Who Will Win Hockey Gold?

Who Will Win Hockey Gold?
You Don’t Have To Believe In Karma to see what results from being ungracious and disrespectful. Look at the Olympics to see what happens when people, in public, are confident, respectful, determined and hopeful. Then look at the results when they are disrespectful to their opponents.

Examples abound in both cases. In mens alpine skiing, Bode Miller and Axel Svindal, Joannie Rochette and Queen Yu-an two different stories with wonderful out comes in figure skating, Cindy Klassen, Shani Davis and many more in speed skating. Alex Bilodeau and Dale Begg-Smith in Moguls, may be the most vivid example of the jin & jang of all, in these Olympics, they both had great results yet their view, joy and acceptance of the results were totally different. Men’s figure skating had interesting drama as well. You get to make your own world, so I hope you like the one your in. Those are the events I saw the most of, I did see some boardercross, ski cross and Shaun White in the halfpipe, they all were wonderful to watch.

The reason I started to think about this was because of the way the fans were reacting at the hockey games and curling events. I started to wonder if the fans activities may have an effect on the out come, such as good behavior may bring out a better results and dis-respectfulness a negative outcome. At the curling rink the Canadian fans have been cheering when the other team misses a shot and when the opponent calls a time out for a team meeting, which seems quite disrespectful. Did it have any impact on the results for the gold medal game, Cheryl Bernard had to chances to win the game in the tenth and eleventh ends, shoulda, coulda, woulda, didn’t, what would have happened if the fans had been more respectful? What do the psychologists think? We will see what happens in the men’s gold medal game with the Martin rink. The same thing almost happened last night in the hockey game between Canada and Slovakia. The Slovaks have quietly done their business, they beat the Russians, then the Swedes, play good team hockey and get to the semi finals. Canada has had to fight to get this far but what have the fans done. Are they thankful and respectful, do they appreciate the other team? They start to chant in the 3rd period of the German game we want Russia, they get Russia and when the game gets out of reach they start taunting Ovechkin, then in the semi final they start chanting we want the USA, they almost didn’t get what they wanted. The Slovaks put on the pressure, scored two goals and had great chances to tie the game, Canada was lucky. If I was a Canadian curler or hockey player I would be embarrassed by the behavior of the fans.

I don’t know if karma is real of not, but as human and Canadian I like to think is. What I find hard to swallow is the idea that a mob of louts can change the deserving out comes that the athletes have toiled for years to achieve. I thank all the participants for sharing their dreams with all of us. My wish is that you could all do a personal best at the Olympics. For everyone, cheer, enjoy, celebrate, respect your opponent and each other. Go get them.

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