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Originally Posted by UKflames
It is statements like this that make some NA hockey fans sound like spoilt brats  |
It is NOT the hockey, necessarily, I have come to despise the whole over bloated a corrupt institution. I have no use for flag waving jingoism...and these athletes, IMO, are in it for cash, and individual glory...NOT for the honor of representing their countries. The rampant use of PEDs and judged event score trading is proof of that... And the whole "cold war" proxy war of superiority that had developed through the 50's and 60's into the 90s, unnecessarily reduced what once was pure amateur event into the tainted mess that it is today.