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Originally Posted by MattyC
While what you say about the hockey is true, a lot of European countries don't see it as intensely as we do. You're right that Canada would probably cause more of blip than I said. I didn't really think about the implications of no Canadian hockey, but I don't think the Europeans would take it as harshly as we think. We all know that Canada has the best group, but the US, Swedish, Finnish, Slovakian, Czech, and even Swiss teams are not exactly chopped liver and the hockey would still be great.
Also Euros take a lot more interest in the other sports than we as Canadians tend to do I think. We love the hockey, everything else is just there. Euros go crazy for the skiing and the ski jumping and the other, less sexy sports.
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Fair enough, but you still have to consider that hockey aside, we still won the most gold medals, and were third in total medal count last Olympics. Canada is a huge player at the winter Olympics. If we boycotted, it would certainly be a huge loss and something the whole world would take notice of. It would be a huge deal, and I think (not necessarily you) people in this thread are really underestimating that fact.