Official Commonwealth Games Thread!

[Guest Sundancefisher]

http://www.cbc.ca/commonwealthgames/schedu...-broadcast.html

 

We won our first gold of the games in the swimming competition. I marvel at how little attention appears to be directed at Canada's efforts given we just had an exciting Olympics. Maybe people are not hearing about it in the media to get excited.

 

Anyways...always great to support our athletic efforts!

 

GO TEAM CANADA GO!

[bigbowtrout]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/i...he_commonw.html

[Guest Sundancefisher]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/i...he_commonw.html

 

17 gold 10 silver 22 bronze

 

Regardless of whether the US is participating or not...this is a high caliber competition and our athletes trained hard and are competing for Canada. Nice to see they winning some medals. I only wish I was half as good. Having a commonwealth medal in your house is still a great accomplishment!

[Guest Sundancefisher]

25 GOLD; 15 SILVER; 32 BRONZE

 

72 medals total for Canada...top 4 so far.

 

Medal leaders

 

Australia 152 medals

England 119 medals

India 89 medals

 

India population 1.2 billion

England population 62 million

Australia population 22.5 million

Canada population 34 million

 

Australia sure is kicking butt...but Canada relative to it's population is doing very well indeed.

 

Interesting historical stats

 

Games Gold Silver Bronze Total

1930 Hamilton (host) 20 15 19 54

1934 London 17 25 9 51

1938 Sydney 13 16 15 44

1950 Auckland 8 9 13 30

1954 Vancouver (host) 9 20 14 43

1958 Cardiff 1 10 16 27

1962 Perth 4 12 15 31

1966 Kingston 14 20 23 57

1970 Edinburgh 18 24 24 66

1974 Christchurch 25 19 18 62

1978 Edmonton (host) 45 31 33 109

1982 Brisbane 26 23 33 82

1986 Edinburgh 51 34 31 116

1990 Auckland 35 41 37 113

1994 Victoria (host) 40 42 47 129

1998 Kuala Lumpur 30 31 38 99

2002 Manchester 31 41 46 118

2006 Melbourne 26 30 31 87

Total 413 443 462 1318

 

 

3 DAYS LEFT TO GO!

 

GO TEAM GO!