Two things which are making me sad

[lesbiassparrow]

1. The fact that my paper is not only a pile of rubbish, it also a pile of completely and ridiculously complicated rubbish. That's the problem of papers which are distributed in advance - people get to see all the flaws in your argument at their leisure and can turn up with all sorts of witty and mean comments prepared. However, as it has to be sent off on Wednesday at least it will be out of the way for the long weekend...leaving me free to write two abstracts and work on another paper. But still I am getting a free trip to New York out of this and that's not too bad.

2. The blowouts in women's hockey at the Olympics. I know that this is pretty much a two team tournament but it is still pretty painful to see Canada and USA dominate to the extent that they do. It's not good for women's hockey in the long run to have such an imbalance and I worry that it may end up in having women's hockey yanked from the games. Both North American teams have a vested interest in seeing the rest of the world begin to improve and develop their hockey programmes more as a way to keep this game interesting, but it's just not happening that I can see. It's not much fun watching a blowout on the scale of 16-0 - nor is it even interesting hockey.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What if it was the American's playing a blow-out game which they did against the Germans, would the situation be any different? What about the Russians dominating men's hockey for years? The North Americans have slowly prevailed in that arena? Women's olympic hocky is only 3 olympics old and it needs time. Aren't we also sick of the Europeans dominating the figure skating arena and it took the Canadians to finally open that wound. Americans also dominate in the number of medals won and maybe that should be an issue since the country is able to provide way more resources to the athlethes both in training and sponsorship. It's too bad that it's come to athletes defending their talents when winning.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I don't think athletes have to apologise for their talent, which is not what I said. I said that it's not a very interesting tournament when two teams are so dominant, nor do I think it's good for women hockey that the Olympics (which is their biggest moment) is so lop-sided. It hardly makes you want to watch many of the games if you know it's going to be a total blow-out every single time.

As for Europe dominating figure skating, well that's a) not one country and b) plenty of non Europeans have won medals and given the favourites a run for their money.

Personally, I think it would be better for women's hockey in the long run if there was more competition in the Olympics from other teams. We're on the third Olympics and this is still a contest of two teams with no other country coming close.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

T1n3d!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)