RUSSIA
Mother Russia is the greatest! Soon the gold will be ours.




CANADA
Must win gold. Must win gold. Gold and getting better each day, that's all we think about.




SWEDEN
It certainly would be nice if we won gold, wouldn't it?




FINLAND
Why do we never win gold? Something always goes wrong...




CZECH REPUBLIC
It's so depressing when we don't win gold, like a Kafka novel




USA
Man, these European cities are beautiful!




SLOVAKIA
If Peter Bondra came out of retirement, we'd win gold





SWITZERLAND
If we didn't have so much gold in our bank vaults, we'd probably want gold more





BELARUS
Hey, we'll take any old medal...we're not picky





LATVIA
If we win gold, our fans will go insane! If we play relegation, our fans will go insane!





NORWAY
We're known more for black metal than for gold





DENMARK
Hans Christian Andersen's Happy Prince was covered with gold -- unlike us





FRANCE
With our great literature, cuisine, and romantic prowess, we 'ave no need of this vulgar...'ow do you call it?...gold





GERMANY
As the hosts, we're guaranteed a berth in the gold medal game...wait, we're not???





ITALY
What's gold?




KAZAKHSTAN
Yeah, we were wondering about that too