Overview of Olympic hockey this year

[citizenerased]

I mean, I understand it, but he was also under care of the Capitals' doctor and had that medication approved by the NHL. That should have allowed him an exemption. It's hard when you have "professional" athletes like hockey players come into the Olympics though, because they have to be worried about two sets of rules for performance enhancers.

I bet they couldn't even name the Parise's team, and he's the captain of the squad.

The IOC are tough sonsofbitches these days, especially after the hit they took with the free for all in athletics in the 80's.

There was a Scottish skier in Salt Lake City who lost his medal because the American verison of his Vicks inhaler which he used for those two weeks contained trace amounts of a banned substance that the British version did not.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Backstrom was given a silver medal, can't believe they even though to withhold one from him:shifty: