I think there's a misconception that Canada is that far away from the rest of the world. It's definitely the top right now, but it's not like it's miles away. And so whenever somebody gets close to overtaking them people freak out.
Not so sure about that..imagine if Duchene,Skinner, Fowler, Hall, Seguin, Evander Kane were all playing in this tournament..not sure it'd even be a competition.
Well the way I'm seeing it:
Hockey = Canada's sport #1
Skiing = Austrian's sport #1
Baseball = American's sport #1
Soccer = Brasil
Golf = Scottland
England = Polo
I'm glad that its not always the big and very immigranted countries who are dominating everything, otherwise we would see the tons of states merged into "one" named USA ruling all of these sports. Nothing against the people in the US I just don't like the idea of merging countries. I'm heavily against the oversea project named "European Union" too
Canada will continue to dominate in hockey no doubt about that for sure they won't win gold every year but given their almost endless talentpool they should be very very fine for years to come.
I think one thing that should be said is that Canada's vast talent pool has been constant over the past decade. However, our competitors (US in particular) have increased their talent pool steadily each year. Usually there are ebbs and flows when it comes to talent. (in particular, Russia, Sweden and Czech are examples of this). But the US have noticeably increased their talent pool over the past 10 years.
If beer-drinking was a sport, we would dominate like nobody's business. There are only 2 things Canadians take seriously:
1. Hockey
2. Beer
Finns take drinking pretty serious, maybe more than canadiens do. Believe me, beer is more like a religion here. (not saying I drink, just generalizing little)