Is women’s hockey an endangered Olympic Event? ; A question many people are asking themselves. The NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said he would be absolutely horrified if women’s hockey was to leave the Olympics. The international ice hockey federation president also replied with a strong “never” will it be removed from the Olympics. But why women’s Hockey? This same situation happened to softball. Team USA won the gold medal three years running. What if all of the sports were like that, If the same person won a gold medal every single year. Would all of those sports be taken out to?
People are worried about Canada and The United States of America always in the finals for women’s hockey. They believe Canada has a stronger team along with a good development program and coaching. Is Canada to strong? The women’s ice hockey team for Canada is a very talented team. They are a gold medal team and USA is a silver medal team. Some people do not approve of women’s hockey being in the Olympics just because team Canada and USA are always in the finals. Although Canada and USA continue to approve other countries are trying their best to catch up to them, for the next winter Olympics.
This is the fifth winter Olympics with women’s ice hockey. Canada has won four gold medals and USA has won one. They are asking for my time, it started with Canada and USA, Finland and Sweden. Now they have Russia coming in, Switzerland coming in, and Japan is growing. Over time, at least from 2010 to 2014 the competitive balanced has improved a bit but so has Canada and USA. The improvement has changed a little bit because of the tournament format. The top two countries in the world in women’s ice hockey did not face the seventh and eighth seeds in Sochi, Russia.
Hockey is a very important sport to Canada and the USA because they have devoted so much time to it. It would be an absolute tragic if they were to take that sport out of the winter Olympics. It seems to be important in men’s so why can’t it be just as important in women’s. If you were in Canada’s shoes you would definitely not want women’s ice hockey to leave such an important event. If that was your country getting gold every Olympics you would want that sport to stay and wait for the other countries to catch up.
http://guardianlv.com/2014/02/hockey-is-womens-hockey-destined-to-be-cut-from-the-olympics/
Good job on your post, I really enjoyed reading it. Try having a better concluding sentence and maybe add some photos to improve the visualization. Other than that you had great details and I'll be looking forwards in reading your next post!
ReplyDeleteGreat post Paige. I liked how you explained different arguments for this topic. Next time maybe you could put some more links to articles on womens hockey at the olympics. I also liked how you used proper grammer and how you wrote alot about this topic. Kepp up the good work
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