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Title: IOC looks into celebrations by women's hockey team
Category: Sports
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-02-25 22:50:34
Canadian

[saturn_656]

$1:

The players drank cans of beer and bottles of champagne, and smoked cigars with their gold medals draped around their necks.

Yeah, they are Canadian alright.

[gonavy47]

If there were no fans in the building, what's the big deal? Some reporter from Associated Press got a grudge?

[Alta_redneck]

Sorry ladies, I have to deduct points for lack of originality. Not sure if someone will make the journey to the gold medal into a documentary, but this ending has already been used.

Other than that I have no problem with it.

[Regina]

Were people in the stands allowed to drink?
Who cares unless they weren't old enough.

[raydan]

After months/years of training, tournaments and preparation, with the pressure of playing on home soil and the expectation everybody had of them winning gold, can you imagine how they all felt when the game ended. Natural that they had to blow off some steam. They just showed a small lack in judgment, but who hasn't, especially at that age.
Nobody got hurt, the only "bad" thing is that Marie-Philip Poulin is an underage drinker in BC.

The Russian press is having fun with this, but in a good way.
They write that if the girls had been drinking coke and eating Big-Macs, this would have made good press.

[Brenda]

They had their clothes on, right? No pics wearing only gold medals?
Then get the f*ck over yourselves and let them celebrate

If they had taken off the medals, it would have been no problem for the IOC, I take it? Geesh...

[QBC]

The IOC can pound sand. Would they have said anything if the girls had been doing all this at a night club? No. So what, people should be allowed to be joyous after their competitions, especially in their own country. Screw the IOC.

[canuckns]

Seriously? This is an issue? Looks like the IOC and a certain AP reporter are getting bored.

[GreenTiger]

While it is true that the team was getting a bit over animated so what. Nobody got hurt. The pressure on the ladies was enormous so I don't see what the big deal is.

The IOC has enough embarrassing momements of its own to deal with before its pontificates on something like this.

[Regina]

blvd88 blvd88:

Regina Regina:

Were people in the stands allowed to drink?
Who cares unless they weren't old enough.

"Among those drinking were Marie-Philip Poulin of Quebec City, the youngest player on Team Canada and its fourth-line centre, who scored twice in the first period. The 18-year-old Poulin turns 19 next month, but right now she would be under the legal drinking age in B.C."

......and she's from Quebec where it is legal for an 18 year old to drink. I believe it was also legal for her to drink there, when she was 16 under parental care.

[ShepherdsDog]

I'm sure that the IOC has enough collective dirt of their own to make the Sahara green gain, so perhaps they should keep their gobs shut. If anything is made of this, tar and feather the bastards and run them out of town on a rail.

[Brenda]

Regina Regina:

blvd88 blvd88:

Regina Regina:

Were people in the stands allowed to drink?
Who cares unless they weren't old enough.

"Among those drinking were Marie-Philip Poulin of Quebec City, the youngest player on Team Canada and its fourth-line centre, who scored twice in the first period. The 18-year-old Poulin turns 19 next month, but right now she would be under the legal drinking age in B.C."

......and she's from Quebec where it is legal for an 18 year old to drink. I believe it was also legal for her to drink there, when she was 16 under parental care.

Unfortunately, that is not important. Where I am from, there is no restriction. Alcohol just cannot be sold to kids under 16, but they are allowed to drink it. Does that mean Dutchies can do that in Canada too?

That's what you get with different laws and rules in different provinces...

[ShepherdsDog]

If you are in a restaurant with your parents or a legal guardian, they can order you an alcoholic beverage with your meal. I think they usually restrict it to beer or wine for those who are underage. After 15 I was never IDd again.

[Brenda]

I got ID-d not too long ago...