Team USA delivers a nice little 5 to 3 spanking to team Canada right before the Medal rounds begin ,
Neither team out for the count , so there still could be a rematch .
ESPN
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Happy anniversary, U.S. Olympic hockey team.
The goaltending couldn't haven't been better in the U.S. defeat of much-hyped Canada. The timing couldn't be more perfect, either.
Now, the latest hockey team to capture the American public imagination's needs only to write a happy ending to this success story in the making, just like the 1960 and 1980 teams did.
Winning the game they supposedly couldn't against a virtual NHL all-star team that Canadians believed was ordained for gold, the Americans' unexpected 5-3 victory Sunday advanced them to Wednesday's quarterfinals as the top-seeded team.
This game wasn't for a medal. Canada wasn't eliminated; the Americans are assured of nothing but a bye before they play the Switzerland-Belarus winner. Even so, this was a magical moment for U.S. hockey that, at least in the Olympics, hasn't been matched since the Miracle on Ice in 1980.
"You just can't beat it. It was fun," Paul Stastny said. "It was a once-in-a-lifetime atmosphere."
Fittingly, Monday is the 30th anniversary of the United States' monumental upset against the Soviet Union's supposedly unbeatable all-world team in Lake Placid.
Monday, February 22, 2010
US hockey upsets Canada
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Go USA !
A little rivalry tonight at the Vancouver olympics !
May the U.S hockey team return the favor of winning against team Canada on their home Ice , EH!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Arrests jolt Beijing families during Games
Dissident, imagine if in America we were labeled like this ,And then arrested every time a major event took place , or were just arrested for applying for a permit?
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Dong Jiqin is watching a provincial television channel instead of the Beijing Olympics this summer because the arrest of his dissident wife has taken the gloss of the celebrations.
"I cannot watch the Games," Dong said from his cluttered cement-floor living room-dining room combo in the heart of the capital. "I'm afraid my wife isn't safe. We think the Olympics should be held, but I am just not in the mood to watch it."
The government has defended the stepping up of security, with more than 100,000 police and troops on patrol in Beijing, citing terror threats to the Games which end on Sunday.
The New York-based Human Rights in China says 24 protesters, Communist Party critics and their family members were detained or closely guarded before the Olympics opened on August 8. Countless others were captured in the months prior to silence critics as thousands of foreign reporters descended on the city.
Dong's wife, Ni Yulan, was jailed in April, when authorities began clearing out activists and others they felt may launch embarrassing protests during the Games in front of a global audience.
In another case, petitioners Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, were sentenced to one year of "re-education through labor" after repeatedly applying to hold demonstrations in the areas Beijing has set aside for protests during the Games, Human Rights in China said on Wednesday, citing Wu's son.
The two women, who had planned to demonstrate against their forced eviction from their homes in 2001, may serve their term outside the labor camp but their movements are restricted. They can no longer apply to demonstrate, the organization said.
None of the dozens of applications to protest in the protest zones has been granted.
Ni was detained for a year in 2002 over filming a controversial home demolition project in her neighborhood. She also speaks regularly to reporters about issues in China and helps anti-government petitioners get an audience.
She was not planning to protest during the Games, Dong said.
Ni, 48 and disabled from a fight with authorities in 2002, is being held now for "hampering government work", police records say.
Dong says a group of plain-clothed officers illegally entered their house on April 15, cut power and phone lines and destroyed parts of the house.
"They wanted to see us stuck in jail so the Olympics would look better," said Dong.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
China Yet to Approve Any Protests
Remeber how China promised to set up areas for protesters and how the IOC triped over themselves to praise them? Well, China has yet to approve a single protest during the olympics! It seems the Chinese have been arresting people who had applied to protest. BBC
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China has received a total of 77 applications to stage protests during the Olympic Games period - but none has been approved.
Beijing's public security bureau said 74 applications were "withdrawn", two were "suspended" and one was "vetoed".
China was praised by the International Olympic Committee when it said protest areas would be set up for the Olympics.A demonstration can be turned down if it could harm national sovereignty or unity, or even if the police suspect it will "undermine public order".
