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Title: IOC to investigate Canadian women's hockey team for celebration
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URL Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/va ... -s-hockey-team-?urn=oly,224338
Published: Feb 26, 2010
Author: Chris Chase
Post Date: 2010-02-26 11:44:33 by freepatriot32
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Keywords: IOC, investigate, Canadian women, celebration
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The International Olympic Committee will investigate the actions of Canadian women's hockey players who celebrated their gold medal victory Thursday night by swigging beer and smoking cigars on the ice in Vancouver. A number of players, including 18-year-old superstar Marie-Philip Poulin, were drinking alcohol on the ice following the team's 2-0 defeat of the United States. (The legal drinking age in British Columbia is 19.) Players lingered for more than 70 minutes after the awards ceremony reveling in the arena, which was empty except for media and arena staff. (Click here to view a slideshow of the celebration.) Gilbert Felli, the IOC's executive director of the Olympic Games, said that drinking in public was "not what we want to see" from athletes at an Olympic venue. The organization will investigate the actions and will speak with the international hockey federation and Canadian Olympic Committee and ask them to "act accordingly." Steve Keough, a spokesman for the Canadian Olympic Committee, told the Associated Press, “We condone celebrations. … We don’t condone actions of irresponsibility. I think Canadians understand it’s quite an emotional moment for our team. It was not our intention to go against any IOC protocols.” To be sure, the Canadian women's hockey team should have acted with more class and been a little more discreet with its celebration. But to do something drastic like ban the team from the Closing Ceremony or force them out of the Olympic Village would be an overreaction. In past Olympics we've seen steroids, political boycotts, cheating and judging scandals. A few puffs of a cigar hardly seems to be in the same league.
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Gee, Canadian beer and those Cuban cigars you can buy in Canada but not in the US. Those hockey champs really know how to rub our faces in it! Maybe those women should do what Brandi Chastain did when her team won the gold in women's soccer ... and pull their shirts off. Nobody complained about that. {PS: The women didn't have this celebration until about an hour after the last events in the ice rink -- after EVERYONE had left the building. In fact none of the Olympic officials knew it happened until a journalist snitched on them the next day. And the legal drinking age in Alberta, where the team trains, is 18 years old.}
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