Current Events Blog Post #2-Should Womens Hockey Be in the Olympics?

In 2014, people thought that the winter Olympic comity was deciding whether they should put Women's winter Olympic hockey in the 2014 Sochi winter Olympic games. People thought that they were discussing about this because in the past winter Olympics, there was no competition in women's hockey. In all of the past 5 to 10 winter Olympics,  in the final gold medal game it was usually Canada vs. the usa. Since there is no commpetison, people are not that interested in watching the women's hockey because they know who is going to be in the finals. People thought that the winter Olympic comity thinks that they should let other countries get better and play women's hockey in the 2024 Olympics instead of the 2016 Olympics or the 2020 winter Olympics. Could this be the end of women's hockey at the winter Olympics?

Many citizens of Canada, usa and other countries that excel in women's hockey are worried that women's hockey will be taken out of the Olympics because of the level of competition. Rene Fasel (the president of women's hockey) said "Fortunately, this is just a rumour and as of right now, women's Olympic hockey will remain in the winter Olympics, and will never be taken out."The winter Olympic comity then said that "There is absolutely no plan to question the presence of women’s ice hockey within the programme of the winter Games.”Even after these people said that women's Olympic hockey will remain in the winter Olympics, people are still worried that women's hockey will be taken out. The winter Olympic comity doesn't want Canada to think that there favourite winter sport will be taken out of the winter Olympic games.

Some people are still worried about women's hockey being taken out of the winter Olympics because of the same thing that happened in the 2008 summer Olympics in being. In the Olympics before the 2008 summer Olympics usa won gold in women's softball every single summer Olympics. People started to wonder if  women's softball would be taken out of the summer Olympics because there was no competition. The summer Olympic comity replied "Women's softball will stay in the Olympics and will not leave the olympics.''The comity lied and they ended up taking softball out of the next Olympics ad was not put back in. People are now afraid that the same thing is going to happen with women's hockey but in the winter Olympics. Toronto star writer Damien Cox says that they shouldn't take out women's hockey of the winter Olympics because lots of other countries excel in other sports. Some include Germany in luge, usa in snowboarding, and the Netherlands in speed skating. People agreed with Damien and they said that if women's hockey is going to be taken out o the Olympics than those other sports should be too.

There is many reasons about why women's hockey should stay in the Olympics and nearly no reasons about why women's hockey shouldn't be in the Olympics. The Canadian winter Olympic comity states "Canada excels in hockey because of the money we spend in training our players. If other countries are disappointed in there women's hockey teams in how they are doing in the Olympics, then they should spend more money in training there athletes like they do in other sports."Also more people watched the women's hockey preliminary game with Canada and the usa in 2014 winter Olympics than people watched the grey cup football final in November 2014. Also more people watched the women's gold medal final in hockey than they did in the means hockey Canada vs. Latvia in the quarter final game. Canada also excels in women's hockey because of the number of girls and women playing hockey in Canada. Near 80,000 women play hockey in Canada rather than in Europe when close to only 2000 women play hockey. These are just some of the many reasons why Canada excels in omens hockey.

In my opinion, women's hockey should and will stay in the Olympics. People will be disappointed and angry if women's hockey is taken out of the winter Olympics. The winter Olympic comity can't afford any angry people. I agree with Damien Cox when he said that just because a country excels in a certain sport doesn't mean that it should be taken out of the Olympics. I also agree that if other countries start spending more money and encouraging more women to play hockey that the countries will start getting better at hockey. Other countries are already getting better at women's hockey and by taking out the exciting sport now, things will just get worse. If you would like to read more about this topic, check out the following links:

Womens Hockey globe mail

global-womens hockey?

Content time-is womens hockey out of the olympics?

Ctv news-iihf presedent womens hockey at the Olympics

the star.com-Womens hockey endangered?