I was just fooling around, it should be a good game, its not like Team Canada is playing a bunch of teenage kids on the USA team, most of them are experienced NHLers. Your goalie is on fire, which usually means anything can happen, as seen in the first game. I do expect you guys to get outshot by a fairly large margin though, as Canada has done that to everyone they've played. bnb, the victory celebrations were over the top, its about staying classy and respectful towards your opponents, I thought it was poor judgement on the womens hockey team to do celebrate like that...all of it could have been done behind closed doors and this would not have been an issue.
Actually the Canadian Female Hockey team celebrating in an empty arena rink but it was the stupid media that was still there and leaking it out to the news. So it wasn't like they were doing it while there were people still in the stands.
Bastards! Please, do educate us. mazyar? I blame those damned alpine skiers. They require twice as many as the average Olympian, one for each pole. The Amber Lamps is risen.
From this very thread: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/snowboard/news?slug=jp-lago022010&prov=yhoo&type=lgns The IOC was thrown in the article, but it's not explained how, why or if they had a part in this decision. Which makes me wonder if they confused the IOC with the USOC or USSA...I hate acronyms! In any case, I think my point still stands. Yes, the USOC doesn't hold accountable athletes from other nations, and yes, they want athletes to be model citizens after Peterson's and Phelps' incidents in the past. But Lago's photos were relatively harmless and no worse than what the Canadian hockey team did. Both were celebrating a victory. So while it's not a case of hypocrisy, since these are two separate countries, it is I think further solidifying it as a knee jerk reaction.
There was no disrespect toward their opponents. It was an hour after the game. There were no fans in the building. The 'underage' girl was one month underage in BC, and not underage in Quebec. The IOC is not investigating . Sports Illustrated called it the most authentically cool celebration they've seen. We see 'worse' at every championship celebration...be it NBA, NFL, MLB or NHL. (even Nascar -- if you count that as a sport ). Bahh. No story here. Except fun. And the USOC should have supported Lago too. A snowboarder partying? Who'd a thunk. His photos were a wee bit racier -- but cripes. It's not like he was smokin' weed.....
She is not underage in Quebec - and they have a very European attitude toward drinking in Quebec in any event – and she is not underage in Alberta either, which is where the national team is based. In Quebec she’s probably been able to drink in bars since she was 15 or 16, and in Alberta she’s been able to legally drink for almost a year. Yes, the drinking age in BC is a year higher, so give her a ticket and make her apologise, but there’s not much more to this incident after that.
It looked like Hamelin did make contact on the Korean before he fell. And you could clearly see the Korean grab his skate as he fell. But both seemed incidental compared to Ohno's brazen push. Maybe there would have been some controversy if Hamelin's event happened separately but Ohno's push was so clear that it was impossible not to call that. Or maybe there wouldn't have been any contact between Hamelin if the craziness wasnt going on behind them. Coulda should woulda. I dont know how anyone could say the Korean initiated any contact though. Gotta be blind or biased. I'm not familiar with how Ohno skated when he was younger and faster but speaking as an American, Ohno could have been disqualified in any of his individual events the way he skated in these Olympics. In literally every event save the relay there was at least one heat where Ohno seemed to create contact which he capitalized on. It's like the commentators say havoc follows Ohno whenever he skates lol. Even in the relay Ohno was miraculously able to capitalize on the Chinese anchor's wipeout (although Ohno had absolutely no hand in that one) to go from no medal to bronze medal in the last 10 meters. That's ****ing amazing. I'm honestly not sure what to think about Ohno as an American. He's like Jordan who used to push off, exploit the system and benefit from foul calls, etc. You know he's kind of dirty but he's so damn good at what he does. Exploiting contact/fouls seems to be as much a part of short track as it is in the NBA and Ohno seems to be able to use it to his advantage most of the time. Even with this DQ, seems like a calculated risk he was out of medal contention and he doesn't lose anything from taking out the Canadian skater. Worst case scenario is that everyone remembers that he finished the line second and he can blame politics for his DQ.
I have no doubt Ohno makes contact during at least some of his races...but he's certainly not the only one. I'm sure everybody tries to bend the rules as much as they can. But short track seems so volatile anyways, how can anyone not push and shove even just a little trying to get position. And like the commentators and even Ohno said, he was in fourth position at the time, couldn't find any opening, so he had to take a risk. And while it seemed pretty apparent in real-time that he pushed the Canadian, replays show him just barely touching the guy. So I'm not so sure that cause him to fall. But again it seems about on the same level as Hamlen's push. I guess the only difference is that Hamlen was in a higher position than the Korean and Ohno was in the lower position compared to the other Canadian.
Canada catching up in medals! If Canada beats US in hockey tomorrow it would make an amazing Olympics even better.
US may have the total medal count won, but Canada has the most 1st place finishes. In the end, that is what counts. If you are going to reward 2nd and 3rd place finishes, might as well reward 4th and 5th place too.
Well... the way you worded it... you made it seem like Canada was catching up in total medals. And yes, I know... you crown the Olympic games to the total gold medal country... but Canada's been up since yesterday.
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This means what? Canada also gets AUTOMATIC qualification to every event because they're the host country. So I don't really see your point.
