Metal Standings from Italy

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, February 22, 2026 9:38 AM

Nice!

Looking at the way they do the standings, it's priority by medal type.

Meaning, that if a country had 10 gold medals, but zero silver and bronze, they'd still be right behind the Netherlands and Italy right now, even though Netherlands has 20 medals total and Italy has 30 total. And Netherlands is above Italy even though Italy has 10 more medals, because Netherlands has 7 Silver to Italy's 6 Silver.

Right now, Canada is behind Japan and Austria at 11th place and they all have 5 Gold.

Canada would need 2 more Silver to get ahead of Japan and 3 more Silver to get ahead of Austria, but they only need 1 Gold to get ahead of both of them. You should have that gold for winning against the US team in Hockey this morning.

Unfortunately, that's as high as it gets. I just looked at how many events there are left and with the closing ceremonies scheduled tomorrow, there aren't any individual events left and it looks like there's only Mens hockey, Bobsleigh and Curling finals left, and Canada didn't make the finals for those other two events.

You can't get ahead of Sweden now either, although you'd temporarily be ahead of them if Men's hockey team wins first because you'd be tied for Gold/Silver, but you have 3 more bronze medals than Sweden. But it's Sweden vs. Switzerland for the gold medal in Curling tomorrow too. So whichever team wins the gold doesn't matter. 1 more gold would solidify their rank against Canada, but even if they only got Silver, you'd be tied for Gold medals after the Hockey win, but now Sweden would have one more Silver than Canada with a 2nd place finish in Curling.

Not a bad result for Canada. Been watching them claw their way up from the bottom of the top 20 to finish with 9th place, and helping to keep China out of the Top 10.

And you will end up ahead of Japan too.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:27 AM

Just now realized with a 2nd glance, on the final day of the Olympics, North America and Europe will have shut everyone else in the world out of the top 10.

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BRENDA

Sunday, February 22, 2026 12:16 PM

I noticed that too about the standings.

I know. Our athletes will come home to a rousing welcome to be sure. We often have to claw our way up the standings. That's why I said it is good to be in the double digits a couple of days ago.

BRENDA

Sunday, February 22, 2026 12:18 PM

I noticed that too about the standings.

I know. Our athletes will come home to a rousing welcome to be sure. We often have to claw our way up the standings. That's why I said it is good to be in the double digits a couple of days ago.

BRENDA

Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:53 PM

Okay your mens team won gold. We are going to get you and your little dog Toto next time. And it will be fiendish plan that you won't see coming.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 23, 2026 12:12 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Okay your mens team won gold. We are going to get you and your little dog Toto next time. And it will be fiendish plan that you won't see coming.

What!!!!!

I haven't talked to my Dad yet today. Going to have to see what he thought of the game.

Lots and lots and lots of money in (sadly) legalized phone app gambling today.

Our own NCAA (college basketball) saw 26 athletes arrested for point shaving last month.

I almost wonder...

Sorry about that Brenda... That kept you out of the Top 10 and Japan in the Top 10. :(

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 23, 2026 3:56 AM

My old man missed the win because he went to church, but he watched the game up until the 3rd period tie.

He doesn't believe it was faked, and said it was because of Canada's dominance in the sport, how many Canadians play on US teams and their own pride in their Hockey teams. Not just in the Olympics, but in the NHL in general. My reply to that was "I'm sure at least 80% or 90% of them do have all of that. But nobody is going to convince me that ALL Canadian athletes are just "better people" than US athletes are because they're north of our border. Especially not when most of them play professionally and even live here."

He also went on to say that the US/Canada Hockey teams aren't made up primarily of black people either. And my only reply to that was "Shoeless Joe Jackson wasn't black, was he?" No response.

This is one that will probably never be investigated because neither side would ever have any desire to do so. Trump video called the US team in the locker room immediately after the game was over to congratulate them. Canadian pride in their own official pastime would be shattered if it were ever found out that any Canadian athletes were involved in a point-shaving scheme on behalf of the evil crypto-bookies that are fleecing low-impulse control idiots of their wealth through phone apps.

Also, to add, both the men's and women's Canadian Curling Teams of 2026 have been accused of cheating.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dne166pwlo

So something else to keep in mind here.

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BRENDA

Monday, February 23, 2026 6:32 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Okay your mens team won gold. We are going to get you and your little dog Toto next time. And it will be fiendish plan that you won't see coming.

What!!!!!

I haven't talked to my Dad yet today. Going to have to see what he thought of the game.

Lots and lots and lots of money in (sadly) legalized phone app gambling today.

Our own NCAA (college basketball) saw 26 athletes arrested for point shaving last month.

I almost wonder...

Sorry about that Brenda... That kept you out of the Top 10 and Japan in the Top 10. :(

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I remember about the gambling scandal in your basketball. It was terrible.

S'okay.

My understanding is it was a very tight game like the ladies.

BRENDA

Monday, February 23, 2026 6:35 AM

Oh Canadian pride will hurt for a bit. But our hockey athletes will still be welcomed home as good sports who played their hearts out.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 23, 2026 6:49 AM

Yeah... I'm just a cynic by nature. And I'll bet I'm one of only a few Americans who think shenanigans happened here. We've only gotten gold 3 times in Hockey in history, and the last time we did I was a baby.

Nobody expected the US to win today, and then they did. And this ain't the 1980's and I stopped believing in miracles a long time ago.

And with all the rampant cheating and point shaving going on all over the place because Polymarket is sucking the soul right out of competitive sports, a win like this has me asking real questions that I don't think anybody on either side is ever going to even want to ask.

The US because of Pride, and Canada because of Pride.

I can't be sure that there was any point-shaving going on here.

But all I can say is that it was the Perfect Crime if they did do it.

Because going into it they knew that nobody would ever investigate it.

I've spoken my piece about it and I'm done talking about it. This is so low on my priority list of potential crimes and scams in 2026 that I'm not going to lose any sleep thinking about it when nobody else has any incentive to.

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