I've been watching a lot of Olympic hockey. I guess when you date a former hockey goalie, it comes with the territory. In the last few days, I've seen hooks, high sticks and...booze on ice?
That's unfortunately not the name of a redneck Ice Capades. The above and below images capture Canada's mirthful women's hockey team after their win last night over America. Apparently, the ladies couldn't wait to get their celebratory party started and busted out the cigars and cans of beer right there on the ice.
Now, the International Olympic Committee is calling foul and promising to investigate the incident, which apparently also includes a single count of underage drinking. Team member Marie-Philip Poulin is 18 years old -- a few months shy of British Columbia's legal drinking age, 19.
“I don’t think it’s a good promotion of sport values," said Executive Director Gilbert Felli of the IOC. "If they celebrate in the changing room, that’s one thing, but not in public.”
Yowsas. Talk about turning a happy event sour. While I can't help but feel that reactions have been just a tad overblown and I daresay, prudish, the argument that the display was less than Olympic and hardly befitting of athletes charged with representing Canada to the world is a legitimate one.
Right or wrong, these pictures are hilarious. And classy. So, so very classy.
(via Review St. Louis)
4 comments:
I see nothing wrong with what the Canadian hockey team did. Nothing! My god, they won. Go nuts. What the hell? Have fun. Whoop it up. They're young and they're gold medalists. Who is offended? Who?!?!? Wow, I just saw a peregrine falcon flying outside my office window....coooool.
I want to go to there.
you know what bothers me about what happened... it wouldn't have been made into such a big deal if they were guys smoking cigars and drinking beer on the ice. what sticks out here is that these were women doing 'manly' things; then it becomes labeled inappropriate and highly criticized. how much backlash would a men's hockey team get for doing the same things? anything less than an equal amount would be unfair.
Note: the celebration on ice occurred 30 minutes after the game when photographers asked the team, who had been celebrating in the locker room, to bring the party to the ice for photos... all after the arena had been emptied of fans.
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