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Olympics-Ice hockey-Canada beat Russians in chaotic delayed game wearing masks
A women’s ice hockey preliminary round game between Canada and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) at the Beijing Winter Games was delayed by an hour on Monday, before players returned to the ice wearing masks, due to “safety and security concerns”. Canada would go on to register a routine 6-1 win but the contest was far from uneventful as it got off to a chaotic and confusing start.
Olympics-Nordic combined-Women still frozen out in Olympic anomaly
Which is the only Winter Olympics discipline where women do not compete at the Games? It might be a good quiz question, but for female Nordic combined athletes, their absence is anything but a fun fact and remains a source of burning resentment. The discipline that brings together ski jumping and cross-country skiing has been ever-present at the Winter Olympics since they began in 1924 and the…
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