I don't know if it has been brought up yet but in a timed event as opposed to a head to head event it doesn't look as bad when one country dominates. A bobsledder can lose by 4 seconds and flip their sled but it doesn't look like the faster sled is "running up the score"
It the optics of women's hockey that are terrible. Canada and the US should be instructing their teams to do whatever is possible while still competing to improve the optics of Women's hockey. This would mean not celebrating at all on goals after going up 5 points. And maybe even shutting it down after going up 5 nothing so that all the games are less then double digit losses. The celebration, while I don't have any issues with it, looks bad when played to the world media. Again its bad optics for a sport under the microscope.
It seems that everytime someone questions the validity of Women's hockey in the Olympics our team becomes defiant and dominates more and celebrates more. If I am part of hockey canada I would be working with the US to attempt to improve the optics of women's hockey. Because if this continues I would suspect after another two olympics it will be gone.
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