Women's Hockey Team Booz-Up
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First of all this is a special once in a life time occasion, second who was harmed by it? Is drinking beer and champaign an evil thing? All I can say is if this is F-----g news, then it's getting to be a dull world. So one participant was a month shy of the legal age- I guess none of us drank before the appointed date. What would you like to see happen? The game winning participant shackled and hauled off to jail? Maybe this comes under the heading of MINDING YOUR OWN F------G BUSINESS.
OH BUT #Juan, one of the participants was 30 days shy of being legal. Maybe her team mates are to blame for contributing to juvenile delinguency and should be shackled, hand cuffed and hauled off to jail to be processed to the fullest extent of the law...................at least that would make one poster happy................:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Response to post #3.
I smoked for 30 years, then gave it up cold turkey, and said many times (AND I MEANT IT) that no amount of money could ever entice me to go back to smoking again.
However, if I had the talent, strength, ambition, desire and work ethic to be a part of a Gold Medal Winning Olympic team, I would join my team mates for a few puffs on a cigar.
This is nothing but a tempest in a tea pot.
I smoked for 30 years, then gave it up cold turkey, and said many times (AND I MEANT IT) that no amount of money could ever entice me to go back to smoking again.
However, if I had the talent, strength, ambition, desire and work ethic to be a part of a Gold Medal Winning Olympic team, I would join my team mates for a few puffs on a cigar.
This is nothing but a tempest in a tea pot.
Yeah, I wonder how life shortening the smoking of one cigar would be, statistically that is- probably 10-12 seconds. :lol:
The only problem i see is it was in "public view" ok so next time they just celebrate next time in the room. Its not uncommon for any team to do something similar to this.
It does not matter if you are from usa,russia, mexican, etc... there a rules you are suppose to obey especially since you got other countries in your country.
Yup , Did the girls behave badly because they were drinking, did they get in trouble with the law?
Then like you say .....sour grapes !
Did anyone think theyd cross their legs and drink thier tea with the pinky sticking out?
I hear alot of whining for nothing.
This will irreperably harm canandian floozie sports in the eyes of the world. I wonder if they have considered a nude calendar to raise training money for the next Olimpdic booze up.
god you people just don't get it. it sending the wrong message to kids. it saying its ok to smoke cigs/drink
in public view... drinking in public is against the law. You are supporting it like it was nothing. yet you all bitch and complain about other people.
in public view... drinking in public is against the law. You are supporting it like it was nothing. yet you all bitch and complain about other people.
If the kids are raised to be able to think on their own and make sensible decisions, they wouldn't be so subject to "wrong messages."
If they are going to respond to a hockey player having a cigar and a beer after a once-in-a-lifetime event by thinking it's a message telling them "it's OK to smoke and drink", I'd say they have a problem in the information processing and decision making department.
And by the way, we don't all "bitch and complain about other people"...I figure if a person wants to have a cigar and a beer, it's none of my business. Unless of course, they end up puking on my shoes - then I might have a problem with it.
Well i've got a problem with this for a couple of reasons. First and formost gloating and making a spectacle of yourself after a victory is POOR SPORTSMANSHIP. Nobody cares what you do with your team mates in the locker room. But coming out and rubbing in your victory on an international stage (and in your opponent's face).. LACKS CLASS. I know the team is better than that.
Also at this point Women's Hockey is on the knife edge of being eliminated from the Olympics because of a lack of genuine international competition. The entire field is made up of only two teams. Unappealing theatrics like this do not help their cause, it might give the IOC another excuse to ditch the game.
Also at this point Women's Hockey is on the knife edge of being eliminated from the Olympics because of a lack of genuine international competition. The entire field is made up of only two teams. Unappealing theatrics like this do not help their cause, it might give the IOC another excuse to ditch the game.
Yeah, that could be true, they might be looking for anything
to get them out, to make room for another, I don't care
what they do, it's their own business, but perhaps they
could have taken it into the dressing room, and away from
'media' viewing range, I wouldn't even 'spit' within their
sight, they are vultures.
It seems quite careless to stand around on the ice, with the media,
cameras etc. there and drink, don't they realize what
these 'creeps' are waiting for?, anything to write
stories about, but the dressing room is 'their' space, to drink and have fun
after the game.
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I guess you could interpret their behaviour as gloating, but I thought it was more like celebrating a victory. I saw more lack of sportsmanship in the U.S. team's collective behaviour...they looked like a bunch of poor losers, in spite of the fact that they won a silver medal.
The opinion of the IOC's president is a different matter - I'm not sure where he's coming from with that rather weird viewpoint on women's hockey...I think he deemed it "unfair" that there is so much strength in just two teams. Well gee, I guess the answer to that would be to develop some strength in some other countries instead of whining about unfairness. I would think that if his version of "fairness" gets applied across the board to all the events, the Olympics would become smaller in a hell of a hurry. Perhaps he should look back on curling to see how that evolved.
This is such a Canadian response; we expect them to win, but then blame them for celebrating when they do.
El Barto - never said we didn't so don't even try to put words in my mouth.
countryboy
- kids follow who they like, this has nothing has parents to do with it. Parents cannot choice for htere kids who to look up to as an idle. Kids pikc them up.
Like barney for example after he was caught raping people... barney is still on tv with a different person in the suit... seriously... You need to think of kids and what you do in public before doing something stupid.once in a life-time event? its not like these women never won before in 2002... gold... wait they did.... winter Olympics also come back... will come... so don't act like this happens ever other century.
Yes we all do bitch and complain, if this was usa doing i am sure you be mouthing off right now. don't hide behind the computer desk,. Just be glad you did it to us other than Russia/Mexican etc... that is disrespectful, it does not show good sportsman ship.
oh wait i thought you said you all don't bitch and complain you just did to the usa... hum...
i wonder...
countryboy
Like barney for example after he was caught raping people... barney is still on tv with a different person in the suit... seriously... You need to think of kids and what you do in public before doing something stupid.once in a life-time event? its not like these women never won before in 2002... gold... wait they did.... winter Olympics also come back... will come... so don't act like this happens ever other century.
Yes we all do bitch and complain, if this was usa doing i am sure you be mouthing off right now. don't hide behind the computer desk,. Just be glad you did it to us other than Russia/Mexican etc... that is disrespectful, it does not show good sportsman ship.
oh wait i thought you said you all don't bitch and complain you just did to the usa... hum...
i wonder...