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Сочи 2014 (Winter Olympics Thread)
jwhouk:
When the same team wins the gold every single Olympics, we're pretty much proving that it's Canada, the USA, and that's pretty much it when it comes to women's hockey.
This game was the first game since their preliminary battle that was actually competitive for both teams. You could just have the entire tournament be these two teams, and have the rest of the teams just play a round robin to figure out who takes Bronze.
cesium133:
The stakes have just been raised.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 20 Feb 2014, 15:09 ---Crap.
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Squared.
ev4n:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 20 Feb 2014, 15:11 ---
--- Quote from: ev4n on 20 Feb 2014, 12:51 ---I think the nation stopped there for an hour or two.
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I know that's exaggeration and I know it's the Olympic championship but...is it really that big a deal to Canada as a country? I mean sports are fun to watch but are they really that important to people? I've never really understood this.
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Super Bowl viewership, in the US: 111.5 million of 317.5 million (35.1%)
Gold medal hockey game, men, 2010, in Canada: 16.6 million of 33.5 million (49.6%)
Yes, it really is that big a deal.
Barmymoo:
It's not just a spectator sport either - kids in Canada play hockey (or at the very least ice skate) in the way that kids in the UK play football and in the USA play, uh, whatever it is that kids play there (baseball? American football? I'm not sure which is bigger). I have a lot of Canadian friends on Twitter and this game is all they have been talking about for days, and judging by their tweets it's all anyone's been talking about anywhere.
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