why Bode Miller not win the gold medal in the winter olympics 2006?
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Bode has not won a single DH in the current World Cup season.  In fact, his only victory this year was in a GS event.  So, why is anyone surprised that he placed 5th at Torino?   He came into the event ranked 7th in DH.  So you can say that he actually did better than expected.\n\nBlame the the NBC-driven, US hype machine for inflating expectations.  He's a great athlete having a lousy season.  The Torino result is par for the course.
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He is not listed as an Olympic medalist on the official site:\n\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp\n\nI found reference to him saying he was silver medalist in the 1998 World Cup in Freestyle Wresting.
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I dont know if you'll get many answers in this forum... this is Winter Sports :)
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I thought I read they took the Bronze.\n\nAnyway.....  Many NHL Players are from Canada & Europe now.\nFor example, the Devil's Goalie Martin Brodure is from Canada and was the Canadian Goalie. \nSo having NHL Players in the Olympics helps many countries not just the USA!
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Because most of the sports are similar(except curling)in winter olympic, and it has less sports than summer olympic.\nAlso snowbording(the half-pipe)is cool
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Because the Russians that year were heavily favored and were world renowned as one of the most competitive and skilled hockey teams ever. The country devoted millions into developing a hockey team that could crush anybody they faced...and they did just that until they faced the Americans in the Gold medal match. \nBy contrast, the American team was made of college kids and relatively unexperienced players who had never competed in that big of a game before. They were still a good team, but nobody thought they had a chance against the Russians. Think of it as how Rocky beating the Russian, Ivan Drago in Rocky IV was a big deal.
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The chinese duo for skating\nmy worst was that idiot skier bode miller
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Austria had a total of 3 medals in ski jumping: \n-Thomas Morgenstern (gold in large hill competition)\n-Andreas Kofler (silver in large hill competition)\n-Team competiton (gold; team included the two men mentioned above and Martin Koch and Andreas Widhoelzl)\n\nNorway had a total of 4 medals in ski jumping:\n-Lars Bystoel (gold in Normal Hill competition and bronze in large hill competition)\n-Roar Ljoekelsoey (bronze in normal hill competion)\n-Team competition (bronze; team included the two mentioned above and Tommy Ingebrigtsen and Bjoern Einar Romoeren)\n\nFinland had a toal of 2 medals in ski jumping:\n-Matti Hautamaeki (silver in normal hill competition)\n-Team competition (silver; team included Matti, Janne Ahonen, Janne Happonen, and Tami Kiuru.\n\nTheir were a total of 9 medals given out in two individual competitions (normal and large hill) and one team competition
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The Gold medallists in Ice Dancing at the 1998 Winter Olympics were Oksana Frishuk and Evgeny Platov of Russia. The pair had earlier won gold at Lillehammer in 1994.
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Everyone did real good.  But this Olympics were not as much hyped as it was for the games at Salt Lake City in 2002.  The Next games in 2010 will be much closer since it will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada.  Best of luck to those who wil compete in those games as well as those training for the Bejing games in the summer of 2008!
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I think because anything classified as a sporting event it requires a certain degree of athleticism, skill, practice, dedication, and (in the case of team sports) team-work; add in an opportunity to test your levels against others to find out who is best and you have a sporting event(you mentioned NASCAR in your question details... driving a car in a big circle for a couple of hours doesn't require much athleticism either, but it is still considered a sport, right?)\n\nNow why it is considered an Olympic event... well, it is a sport with growing popularity in many countries that participate in the Olympics (Canada, many of the northern European countries, and a growing fan-base in the northern United States), and the Olympics have been a fairground for countries to show off new and/or unusual sporting events from around the world (Ice Dancing... the poor-man's figure skating OR "I'm just doing this until Disney-on-Ice calls me in for an interview!").  Some of the events catch on and become world-wide phenomenons, others fizzle and die.\n\n<Added>I added athleticism to the list of skills needed because there is a degree of athleticism to curling that you don't find in other strategy games (chess, for example). I mean, watch the curlers in the Olympics. They are running around on ICE for Pete's sake! Any time I step on ice I fall on my... personality... but these guys are running up and down the ice as if they were walking in the grass! And it isn't just the shoes they wear. I saw a documentary on the U.S. Olympic curling team and they showed people trying to do it and they were falling all over the place.
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I actually went to the website dr000g provided, and looking through it I found this article: http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/news/news_eng160276.html\n\nBasically, it says that Hubertus von Hohenlohe, who compets in skiing, was "the only Mexican who qualified and the Mexican Olympic Committee decided against sending him as a one-man team."\n...That is basically all that I've been able to find out.
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Clas Thunberg won 2 gold on 500m and 1500m but couln't try for a third medal cause the ice was thawing.\nHe was equal by Johan Gröttumsbraate who won the nordic combiend and the 18 km in the cross-country skiing
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I think that it has little to nothing to do with hockey.  Edmonton is a great hockey city, and they were obviously successful this year.  Pronger didn't have a great regular season, but was a beast in the playoffs, and a legitimate Conn Smythe candidate.\n\nHis family was in St. Louis (a large metropolitan American city) for a while, and probably had some ties to that area.  Rumor is that his wife didn't like living in Edmonton.  I'm sure that it is nothing against Northern Alberta; it's just a different area than the midwest USA.\n\nHas anyone heard if there was any issue with his contract?  Sometimes the Canadian / US dollar exchange and taxes end up being a contractual issue (i.e. the player wants more money to play in Canada).
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I think one of the biggest mistakes that NBC did prior to the Olympics was advertising individuals instead of the games themselves.  Most of the individuals they highlighted did not win and lost badly.  With advertising these individuals, people were looking for them but when they heard at 2 o'clock in the afternoon that they had lost, why would they want to watch?\n\nAnother thing they could have done to improve ratings was to advertise the events that were being shown live rather than just the prime time coverage.\n\nRealistically though, the winter Olympics has an image problem (hear what Braynt Gumbel said about them?) and nothing that NBC could do would fix them.  The winter olympics is a stark contrast to the summer games in that many of the winter events are the games of rich people requiring lots of cash to be able to compete in them.  The olympics has lost its edge in the public perception due to the end of the cold war, no longer are we competing against Communism (if only we could teach the middle east to bobsled than maybe we can drum up some interest in that sport) we are competing against fellow wealthy nations who are the country's friends.
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2006 Olympic silver medalist in halfpipe \n2003,2005 Winter X Games superpipe champion \nDominated in 2003, winning virtually everything including World Championships, X Games and the overall Grand Prix \nThree-time Vans Triple Crown of Snowboarding’s champion (2001-03)
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no way! come on get a life. olympics come once every 2 years and winter olympics come once every 4 years! try something new. look at skeliten or downhill ski racing instead.