Group Canada isn’t used to dropping in ladies’s Olympic hockey. And not less than considered one of its gamers isn’t occupied with accepting comfort prizes.
The U.S. ladies’s hockey staff scored a historic victory Thursday in South Korea, outlasting Canada in an exhilarating shootout to seize its first gold medal in 20 years.
As is customized, either side had been offered with medals after the sport — American gamers with gold and Canadian gamers with silver. However Canada defensewoman Jocelyne Larocque, understandably upset following the loss, didn’t really feel like carrying a silver medal.
So, she took it off.
That’s Larocque on the second to left, and she or he seemed to be the one Canadian not carrying her silver medal.
Tv cameras caught her eradicating the medal instantly after it was positioned round her neck.
Some would view Larocque’s transfer as poor sportsmanship, but it surely’s extra only a spontaneous expression of frustration: The medal ceremony occurred simply minutes after the sport ended, so the loss nonetheless was very recent for Group Canada, which had received gold on the earlier 4 Olympics and anticipated to do the identical in Pyeongchang.
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You understand what they are saying: Second place is simply the primary loser.