Protesters were supposed to be able to demonstrate in Shijie, Zizhuyuan and Ritan parks during the Olympics.
But no areas appear to have been set up for protesters inside the parks, which are being heavily policed during the Olympics.
Some would-be protesters even appear to have been arrested after making applications to stage demonstrations.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
China Detains 4 Protesters
Please tell me how China won the bid for the olympics. The Guardian
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Four protesters including two Britons have been detained in the Chinese
capital after hanging Free Tibet banners close to the main Bird's Nest stadium.
The demonstration underlined the clash between competing views of the Olympics in Beijing, as thousands of euphoric spectators cheered the arrival of the torch in Tiananmen Square while foreign activists launched a series of small protests around the city.
Given the massive security operation in the capital and the carefully organised audience, no one expected demonstrations in or around the square during the relay.US and British campaigners scored a publicity coup by climbing electricity poles at dawn and unfurling outlawed Tibetan flags and banners with Free Tibet slogans in Chinese and English. Their protest took place just outside the Bird's Nest, where the opening ceremony will take place on Friday.
"We've done this action today to highlight the Chinese government's use of the Beijing Olympics as a propaganda tool to whitewash their human rights mobile phone conversation posted on the internet," said Iain Thom, one of the protesters, in a recorded mobile phone conversation posted on the internet.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
China bans dog meat before Olympic Games!
Well I guess if I was hungry I would try it , but I would rather it not be my pet!
The China NEWS
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BEIJING: Image conscious China has banned the serving of dog meat in designated restaurants that will cater to athletes, spectators and tourists during the Olympic Games. But it has spared restaurants from serving other kinds of meat like donkey meat that are equally popular among a section of people in Beijing.
DONKEY?
This has been done to avoid hurting the sensibilities of some of the visitors as well as ensure that animal rights activists do not get an opportunity to hold demonstrations, sources said.
The order banning dog meat was sent by the Beijing Food Safety Office to hotels and restaurants approved for the Olympic guests. The order also said that if dog meat is used in traditional medicated diets, which is often the case, it must be clearly labelled.
Restaurants in Beijing that sell food from Yunnan and Guizhou provinces often serve dog meat. It is popular among some sections of Chinese but its use is much less widespread as compared to the two Koreas.
This is not the first time that dog meat dishes are being banned during Olympics. It was done during the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, where dog meat is a regular diet of the people.
The official directive said Beijing restaurants should "respect the dining customs of different countries" by stopping the sale of dog meat dishes.
Damn ,I love my American food!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
China Foils Terrorists Planning Attacks on Olympics
Who really knows if these are really terrorists? Especially since it's coming from the commies. But, then again China does have a problem with a certain religious group in the western Xinjiang region. Reuters
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BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday that it had foiled five "terrorism groups" plotting attacks targeting the Beijing Olympics, as the government cracks down on perceived threats to the Games which open in less than a month.
In the first six months of the year, police detained 82 people in the restive far western Xinjiang region who had plotted to sabotage the Olympics, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, citing Chen Zhuangwei, police chief of regional capital Urumqi.
"Police in the regional capital also detained 66 gang members of the 'three evil forces' of terrorism, separatism and extremism, and destroyed 41 training bases of 'holy war' from January to June," Xinhua quoted Chen as saying.he government says it has foiled a string of terrorist plots this year hatched from Xinjiang, a mainly Muslim region where Beijing accuses militant Uighurs of working with al Qaeda to bring about an independent state called East Turkestan.
Xinhua on Wednesday said that Chinese police had shot and killed five people they said were seeking "holy war" against the country's dominant Han Chinese.
In April, public security officials said authorities had foiled plots to kidnap athletes and carry out suicide attacks during August's Games. China earlier said had foiled a plan by Uighur separatists to bring down a Beijing-bound plane.
Many Uighurs resent the migration of Han Chinese to the region and government controls on their religion and culture.
But Uighur advocacy groups deny separatists are plotting attacks in Xinjiang and accuse China of embarking on a pre-Olympic security crackdown targeting activists seeking greater freedom for the region.
