I'm super annoyed!

[oanja]

Hockey is going terribly for Finland. The women's team lost to freaking Sweden, which is always worse than losing to someone else. And then they announced that Barkov messed up his knee so badly he won't be able to play anymore. ;____; We have lost three first line players so far... Things look great, I'm sure everything will go perfectly against Canada tomorrow.



Also listening to hockey podcasts during the Olympics is a sure way into rage territory. They just seem so perfectly confident that it'll be Canada vs USA in the final. Fuck off! Like Marek vs Wyshynski were laughing about Crosby vs Barkov (first line centers at the time) and seriously: fuck off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Ahem, yeah, it's not like I get too into hockey or anything.

USA-Russia was pretty interesting. Oshie vs Bobrovsky in the end. Seeing USA win makes me sad.

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[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

It's so sad about Raty too. She's so right about everything and it's awful. :(

[oanja.livejournal.com]

Yes, everything sucks.

Well not everything, but I don't want to be reasonable about this... ^_^;

I do agree with what Räty said, there should and could be a pro league in North America for women's hockey, but at the same time I felt like she was being a bit disrespectful to her teammates, who are all doing this without getting paid... Like some of them are forty! and still playing just to represent our country. Also I think most of olympic athletes have "real" jobs besides competing, so idk. Reality sucks.

[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

I do see your point, but I don't think it's unfair of her to point out that it's very different to become elite in a team sport than an individual sport? Not that it's not extremely difficult to become a speedskater or a luger, but it's a different set of difficulties? You don't need a full team's worth of people or further full teams of opponents. It just isn't possible to become a hockey player all on your lonesome and yet everyone expects that of women and then judges them for being amateurs when professionals exist.