Olympics: After loss to USA, Candadian yanks medal off her neck

[Ehrenpanzer]

Yanked or taken, whatever way you want to describe it, at least she didnt toss it into the stands like the Finnish junior player...

[Machismo]

I think someone got a little triggered over a person being pissed she lost in the "title" game.

[Collegeguy]

Canadians read too many Tennisace threads and get salty when it doesn't come true.

[Gorgodeus]

The very principle of the olympic games is the competition, not being polite, although I agree good sportsmanship is important it is not the very principle of the olympic games so just don't say something that is not true, it does no good to the discussion.

Words are extremely important, they mean different things and using the right words for the right situation is important. "Yanked it off" illustrate a gesture with agressive attitude, sharp and sudden movement that can be charactecterized as "she did this out of frustration". While "took it off" means she simple took it off neutrally without the agressive display that is understated in "yanked it off". If anything, she look more like she did this out of disappointment in herself than in frustration against her competition.

All in all, I don't think her move was a good idea, she should have handled herself better, I also agree it is not good sportsmanship and it shows disrespect to other silver medalists who are proud of themselves, a silver medal is a hell of an accomplishment and she should be proud, not sad.

Still not a reason to exaggerate the situation and make her look like she's furiously out of control, or even worst: to suggest she needs to be punished, seriously wtf.

Try reading the Olympic Charter.

Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example, social responsibility and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

Sportsmanship is one of the principles of the games.

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Pretty much no coaches, players, commentators, announcers, or GMs agree with you on this.

The USA would have still won it in double OT, Canada was completely flat for two periods. Canada didn't deserve the gold medal for that performance, and if they'd won in the shootout it would have been unfortunate for the US, who were the better team. Shootouts are a bad way to resolve non-regular season games.

We are not talking about NHL games.

[Polyxo]

The thing I'd like to discuss is how Poulin didn't get a match penalty for a flying elbow on Decker's head. That's a multi-game suspension in the NHL. Then she gets a penalty drawn for trying to pull one of our D's sticks away, and falling over when it fails.

[Laerrus]

[jackofwind]

We are not talking about NHL games.

It doesn't make the shootout any better of a way to decide a championship if it's in a professional league or an international competition.

You are in the very small minority of people who think otherwise.

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The thing I'd like to discuss is how Poulin didn't get a match penalty for a flying elbow on Decker's head. That's a multi-game suspension in the NHL. Then she gets a penalty drawn for trying to pull one of our D's sticks away, and falling over when it fails.

Should've been a penalty, but to be fair the NHL is really spotty with suspension lengths. Marchand has gotten warnings and single game suspensions for similar hits.

[Polyxo]

It doesn't make the shootout any better of a way to decide a championship if it's in a professional league or an international competition.

You are in the very small minority of people who think otherwise.

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Should've been a penalty, but to be fair the NHL is really spotty with suspension lengths. Marchand has gotten warnings and single game suspensions for similar hits.

It should've easily been a match penalty.

[Sykol]

It's women's hockey. We don't really care what medal they get up here.

[Swalload]

Try reading the Olympic Charter.

Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example, social responsibility and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

Sportsmanship is one of the principles of the games.

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We are not talking about NHL games.

Remove the medals then if it's clearly not a competition in any way shape or form. Just because it's not written in a description made by a person doesn't mean you have to blind yourself to the obvious reality of things that are maybe not written by said person.

[draykorinee]

Yanked it off >< She took it of over her head.

[jackofwind]

Too big to be a race car driver.

Peace

Shitposting 101

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It's women's hockey. We don't really care what medal they get up here.

To be fair Szabados is a real stud in net.

[Zelk]

I thought participation trophies were meant to be bad though?

[Tiberria]

The thing with women's hockey is that it's not really a legitimate Olympic sport in that it is not, and never has been truly competitive. There are only two countries with a viable/competitive program - USA and Canada. The skill level between the two main countries and the rest of the countries is equivalent to an NFL football team playing a high school team. If you're playing for Canada or USA in women's hockey, you either win gold, or you finished last place for all reasonable purposes.

They probably should pull it out of the Olympics altogether, because it does not have the level of viable world competitiveness that meets the standard for it being a real Olympic sport. Of course, political correctness will prevent that from ever happening, because removing a women's sport while keeping the men's version (and men's hockey is highly competitive across 6-8 nations) would be derided as sexism, etc.

[Allybeboba]

Having an opinion is emotional? LOL OK

If those opinions are different than theirs, of course.

Ever to topic...
Sports Illustrated article about the incident.
https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/02/...-womens-hockey

Peace

[Stop Pretending]

@Tennis why are your country women so disrespectful?

[Kardagh]

There's such thing as a sore winner as well.

[ranzino]

@Tennis why are your country women so disrespectful?

disrespectful to what ?

[ghotihook]

@Tennis why are your country women so disrespectful?

To add to this...What are WE going to do about it?

[Allybeboba]

The thing with women's hockey is that it's not really a legitimate Olympic sport in that it is not, and never has been truly competitive. There are only two countries with a viable/competitive program - USA and Canada. The skill level between the two main countries and the rest of the countries is equivalent to an NFL football team playing a high school team. If you're playing for Canada or USA in women's hockey, you either win gold, or you finished last place for all reasonable purposes.

They probably should pull it out of the Olympics altogether, because it does not have the level of viable world competitiveness that meets the standard for it being a real Olympic sport. Of course, political correctness will prevent that from ever happening, because removing a women's sport while keeping the men's version (and men's hockey is highly competitive across 6-8 nations) would be derided as sexism, etc.

US didn’t even bring their “best” male hockey players. I don’t believe Canada did either. The players that are on the NHL teams couldn’t get insurance so they didn’t travel to South Korea.

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