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The Punch-up in Piestany was a bench-clearing brawl between Canada and the Soviet Union during the final game of the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) on January 4, 1987. The incident resulted in the ejection of both teams from the tournament, and while the Soviets had already been ...
Nine-time Finnish Olympic gold medallist Paavo Nurmi was found to be a professional athlete and banned from running in the Games. The main orchestrators of the ban were the Swedish officials that were the core of the IOC bureaucracy, including IOC president Sigfrid Edström, who claimed that Nurmi had received too much money for his travel ...
Representing Canada, the Winnipeg Falcons (pictured en route to the 1920 Summer Olympics) were the first Olympic champions in ice hockey. The first Olympic ice hockey tournament took place at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. [4] At the time, organized international ice hockey was still relatively new. [5]
The British associations that governed equestrian sports, hockey, shooting and yachting completely boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Spain , Italy , Sweden , Iceland and Finland , although the latter under a heavy Russian influence at the time, were other principal nations representing western Europe at the Games. [ 23 ]
FILE - Russian Olympic Committee react after losing to Finland in the men's gold medal hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022, in Beijing.
An NBC News review found at least 20 people who appear to be working with kids even though they were barred from participating in Olympic-affiliated events following abuse allegations.
The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, was the 12th Olympic Championship. Games were held at the Makomanai Ice Arena and at the Tsukisamu Indoor Skating Rink. [1] The Soviet Union won its fourth gold medal. The United States won the silver, while Czechoslovakia won the bronze.
Canadian hockey teams used the Hockey Canada logo at the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, because the IOC does allow an exemption if the nation's National Olympic Committee approves. [12] The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) chose not to support an exemption.