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Stop The Madness

February 21, 2010 @ 13:42

I caught a couple of periods of the yesterday's women's Olympic hockey game between China and Switzerland and a frightening analogy came to me.

Is there any other sport in the Olympics besides hockey where a ten year old boy could beat an adult woman? I couldn't think of one.

Skiing, snowboarding, figure skating, speed skating... you name it, and it would take an exceptional and exceedingly unique situation for a ten year old boy to beat an adult woman.

But yesterday's hockey game between the Chinese and Swiss left no doubt in my mind. Virtually any team of Triple A ten year old boys could have beaten either women's team on the ice in Vancouver yesterday, and they aren't necessarily the two worst teams in the tournament.

It was a plodding, excruciating and offensive display of the game with several players continuosly falling down for no other reason than they can't skate very well with hockey equipment on.

This madness has to stop. Hopefully after the Olympics are complete the IOC will do the right thing and remove women's hockey from the program. It was a noble experiment, and it will be devastating for Canada and the United States, but really, enough is enough.

It would have been different if some of the other countries, especially Russia, had taken the sport more seriously in the last 18 years since it was adopted as an Olympic sport, but they haven't and it's turned into a two team tournament that borders on useless if not silly.

After three games, Canada has scored 41 goals and has allowed only three. The United States has scored 31 and allowed only one.

Ridiculous.

I take nothing away from the accomplishments of Teams Canada and the USA because you can only play who's put on the ice against you, but this is going nowhere and it's time to face reality.

Believe me, when the inevitable Canada / USA gold medal game happens next Saturday, I'll be in front of my 52 incher and cheering on the good gals like every other Canadian in the country. But that doesn't make the existence of the game valid.

My heart says continue, but my brain says end it. Women's hockey is clearly a failed experiment at the Winter Olympics.

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