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The ennobling influence of winter sports on people quickly disappeared after the Olympic Games. More specifically, a few minutes after the USA beat Canada in the men’s ice hockey final.
Then Donald Trump called directly into the gold medalists’ locker room. His home place, as you know – Conversation in the locker room.
The conversation took place documented dilettante FBI Director Kash Patel’s cell phone, which the president used to congratulate the team and invite them to the evening’s State of the Union address. “I can send a military plane or something,” he suggested, and the answer was a resounding “yes.”
The president added that he would probably have to invite the gold-winning women’s team too, otherwise there would be impeachment, hey-hey.
The answer: Another loud laugh from Trump’s hockey lackeys.
Ice hockey is a perpetual arena of violence and grotesque bravery, where blood is shed and bones and skulls are crushed
Plus ça changeas they might say in some parts of Canada. Ice hockey is a perpetual arena of violence and grotesque bravery, where blood is shed and bones and skulls are crushed. The victorious shooter, Jack Hughes, had had his front teeth knocked out with a high bat just a few minutes earlier. One remembers the legendary Gordie Howe, who broke jaws and knocked out opponents’ teeth with the same dogged determination in the 1960s, the Philadelphia Flyers bullies who climbed into the stands on a famous night in Vancouver and began fighting with the crowd, Bobby Clarke, who deliberately hit the foot of Soviet star Valery Kharlamov. People remember violent physical injuries and outright attacks.
The US women’s team However, the answer was different. They declined the president’s invitation citing “previously agreed upon academic and professional commitments.”
Style and class.
As well as a far more realistic picture of gender roles in ice hockey than in “Heated Rivalry”.
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