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Canadian medal projections dropping

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Nate Silver is kind of a genius. He's a predictor of all things political, with a hell of a record, and recently his project, fivethirtyeight.com, has begin to weigh in on the Olympic medal race. As of Thursday, ol' Nate had projected Canada for 31 medals, just two back of the United States.

Nate Silver is kind of a genius.

He's a predictor of all things political, with a hell of a record, and recently his project, fivethirtyeight.com, has begin to weigh in on the Olympic medal race. As of Thursday, ol' Nate had Canada projected for 31 medals, just two back of the United States.

We were OK! We were close! We had a shot in this crazy horse race!

Um, well, yeah. Here's the thing. Mellisa Hollingsworth faltered in skeleton Friday night, and the U.S. kept riocketing ahead, and ... let's just say that the numbers aren't quite so hopeful, now. It's like we don't have a chance to own the podium, or something.

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