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Originally Posted by ricosuave

http://winterolympics.si.com/2010/02...ef=sihp&hpt=T2

I loved his comments at the end.

Late-night update: In the latest moronic piece of news to come out of the IOC, executive director Gilbert Felli says they will investigate the celebration. “It is not what we want to see,” he told the Associated Press. “I don’t think it’s a good promotion of sport values. If they celebrate in the changing room, that’s one thing, but not in public. We will investigate what happened.” And the reason Felli had to react to it? Because an equally lame reporter from the AP called to inform him about it and ask for a comment. Is it possible to just see something like this, laugh at it, and be happy for these girls? At least Steve Keough, the Canadian Olympic Committee spokesman whom the AP called, had a reasonable answer: “In terms of the actual celebration,” he said, “it’s not exactly something uncommon in Canada.”
A word for the IOC, and reporters casting this as a negative incident: Please, just let Team Canada have their fun. What they did was refreshingly authentic. Don’t punish them for it.

My bolding, not his.

Originally Posted by GirlySports

if the americans had done this, there would have been a national outcry.

I believe it would have been the exact same people kvetching about The Canadian teaming doing it and the exact same people saying "what's the big deal".