2010 Winter Olympics

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Napalm Frog

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I hope so. But we still need to get our freaking defence in gear. Each of the Russian goals were due to heavy screens. This results from a poor presence by our defencemen. Oh well, If we can keep our forecheck strong and powerful, it should limit the amount of work that they should have to do on our end of the rink.

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planetik

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To the people who have seen the Korean disqualification: What are your thoughts?

I think it's completely unfair and was misjudged... Even NBC/TSN commentators said that it "looks like the Chinese skater stepped on the Korean skater" (or something to that extent)

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rajputwarrior

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and here comes the crying from the russians

Russia whines about 'cowardly' Canada

February 25, 2010

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Cathal Kelly

The next Winter Olympics is shaping up as a Cold War-style battle between Canada and Russia after a blistering editorial in Pravda labeled us as a nation of cowardly, incompetent war criminals.

The editorial, entitled Vancouver: Mutton Dressed as Lamb, goes straight for the eyes from the outset. ?Vancouver is not fit to hold the Winter Olympics,? it declares in the opening paragraph.

And that was before Canada whipped Russia in the hockey quarter finals. Today, the site was less expansive.

?The Red Machine Runs into a Maple Tree,? was Pravda?s headline. Other newspaper banners across Russia included ?Nightmare in Vancouver? and ?Down and Out.?

Reading back on Pravda?s screed, the schadenfreude will be thick for Canadian supporters. The website?s main athletic complaint is about a short-notice drug test issued to Russian skier Natalya Korosteleva. It neglects to mention that VANOC organizers have no input into the drug-testing regime of any particular sporting body.

It also impugns us for the decision to give the gold medal in men?s figure skating to American Evan Lysacek over Russian Evgeni Plushenko ? as if we had some say in that, either.

The writer, Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, seems mainly distressed by Canada?s political aims.

?We all know Canada has problems with the future lines drawn on Arctic maps and we all know Canada lives in the shadow of its larger neighbour to the south,? he writes about something we don?t all know.

Had he left it there, we might have shrugged it off. But then it gets personal.

?The abject cruelty shown by Canadian soldiers in international conflicts is scantily referred to, as indeed is the utter incapacity of this county to host a major international event, due to its inferiority complex, born of a trauma being the skinny and weakling bro to a beefy United States and a colonial outpost to the United Kingdom, whose Queen smiles happily from Canadian postage stamps.?

Wow.

?Maybe it is this which makes the Canadians so ? retentive, or cowardly.?

Double-wow.

While the British press has been no fan of these games, even they were taken aback by the viciousness of Pravda?s attack.

?Even more diligent critics of Vancouver 2010 have been astonished by the editorial,? the Times of London wrote today.

Last night, Russian hockey stars were being ? well ? Russian about their loss.

?We wanted to play as well as we could, but things turned out ? you know the rest yourselves ? like always,? Alexander Ovechkin told Sport Express.

Pravda notes that Ovechkin?s queer phrasing is a takeoff on a famed political quote, the ?like always? used popularly to lament Russia?s frequent sporting letdowns. In that, at least, Toronto and our Russian friends have some common ground.

Asked about rumours that his charges had been enjoying Vancouver?s nightlife a little too much, Russian coach Vyacheslav Bykov rounded on the media.

?Let's get the guillotine or the gallows out, yeah?? Bykov sneered at Sovietski Sport. ?We have 35 people in the squad. Let?s cut them all up on Red Square.?

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qdave

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?The abject cruelty shown by Canadian soldiers in international conflicts is scantily referred to, as indeed is the utter incapacity of this county to host a major international event, due to its inferiority complex, born of a trauma being the skinny and weakling bro to a beefy United States and a colonial outpost to the United Kingdom, whose Queen smiles happily from Canadian postage stamps.?

Gold :D

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Denis W. Veteran

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and here comes the crying from the russians

This says it all:

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*runs away*

True... And seeing Gretzky next to Stephen Harper singing the anthem together made me shudder.

Yeah well, let him have his fine moment now; he'll need it next month when he gets grilled to hell and back ;)

Anyways... GOLD :D

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Azies

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Too bad the refs were Canadian sided and didn't call the the penalties properly. Now there is an investigation by the Olympic committee about inappropriate behavior on the ice after the game, so the Canadian team might lose their medals.

Oh, I agree with the Russians too, Vancouver wasn't fit to host the Olympics.

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twist

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^ i dont think anyone will strip them of medals.

Can't wait for sweedes beating usa, and slovaks beating canada today :) SOmehow i know that it wont happen, and usa will play against canada again, with canada loosing.

you're right, the swedes are not going to beat the usa, they lost to slovakia.

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Joni_78

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^ i dont think anyone will strip them of medals.

Can't wait for sweedes beating usa, and slovaks beating canada today :) SOmehow i know that it wont happen, and usa will play against canada again, with canada loosing.

:huh:

Swedes are already back in Sweden, they lost to Slovakia.

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