Canada and the Olympics

If you read yesterday’s post, you would have read that Canada had 3 medals! Now here are some updates and further information about it. Canada is currently at spot number 17 of 66 countries that currently hold a medal. Canada at the moment has 2 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals! Yeah, can you believe it?!

From watching us play and compete and get nothing, to finally getting a total of 9 medals at the moment. We’re making our way up, … slowly! The top 5 countries with the most gold medals in the Beijing Olympics 2008, at the moment, are:

  • 5) Germany with 23 medals total [9 Gold, 7 Silver, 7 Bronze]
  • 4) Australia with 33 medals total [11 Gold, 10 Silver, 12 Bronze]
  • 3) Great Britain with 27 medals total [12 Gold, 7 Silver, 7 Bronze]
  • 2) United States of America with 72 medals total [22 Gold, 24 Silver, 26 Bronze]
  • 1) China with 67 medals in total [39 Gold, 14 Silver, 14 Bronze]

Us fellow Canadians who have not been following up with the Olympics but are curious to know what medals we’ve won – keep checking back while I still figure out what we’ve won too!

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