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Old 02-04-2022, 09:30 AM   #26
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China pays foreign hockey players quite well. Six figures to play. In some cases it's a lot more they'd make here. Especially female players. So it's tempting to go overseas and make a comfortable wage playing hockey full time, whereas in Canada it's not possible for many talented players.
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My friend is on the Chinese hockey team.

He was laughing because for some of the players on the team, they changed the spelling so it's in pinyin pronunciation and putting that on the jerseys.

e.g. Jeremy Smith is now Jieruimi Shimisi

My friend is a white-washed halfer, so he doesn't have a Chinese name. When he went to China for the first time, they apparently asked him for one. He said he didn't have one so they made one for him. We were joking he should've gave them another friend's Chinese name because as it turns out that would've been on the jerseys instead.
Do you know what their expectations are in the tournament? Are they just hoping to finish higher than previous years?
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Saw highlights of Womens' Hockey. What a Shocker! JPN beats SWE . Didn't see that coming.
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Do you know what their expectations are in the tournament? Are they just hoping to finish higher than previous years?
I can't speak for the team, but I would say that they're pretty aware that they're the weakest team in the tournament and are facing extremely talented teams in the group stages.
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I can't speak for the team, but I would say that they're pretty aware that they're the weakest team in the tournament and are facing extremely talented teams in the group stages.
I guess the goal might be to not be completely embarrassed with a 12 Goals Allowed average or something like that
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the women's hockey team put up 11 against finland and 12 against the swiss the other night.

I guess for China, it's to enjoy the experience. some of those guys would never be able to represent Canada, so this is definitely special.

There are some former NHL draft picks and players on KunLun, so its not all bad.
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I remember just prior to NHL pulling out they had to have Team China play a KHL team to measure how bad they were because if they couldn't keep from getting embarrassed they may have had to not allow them to play or something.
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I remember just prior to NHL pulling out they had to have Team China play a KHL team to measure how bad they were because if they couldn't keep from getting embarrassed they may have had to not allow them to play or something.
China is going to get embarrassed one way or another. They still have the women's team. That's why I think China should just allow the mens national team to play. At least they represent the country and no one can fault them if they lose 20-0. Everyone knows hockey is still developing in China.
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After vowing not to watch I was sucked into womens slope style last night

Uhg pains me to watch especially when some of the women coming down are either heartbroken or super pumped and the second they take off their board you hear the gross usher outside “ok come for health check!! Mask! Mask!” :/
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I haven't watched anything yet, not sure if I will. Summer games were fun though, following both Canada and HK, which won a huge record number of medals
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Yah, I'm kind of not interested or uninvested in this ... haven't watched anything either.

This just reeks of the shitty Olympics brand ... less and less countries even wanting to put on these debt generating games so they give it to China again after the 2008 Summer games. IOC cronies.

Russian proven/documented state sponsored doping athletes ... oh, so we'll punish them by banning them for 4 years but they can send athletes, we'll just call them Russian Olympic Committee ROC ... and won't play the Russian anthem if they win the gold medal ... WTF ??!!

While the whole world calls China out for the way they handle HK, genocide of Uighurs, colonialism of Africa, and their eff you imprisonment of the 2 Michaels.

While all the amateur athletes put on a show, drama, and great stories who don't get paid diddly.

Where the hell is the integrity of anyone at any level?

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Is it appropriate to discuss the indigenous-led bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics here in this thread?

An issue that has come up in a couple of news reports regarding the current Beijing Winter Olympics is availability of snow to support the outdoor events. The TL;DR version of this story is -- Beijing and the nearby vicinity is actually a very poor location to support outdoor winter sports because it doesn't really have enough snow. Man-made snow is used extensively as a result, and that in turn results in a a gob ton of issues, including but not limited to athletes complaining about the quality of the man-made snow, as well as the ethical issues on competition for drinking water and how (non-green) energy intensive it is to create that man-made snow.

Thinking back to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, we ran into a similar issue as well because the weather didn't cooperate during the time when the Olympics was held. Given the myriad of climate-related issues that we ran into last year, and the known projection that the overall global temperatures are going to rise, it just adds to another viability problem for us to host the Winter Olympics again.
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Have the Winter Olympics in Texas in 2030
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Why not, there’s a ice hockey team in Las Vegas…
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Man-made snow is used extensively as a result, and that in turn results in a a gob ton of issues, including but not limited to athletes complaining about the quality of the man-made snow, as well as the ethical issues on competition for drinking water and how (non-green) energy intensive it is to create that man-made snow.
snowmaking is probably not even a drop compared to china's manufacturing footprint

never mind the impact of flying all the athletes/teams in..
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I personally just never was all that invested in the Olympics.
Too many sports I generally don't care about to begin with.
Now that NHL players aren't even involved in hockey, I don't even follow Olympic hockey anymore.
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Watching the Canadian women's hockey game and wtf they are wearing masks while playing
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snowmaking is probably not even a drop compared to china's manufacturing footprint

never mind the impact of flying all the athletes/teams in..
IMO, the energy requirement bit from artificial snow making is a lesser problem compared to the water needs for artificial snow making. Esp in Beijing, fresh water shortages and droughts are already a recurring thing.

Coming back to the issue of our 2030 Olympic bid, we certainly get a lot of precipitation in the winter months, so the water usage needs is less of an issue. But the energy need is still there, and it just adds to another reason of why hosting the Games might not be such a good idea.
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Watching the Canadian women's hockey game and wtf they are wearing masks while playing
Russian team didn’t get their covid results before the game started, Canada refused to play, then said they’d play if both teams wore masks which they did…

Russia stopped wearing them at some point tho…

I don’t understand why it was on the Canadian team to police this, where’s the IOC in all this? Total BS.
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