I love watching most sports and have enjoyed the Winter Olympics. I wonder if I am the only one disturbed however by how important chance seems to be in many winter events. I am particularly thinking about short track skating and snowboard cross. The Olympics should be about being the best,not the luckiest.
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IMHO the poor performance by the US and Canadian hockey teams was compounded by the NHL work stoppage last year. Most US and Canadian born players did little on ice training, whereas many more of the European born players returned to their home country elite leagues and got reaquainted with playing on the bigger ice surface. It's easier to adapt to playing on a small NHL ice surface after playing most of your formative years on the larger Olympic size surface. In a swimming perspective one would find it much easier to adapt from long course metres to short course yards than vice versa.
IMHO the poor performance by the US and Canadian hockey teams was compounded by the NHL work stoppage last year. Most US and Canadian born players did little on ice training, whereas many more of the European born players returned to their home country elite leagues and got reaquainted with playing on the bigger ice surface. It's easier to adapt to playing on a small NHL ice surface after playing most of your formative years on the larger Olympic size surface. In a swimming perspective one would find it much easier to adapt from long course metres to short course yards than vice versa.
