd be better off guessing that its a part of germany....

 

netherlands also borders north sea, germany and belgium, also happens to be a constitutional monarchy, and once again you would be better off guessing that it is a part of germany, but yet again, it was hardly ever that, it was a part of the roman empire, never was a part of prussia, so therefore the only time it was controlled by germans was WWI and WWII, kinda similar case with denmark, so....

[pgrmdave]

I think that the US is poised to win the most medals, and most likely the most gold medals. However, the only sport that I really watch is hockey, and I don't think that the US will win men's or women's. Canada looks to be an very strong contender for them.

[Tormod]

Since when are Norway and the Netherlands two different countries? And how about Denmark, isn't that part of Netherway too? Doesn't that put the medal count at somenthing like 10?

 

The Ugly American

 

You mean the Dutch Swedmarkway? :hihi:

[Tormod]

Congrats USA with gold and silver in halfpipe!!! Norway got the bronze. :hihi:

[Guadalupe]

Congrats USA with gold and silver in halfpipe!!! Norway got the bronze. ;)

 

 

Congrats on you Bronze, and may Norway prosper in winning more medals. :)

 

 

:hihi:

[Tormod]

Americans sure dominate the snowboarding events!! :hihi: :eek:

 

Bah...the Americans learned it all from the Norwegians...:)

 

How'd you like that Curling Tormod??? heehee :)

 

They're just warming up...:eek:

[Tormod]

Lefse!!!!

 

This is probably a national crime but hey what we do for friends. :eek2:

 

Lefse Recipe

Norwegian Bread

 

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c Boiling water

2 tb Butter

1/2 ts Salt

1 c Rye flour

1 c All-purpose flour

1 c Whole wheat flour

 

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450f. In a large bowl, combine water, butter, salt, rye flour and all-purpose flour and beat well. Stir in whole wheat flour and beat until you have a smooth dough that resembles dough for a baking powder biscuit. Divide dough into 4 parts. Cut each portion into quarters.

 

Flour a board and roll each piece of dough to make a thin 10- to 12-inch circle. If desired, use lefse rolling pin to make a pattern on the dough. Place 2 or 3 dough circles on ungreased baking sheet. Bakein preheated oven 3 to 5 minutes--NOT until completely browned. Cool on a rack. Wrap airtight.

[IrishEyes]

Only at a science forum, in a topic about the winter Olympics, will you find a recipe for Norwegian bread... :eek2:

 

Love live Hypography, keeper of the happy tummies worldwide!

[alexander]

wow you guys, white bread not really good for any diet, although i need to get a recepie of this flat bread i've been byung from a moldovan woman, she makes it crazy good, maybe she'll share the recepie, although i doubt that :) but its soo incredibly good, literaly, you could eat the entire flat bread just cuz it is so good, and then exercise for 3-4 hours to work off the bread :eek2:

[Tormod]

PS How much wax is under the label of Jarlsberg? Do you just peel the label over in Norway, or cut down a bit after peeling the label? Please excuse my cheesy ignorance.:) :D

 

Way too much! :) We peel it off, yeah.

 

Oh, and our women's curling team beat the US team 11-4 yesterday. HEhehehehe.

 

:eek2:

[Tormod]

We just got three more medals... silver in the men's cross country sprint and silver and bronze in the 10K biathlon.

 

Seems the gold medals aren't pouring in like last time...but we still rule on the medal count. :eek2:

 

Congrats to SWEDEN for snatching the two golds in the cross country sprint! Both men's and women's. 12 years since their last gold in a Winter Olympics (ice hockey at Lillehammer, Norway, IIRC)!

[Tormod]

My Grandmother loves it! And My goal is to make the perfect Lesfe...??

Perhaps I will have to travel to Norway to find the Secret Key...

 

Any time, Racoon. :eek2:

[Drip Curl Magic]

oh, jeez.... I have no idea who to root for....

 

Since I live in the US I am always compelled to root for the home team.

 

But I've also got tons of heritage.

 

I'm an 8th Norweigen, so I gotta root for them (especially since they are leading in medal count ATM :))

 

But I also love Canada so much.

 

Beautiful place, beautiful people, beautiful culture.

 

Ugh, I'm torn, so I ended up voting for Japan. Why? I dunno :eek2:

[Tormod]

I like Sports Illustrated's medal list - they list by number of medals and not by number of golds:

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2006/medals/tracker/

 

Way to go USA for taking the alpine compined gold!

[Tormod]

We got both silver and bronze in the women's 10K cross country today. ;) But the curling team isn't doing too well (and they are the defending champions).