Canada and the United States will return to play the final after continuing to raze somewhat less than in 2010
Female ice hockey is still an exclusively American affair. From the United States and Canada. The same happened in the figure skating dance, mixed modality. But in the sport of equipment with an insulting, excessive tone, almost similar to the ridiculous one of four years ago when its victories were goleadas of scandal. Both rivals will play again the final, as in the best times of Barcelona and Madrid. There is not even a third party in discord, Athletic type. The rest have played another tournament. It has been like the Spanish football league.
In the men's tournament, where the quarterfinals are already played today, the situation is similar, but in a much smaller tone. There is still cloth to be cut. Both teams have qualified directly by adding the highest number of points, along with Sweden and Finland, the two Nordic rivals who also look serious contenders for the medals. The Finns, for example, only yielded to Canada, 2-1, in overtime. Sweden is undefeated. Russia is still waiting after the defeat against the Americans. Yesterday he thrashed Norway, 4-0, in the playoff game that he should have played as a punishment, but he did not put it back on until the third period. And the Norwegians were the loosest Nordics. Precisely the Finns will be the new great test for Russia today (the remaining quarters: Sweden-Slovenia, Canada-Latvia and the United States-Czech Republic). Then it will be a toss-up, while the protests of the fans have still taken place due to the goal canceled in their match against the United States. The goalkeeper moved the goal involuntarily a few seconds before and was adjusted to regulation, but not digested. As there is no improvement, the embarrassment can be definitive.
The women's hockey tournament is still a non-universal tournament. Already written
In one of the women's semifinals, 14.46 minutes were missing in the second period of the three of 20 when Jessica Lutz scored the Swiss goal. Canada was already winning 3-0 from the first half. The Swiss celebrated as if they had won the gold. After going below in statistics with 38-12 in shots on goal and 19-6 on goal occasions, it was no wonder. His goalkeeper Schelling treasured the record of having suffered 258 shots in five games.Raty, even from the eliminated Finland, followed with only 164. It was a lottery that the result was much worse than 3-1 against. The Swiss continued to defend themselves as jabatas and endured the result. They are really in the glory since they eliminated the hosts, Russia, in the quarterfinals, and thus saw the path of the bronze medal. Only that, because his defeat was sung, like that of Sweden, with whom they will dispute it. The Swedes were even more thrashed by the United States, 6-1.
The women's hockey tournament is still a non-universal tournament. Already written. In 2010, Canada and the United States win, it seems more effective now, but it will have to overcome the greater physical power of the Canadians. In the semifinal they even took one of the colleges that had to be attended by the doctors.
From dyslexic heroin to Ravel's Bolero
In any case, the level of attraction on the other side of the Atlantic has warmed up the progress of the two men's teams and the attraction of a new duel for women's gold. In addition, the fine aesthetics of the figure skating dance came after the series of North American medals in the new modalities of snowboarding and free skiing. The last American heroes are the amazing Meryl Davis, with third degree dyslexia, and Terry White, their great support, who won the first title in history for the United States dethroning the Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Muir. While the Spanish couple was half the participants in a worthy debut, the North Americans loved at the top.
Davis and White, who have known each other since childhood, their families live close by and their mothers always accompany them, they even beat their world record of scoring in the free program. In figure skating there are already records, as in athletics or swimming, as if the judges were always the same. But the serious reconversion of the code of scores, forced after the scandals of corruption 10 years ago, already began to crack in Sochi. The French couple Nathalie Pezarat-Fabian Bourzat, frustrated by their fourth place that left them without an Olympic medal in their retirement, were surprised at the exaggerated improvement of the score given to the Russian winning bronze pair compared to their performance in the competition for teams. And they ended by saying that waltzing or more traditional music seems to enchant judges more. Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov used Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
The Americans took revenge of their defeat in 2010 against the Canadians and even appeared the speculation of an arrangement for their victory after that of the Russians Volosojar and Trankov in pairs. Exaggerated. What was seen on the track was that they seemed to win fairly. After Vancouver, Davis and White applied even more and won the two World Cups between the Games, in 2011 and 2013. Nobody discussed their improvement. They were one step higher than Virtue and Moir before Sochi and they confirmed it. The two couples planned their season with Russian music, and not coincidentally, without a doubt. Tribute to the great event. And the Scheherezade of Rimsky-Korsakov defeated the Little Adagio, Waltz in Concert No. 2 of Alexander Glazunov. The combinations, turns and hoists were more perfect, as it had already happened in the short program with the same obligatory music of Foxtrot and Quickstep.More than two points of advantage in both cases made the difference.
Davis and White are the fourth non-Russian or Soviet couple (dominators in seven of 11 editions) who have won the dance since entering the Olympic program at the Innsbruck Games 76. It was added to the couples and the classic individuals to further enhance the aesthetic details, without the jumps, which in their case are prohibited. In addition to Virtue and Moir in 2010, the French Marina Anissina (curiously of Russian origin) and Gwendal Peizerat won in Salt Lake City 2002. But perhaps the brightest gold in history, an oasis of luxury in the midst of Soviet rule, was that of the British couple Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean, a genius of choreography. His Bolero de Ravel de Sarajevo 84 reached sublime levels of beauty and quality and has always been one of the highlights of Olympic history. They came back for Lillehammer 94, but it was not their time anymore and they were only bronze. They had already uncovered the whole jar of essences.
