Just because I'm a Brit doesn't mean I think that's a good thing But yeah, that's our area of dominance.

just look at it this way, how higher they fly how harder they come crashing done. (Pyeongchang's gonna suck )

Olympic sports should be universally competitive imo, and indeed it's a requirement for new sports being selected. At least running has a few different nations contesting the medals across the distances (there is some dominance though like Jamaican in the sprints though, I admit).

Sure, some countries are better than others at sport but this is pretty ridiculous, is that 3 1-2-3's now? Not saying it shouldn't be included, but I don't think a single sport should make a country the most successful at the Olympics.

Make it like in the track cycling with one spot per nation. Simple.

But as said, this isn't normal.
Most other countries were really disappointing, we weren't considered the favourites in all of them, let alone that people expected 1-2-3s.

It's sort of the same with swimming in the summer olympics. When you talk about the "All-time Olympian" it's based on medals, and it's almost allways a swimmer who leads on.

Say you can take a gold medal in three Olympiads, that's probably the most one person can do without being exceptionaly good.

A swimmer can take 24(8 swimming events?) gold medals in his career, whilst a pole vaulter can take 3. Who's the better athlete? Hard to say.

*cough* Michael Phelps *cough*

Track Cycling is the same, it's really weird.

I guess so, but at least the medals are (usually) spread out and it's pretty globally competitive.

Not really, it's mainly between the Brits and the Australians.

fyp

don't you forget about America

Not a one country bore-fest by any means though, unless it's a freak of nature like Phelps.

Skobrev (RUS), Bøkko en Pedersen (NOR) Pull back from the 10 km speed skating event.

so the result is already know (as if it wasn't already

Speed Skating, 10km, Men

Ashton Eaton... Or whoever wins the Decathlon! Afterall, those guys have to be good at almost all track and Field events. Its not enough to be good at the 100m and 110mh cause you also have to do the fearsome 400m sprint distance and even worse the 1500m. And all of that in only 2 days.

And some of the times/results they achieve arent too far of the guys who specialise in one discipline!

Speed skating, swimming, track cycling... let them have their medal chances. These sports define themselves by the olympic dream. They lack their own prestigious events (such as Tour de France, Football World Championship, Grand Slam Tournaments etc) and thus need to compensate by a crap load of olympic medals.

but it doesn't make it untrue :'(

Yep, history will always speak about Phelps, who just won 20medals on doing the same in eight events per olympics, while who outside of czech republic will remember Jan Zelezny, who has won 1992, 1996, 2000 Olympics javelin throw and finished second in 1988? In fact, it is much more impressive to win three in the row in just one competition...

Actually, Železny is pretty famous, at least where I am...

They know Železný in the Shire?

Yeah, we should find better example probably.

I'll summerize today in a nutschell
Competition delayed due to weather