Current Events Post #2

Should Women's Hockey Be In The Olympics?

    The topic that I'm going to talk about in these multi-paragraph is about if the women's hockey should be in the Olympics. Now I'm going to tell you what I'm going to be talking about in these multi-paragraph and give you a little information of what I'm talking about. In the first paragraph I will be talking about the women's hockey being in the Olympics and here's the summary that's going to be in that paragraph, "there is barely any competition because the people knows who's going to be in the finals". The second paragraph is going to be about the peoples opinion about the women's hockey and the summary is that "the people still want the women's hockey to be in the Olympics". In the last paragraph I will be talking about my opinion about the women's hockey being the Olympics and the summary that is going to be in that paragraph is that I will be telling what I think, also if I agree or disagree about the women's hockey being in the Olympics.

    Over the past years women's hockey hasn't been that competitive lately. The reason why women's hockey isn't competitive lately is because that people knows who is going to be in the finals. Women's hockey has been exciting to watch in the Olympics because more than 5.6 million Canadians came and watched U.S. versus Canada preliminary game. Also women's gold medal game outdo men's hockey game between Canada and Latvia when it came to average online audience numbers. The audience that the men's had that watch them played were 280,000 and the women's had 325,000. If women's hockey wasn't in the Olympics there wouldn't be a lot of audience there watching because women's hockey had been taken out of the Olympics for good. If women's hockey wasn't taken out of the Olympics, they could improve the competitiveness of women's hockey and it's a working progress, even the IOC agrees with the improvement of the competitiveness of women's hockey.

    The people reaction were shocked when they heard that women's hockey might not be in the Olympics. They were shocked when they heard that because the people say that the women's hockey game was as good as its going to get. The people disagree about the women's hockey might be out of the Olympics because Steve Paikin said "don't tell me people doesn't care about women's hockey as much as men's". The NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said that Tuesday he would be "distressed" if the event was eliminated from the Olympics. A person from Russia, Amid is concern about the competitive imbalance between Canada, the United States and the rest of the countries involved, but the International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel replied, women's hockey will "never" be remove from the Olympic schedule. Also the International Olympic Committee backed him up in a statement on Friday, "There is absolutely no plan to question the presence of women's ice hockey within the programme of the Winter Games". Another person named Damien Cox said "Yeah, pretty sure Olympic women's hockey is here to stay".

    In my opinion, women's  hockey should stay in the Olympic. Women's hockey should stay in the Olympics because a lot of people that are a fan of women's hockey would be disappointed and mad if this event was taken out of the Olympics. If the people gets mad and disappointed there wouldn't be a lot of audiences watching other event because their favourite event had been taken out. Also the people from the Olympic Committee can't afford having mad and disappointed fans because they wouldn't make any profit. I agree because I like to watch my country play against other countries and cheer them on when  they score or win the game.

If you would like to read more, down here are some articles (These articles are also my references):

http://globalnews.ca/news/1162894/is-womens-hockey-an-endangered-olympic-event/
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sochi/iihf-president-women-s-hockey-will-never-be-out-of-olympics-1.1691364
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1963484_1963490_1968364,00.html