DisgruntledGoat*
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- Dec 26, 2010
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Canada didn't send its team to the Olympics for a long time and now argues that all those gold medals that Soviet Union won were illegitimate because Canadians weren't present....ended up "blinking first"
An incredible amount of wrong for just one sentence.
First, Canada didn't 'blink' because Canada never had a choice about what players it could send to the Olympics... Professional players were not allowed, and Canada's best were playing professional hockey. So were Russia's but the ridiculous sham of 'amateur' hockey in Soviet-era allowed them to circumvent the rules.
And no says those Gold medals don't count... Just that when Russia fans want to trot them out as evidence of hockey dominance, it gets pointed out (quite rightly) that they were never best-on-best tournaments.