It Is Better To Lose?

The Canadian team won a couple of games by over ten goals and people are saying that they should leave women’s ice hockey out of the Olympics. If that is an acceptable argument then they should simply shut down the whole Winter Olympics. How many sports in the winter games are not dominated by a handful of countries? Indeed the entire Winter Olympics is dominated by a handful of countries. Of two Canadian games, one is against a inexperienced Italian team with two fifteen year olds on defence and who is to say in ten years they will not be dominant blue liners? The other game is against a Russian team that simply gave up after a few goals so the final score is exaggerated. The U.S. barely got by Finland yesterday, and most think the U.S. team is at least as good if not better than the Canadians. No one argued that they should take basketball out of the Summer Olympics when for decades U.S. teams made up of college kids were beating everyone by forty points. Now even when the U.S. sends their very best they can no longer guarantee victory. It is bizarre when the countries that lost by 12 and 16 goals are not complaining and the winner complains. There are some strange people in this country.