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Originally Posted by littlereddevil
I wasn't implying that it was just a problem with Canadian hockey teams. I left the possibility open to other World Junior / national teams from other countries having the same sort of culture.
It's just that here in Canada, World Juniors are a really big deal (and maybe more so than in other countries). They're like our version of the Olympics. So the implications of a fallout involving Hockey Canada would be huge. It'd be arguably at the same scale as the IOC banning the Russian Olympic team from participating in the Olympics for state-sponsored doping. It's a widespread systemic issue that has been allowed to go on for far too long.
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I don't recall ever hearing stories or rumors about gang bangs (let alone gang rapes) around European sports teams. Or to be specific, not stories of team mates banging girls as a team in general.
(Obviously this is purely anecdotal.)
There's been gang rape stories involving athletes, and plenty of stories about both consensual sex and sexual violence, but either these rumors stay closer to teams, or the culture is genuinely different, in that team athletes don't seem to act as groups around women nearly as much as they seem to do in NA. Which I would imagine helps cut down on some of the most toxic stuff.
The culture around youth athletes seems very different to me in general if you compare Europe to North America. It just seems to be considered much less sexy here.
Here in Finland, I've gone to school with some pretty good athletes, and I don't recall them being overly popular with girls or that being a big thing to adults around them. Even in our fictional stories, The Hot Guy is rarely an athlete, or at least them being an athlete isn't a big focus.
