Posted on 02/22/2018 12:56:42 PM PST by Cecily
A Canadian women's hockey player refused to wear her silver medal after her team lost to arch rivals USA in the Olympic finals.
Jocelyne Larocque yanked the medal off her neck during the ceremony in Pyeongchang just seconds after an official gave it to her.
The 29-year-old and her teammates lost the gold to the USA on Thursday in a dramatic shootout, ending a streak of four gold medals in the last four Olympic games.
Team USA celebrated gold medal joy and ended 20 years of Olympic misery against Canada in the most anticipated clash of the Winter Games last night.
They held their nerve and won the dramatic shootout after the game ended 2-2 in regulation time.
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You are correct.
I just watched the video, nicely linked by doug.
Canada #2 and USA #3 reminded of watching Bobby Orr skating from behind his own red line to score without an assist.
Not this one, but I saw one late in the Canadian line who needed a chromosome screen. Woah.
Must be a Canadian thing. I remember Ted Cruz’s speech when he took the silver at the GOP convention.
I think I saw on NBC the scrap value of a gold medal is only about $500, for a silver only about $300. Those are huge medals, so it’s a lot of filler. More so with the gold than silver it would seem. And the bronze are worth nada.
Gee, I thought the Olympics were supposed to be all about sportsmanship.
Boys of Winter makes me think of this
cheesy old Pittsburgh Penguins ad campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF9RmYZv7lQ
The IOC should say “That’s fine, OK”. And then take the medal away and delete her name from the record books.
This is worse than Lindsey Vonn crying when a Norwegian caused her from dropping from Silver to Bronze medal.
Loved Kilmeade’s quote, “If you don’t like silver don’t lose.” LOL!
The US Men’s Basketball team that lost to the Soviets in the 1972 final, didn’t even bother showing up to the podium, and to this day, still haven’t collected their Silver medals.
Olympic committee should stop her of the medal and institute Olympic ban....on her , her kids, and grandkids...
I remember that 1972 game and we was robbed. Last minute decision from a communist referee or something like that.
Well, they did get screwed out of the gold in 1972...
Thank you for that link.
The Russians called a time out without possession of the ball. They got the time put AND the ball!
These two women hockey teams are the two best teams in international play. It’s one team or the other that usually wins.
But it’s been Canada in the Olympics since 1998 so this win is huge for American hockey.
And these women DO NOT LIKE ONE ANOTHER! Not at all!
The men will sulk for a while and then move on but the women hold grudges for a long, long, long time.
Poor baby. Maybe she can find some consolation on Tinder. I hear it’s quite popular in the Olympic Village.
Poor baby. Maybe she can find some consolation on Tinder. I hear it’s quite popular in the Olympic Village.
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