Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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Olympic Women's Gold Medal Hockey Game: Canada wins against the U.S. 3-2. That was on Thursday.
Olympic Men's Gold Medal Hockey Game: Canada wins against the U.S. 5-2. Just finished over an hour ago.
CANADA WINS DOUBLE GOLD!!! WHOO HOO!!
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Well, you all were so upset about the curling, the rest of the world got together and thought they'd try to give you something, at least. . . 8)
Kidding. Congrats, and heartily deserved. It was a really good game, that.
But. . . The American team, Christ what a bunch of sore fucking losers. All the thousands of other athletes who came from all over the world, did their personal best, yet never got anywhere near getting a podium place, let alone a Silver, would probably have been up there quite happily instead of the Group Sulk that the US team got going.
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Yeah. We were chuffed simply to get a bronze in a skiing event.
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I've just roused myself from the kind of drunken stupor that leads to the whole Bob & Doug McKenzie-esque stereotyping of Canadians. But man, oh man.
Best.
Game.
Ever.
Fuckinghellyeah.
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and just for some icing on the cake I found this in the Toronto Star
quote:Thus did the ice-making team at the E Center � brought down from Canada because of their expertise in such matters � plant just a bit of luck, a bit of a charm, right into the ice surface itself: a single loonie, buried at centre ice, hardly visible above the surface.
Thanks for letting us make the ice.
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the american team soar losers for sulking? what about other countries who created international scandals or threatened to pull out of the games when they didn't win? i don't think that being down after you expect to win constitutes being a sore loser. if anything, the US team has been a very good sport when it comes to not winning expected gold. besides, if there had been a US coin under the center ice the US would have won womens and mens gold in hockey. fucking cheaters. the "loonie" probably had an anti-american subspace field or something . good game by the way, and congrats. it's nice that the US conquered the bobsled drought and canada conquered the hockey drought.
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Actually, Lee, if you'd compare the reaction of the American men to the American women, they were downright sportsmanlike. Sulkiness reigned supreme when our ladies whupped their butts the other day.
Oh, and one idle question... did the telecast of the game over there just reuse North American commentators, or did the TV channel go out and find the only two Brits who knew enough about ice hockey to do good play-by-play?
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Just heard that the loonie was dug out and was give to Wayne and will reside in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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is the other side of that coin silver with gold in the middle? there was a picture of the coin that was under the center ice on NBC, and it was definitely sliver with gold in the middle.
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Perhaps it was a toonie then? A two dollar coin.
As for the Americans being sore lossers I would say you couldn't have been farther from the truth. I think they played a fine game and the American press has had nothing but praise for the Canadian team today. http://www.nypost.com/sports/olympics/39535.htm
This has been echoed in every sports article I have read in the American press.
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Gretz showed off a loonie after the game, anyway.
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