Don't Hate World...There Just Canadian

So apparently the sports world is in a big uproar over the celebration by the Canadian Women's Hockey Team of winning their gold medal. So for those of you have yet to hear how they celebrated, let me inform you. Beer, Cigars and Champaign. After the medal ceremony they went into their locker room and reemerged onto the ice with their medals around their necks chugging brews and smoking some stogies.

This caused an uproar among many of the main media outlets around the world. They claimed that it was a lack of sportsmanship and included inappropriate actions. I agree that going onto the ice and slamming brews isn't exactly great sportsmanship, but I disagree that their actions are being made such a big deal. First off, I feel if it were men who did this it wouldn't have caused such an uproar. Look at the World Series, the winning team always celebrates by drinking Champaign and partying. Hockey teams in the 1970's use to drink beer between periods instead of Gatorade. Nevertheless, their partying is not my problem, I feel that they had every right to slam brews and get freaky.

Why is this? Let me give you an inside look at the world of womens hockey. There are two teams who are competitive, USA and Canada, the rest of the world tries to play. To give you insight on this, Canada beat Slovakia 18-0, while the United States beat China 12-1 (how the hell does China get one goal? Who was playing goalie? My five year old cousin?). So in reality the only game that matters is the gold medal game, which since 1998 (first time womens hockey was included in the Olympics) has been between the USA and Canada.

I'm actually more upset over the US team, who has not won a gold medal since 1998. Why? The US womens team was picked over a year ago, yes they have been training for a year to play one game, the only game that matters in all of womens hockey. I can guarantee you the not a single lady on that team is happy with their Silver Medal (most probably want to burn their medal). These ladies took a whole year off from their lives only to fall short (the three college players took a a year off from school). When will the US beat Canada in women's hockey again? Who know's the staff has tried every method while the Canadians eh they just go out and play the game. At least the US has Hilary Knight on their team (http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/90892864.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921CC759DF4EBAC47D08C3D0C56CD79BDE2F3517F51DF0B595B457CA9450FB7CB85E30A760B0D811297)

So yea the Canadians have been dominating this American team for the past 12 years. Too that I say drink your Molsten's ladies you earned it.