This was a terrific Olympics for the USA. With the expansion of the program and improved national efforts on our part, we took more medals this time around than anybody, ever. Over the last three winter Olympics, the US has won more medals than our previous 10 Olympics combined. We even took four nordic medals for cripes sake. And NASCAR helped us win the gold in bob sled! There was a long period where US medals in just about any sport in the winter Olympics were the exception, not the rule. Hopefully, those days are gone for good. Remember, we don't have government involvement in developing our Olympicans, private money, private efforts. So we celebrate the many victories, and learn from the losses, as we prepare for Sochi. IMHO, a much tougher challenge than Vancouver.
Oh yes, to our Canadian friends: congratulations on a good Olympics and your record breaking efforts in them. Don't let that gold medal in hockey delude you into thinking it's a birth right. It isn't. One of these days. . .
