Should Hockey be played in the summer olympics?
149005
No, but if you think about it, Basketball should be in the winter games.  It was invented as a sport for the winter, its season beings in November, peeks in Feb-March and ends before the summer.  And the Hockey All-star game belongs where it is, it provides a needed break, and a chance to retool for a playoff push.  The NFL wishes it could do its allstar game before the end of the season
28427
First of all, I'm glad to see that somebody else besides me would prefer the olympics to be a sporting event, and not a biography on obscure athletes.  I can't stand to watch the olympics, because they never actually show any sports.\n\nBut... to answer your questions, it won't be all focused on ice skaters in mini skirts.  There will also be advertisements every 4.5 minutes.
150156
because there are (feelslike) 1000 sports for summer but winter needs stupid stuff to fill in time. I love snowboard but I think its not olympic, Maybe just slalom.  plus its hard to include,more, sports that are judged subjectivly like figure skating.
5903
I'd say you were right about the 1980 Olympic Hockey team.  The underdog U.S. team beat the Russians at a time when the U.S. needed victories.
991840
Well, given that India has won only 17 medals in it's history, it is a little embarrassing for a nation of it's size and population, about 1.2 billion people. They won one medal in 2004 for shooting\n\nWhen you consider that Denmark (for example), a nation of about 5.5 million people has won some 163 medals including 39 gold, it kinda makes one wonder what's up with India. And Denmark incidentally, won 8 medals in 2004 including 2 gold....\n\nI don't believe they should stop competing, but perhaps focus on core sports where they've had success like in field hockey.
106796
I think because anything classified as a sporting event it requires a certain degree of athleticism, skill, practice, dedication, and (in the case of team sports) team-work; add in an opportunity to test your levels against others to find out who is best and you have a sporting event(you mentioned NASCAR in your question details... driving a car in a big circle for a couple of hours doesn't require much athleticism either, but it is still considered a sport, right?)\n\nNow why it is considered an Olympic event... well, it is a sport with growing popularity in many countries that participate in the Olympics (Canada, many of the northern European countries, and a growing fan-base in the northern United States), and the Olympics have been a fairground for countries to show off new and/or unusual sporting events from around the world (Ice Dancing... the poor-man's figure skating OR "I'm just doing this until Disney-on-Ice calls me in for an interview!").  Some of the events catch on and become world-wide phenomenons, others fizzle and die.\n\n<Added>I added athleticism to the list of skills needed because there is a degree of athleticism to curling that you don't find in other strategy games (chess, for example). I mean, watch the curlers in the Olympics. They are running around on ICE for Pete's sake! Any time I step on ice I fall on my... personality... but these guys are running up and down the ice as if they were walking in the grass! And it isn't just the shoes they wear. I saw a documentary on the U.S. Olympic curling team and they showed people trying to do it and they were falling all over the place.
1084945
No, the typical Canadian does not play growing up.\nNot everyone understands the rules.\nAnyone can play as well as ladies, young or old.\nIt seems as if the fun is in the playing more than observing.\nNot all schools have a team, not all schools have access to an ice surface to play and practice.
517037
I like hockey because it is a fast paced game. NBA started to bore me to death. Since hockey was going on at the same time, i started to watch it. I picked up on the rules/strategies really easily.
117859
Hockey is okay for kids, just know what you're getting into. High school games rarely have fights and are often more exciting. Lower level pro games (United Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League, American Hockey League) are more likely to feature fights.\n\nNHL Pro games are less likely to have a fight these days since the playoffs are right around the corner and no one wants to break their hand or miss a game because each contest is so important.
655936
here is my opinion on it.  with hockey, the longer you play the harder and harder it is to maintain a level of excellence.  very few people can play hockey really well.  while the same is true for soccer, i think it is to a lesser degree.  i would chose soccer.
148717
Yes it will be a good olympic sport in the future. But it will take time to get there if you notice snowboarding in now a olympic sport. It will take time though and the more paintball is brought out of the woods the better chance it will have. \nI think you will see a format like X-ball in the olympics before anything else.
91871
Aye!\nhttp://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/ATH/X01_IRL_1.html\n(The ENTIRE Irish Olympic team has only 4 members, certainly not enough to field a hockey team.  And they are all in downhill/crosscountry sports, 3 skiing and 1 skeleton.)\n\nhttp://www.olympic-council.ie/history.html
984643
Tough question.  I would probably not do it, since playing all sports, including hockey, is an absolute joy.  Unless it came with a salary of $10 million, then I would reconsider....
415652
i agree with you...netball should be an olympic sport.
1112458
no.  why should it.  World Cup team won't go that far, there is no interest in it professionally here, and there is too much competition for the sports person's attention between football, baseball, basketball, NASCAR, hockey, golf, tennis, etc.\n\nSoccer is a distant thought for most people.
692552
it would take too long to travel to other hockey countries like russia, sweden, czech republic etc.  canada and the u.s. are in the same contintent so that makes it easier.
150761
I don't think so. The looked abysmal against Latvia and that tie will cost them down the line. The roster could be better too. They left their best goalie back in the states: Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres. That was a huge mistake!\n\nI think the three medalists will be Russia, Sweden and Finland, probably in that order.