Olympics: Looking for someone knowledgeable about 1980 Canadian Olympic Hockey Team

[jj cale]

Lesson here? Never trust a guy with a first name like "Dewey"

 

[cjm502]

Being on an Olympic hockey team 45 years ago is such a strange lie to make up and run with. When I was a kid I was playing street hockey with my cousin and some old dude I have never seen before came walking down the street with a hockey stick and started telling us about how he was a late round pick for the Leafs a million years ago. I thought he was a crazy old man (well, he still might have been) but even as an old dude his skill was very evident and he obviously played high level hockey earlier in his life. He gave us kids some tips on how to protect the puck and come out from board battles with the puck and wandered off to wherever he came from with his hockey stick. You should set up a company hockey game and let Mr. Olympian show everyone his sick skills.

 

[Devilmademedoit]

Well I have emailed back to the Olympic History committee, so lets see that what they say and I have emailed his company to get their response. This should be good

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Have a feeling this guy is gonna get fired over this which is kind of a bummer. Don’t like to see anyone lose their jobs

 

[Boonk]

Have a feeling this guy is gonna get fired over this which is kind of a bummer. Don’t like to see anyone lose their jobs

The guy lied about his credentials for monetary and social profit and got to a high level position where hes employed. People believed in him and are paying him good money when he lied to their faces. Thats pretty bad no matter how you spin it. A company's reputation and market security could be completely tarnished by something like this.

 

[MeHateHe]

Being on an Olympic hockey team 45 years ago is such a strange lie to make up and run with.

People make up the weirdest shit and just expect people to not check.

I follow a website that goes into the sometimes hilarious lengths people will lie or dissemble about their exploits in marathons, and I came across this page.

Surf City USA Marathon Responds To Criticism In a Puzzling Way - MarathonInvestigation

The Surf City USA Marathon was held just about a month ago in Huntington Beach, California. The reviews were a bit mixed. On Facebook runners commented that it was very congested–at one point narrowing to a single lane on an out and back section, leading runners to pass on the opposite side of...

www.marathoninvestigation.com

tl:dr, a race director gave his own marathon a positive review on FB, and then the marathon's FB page responded to it. In other words, he responded to his own review. It was bizarre. But it gets better.

Scroll down to the comments, and it seems this particular race director claimed on his linkedin to have played pro hockey, but there's no evidence on any reputable hockey reference to him having played anywhere.

Oh, but it gets better. Because there's a website that looks an awful lot like hockeydb containing the hockey stats of just this one player.

Guy Terriff Hockey

From his impressive skating skills to his unbeatable puck handling, Guy Terriff never fails to amaze us with his talent.

canadianhockeydb.com

It shows him having played for the Calgary Wranglers in the WHL for three years and then seven years in minor pro - including one in the AHL. And again, no evidence that any of this actually occurred.

It's a weird pathology that someone would make up a lie about themselves.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

People make up the weirdest shit and just expect people to not check.

I follow a website that goes into the sometimes hilarious lengths people will lie or dissemble about their exploits in marathons, and I came across this page.

Surf City USA Marathon Responds To Criticism In a Puzzling Way - MarathonInvestigation

The Surf City USA Marathon was held just about a month ago in Huntington Beach, California. The reviews were a bit mixed. On Facebook runners commented that it was very congested–at one point narrowing to a single lane on an out and back section, leading runners to pass on the opposite side of...

www.marathoninvestigation.com

tl:dr, a race director gave his own marathon a positive review on FB, and then the marathon's FB page responded to it. In other words, he responded to his own review. It was bizarre. But it gets better.

Scroll down to the comments, and it seems this particular race director claimed on his linkedin to have played pro hockey, but there's no evidence on any reputable hockey reference to him having played anywhere.

Yeah some of the marathon, triathlon, etc cheater stories are wild. Those communities can be pretty vigilant about self-policing that kind of thing. A well respected doctor in LA was accused of cheating in the marathon there a few years ago and made national headlines when they found a video of him appearing to cut the course. Really sad story, dude ended up committing suicide a few days later.

There was a lot of guilt over how aggressively he got called out and I think the running community has chilled out a lot in terms of how they approach those things now. Trying to be more discreet by reaching out to alleged cheaters directly and giving them a chance to come clean and disqualify themselves, whereas before they were emailing major news outlets trying out/shame people.

 

[MeHateHe]

Yeah some of the marathon, triathlon, etc cheater stories are wild. Those communities can be pretty vigilant about self-policing that kind of thing. A well respected doctor in LA was accused of cheating in the marathon there a few years ago and made national headlines when they found a video of him appearing to cut the course. Really sad story, dude ended up committing suicide a few days later.

That is the story of Frank Meza, who had claimed the world record for fastest marathon at his age group.

Dr. Frank Meza Facing Scrutiny after Record Breaking Marathons - MarathonInvestigation

Frank Meza has seemingly defied the clock. At age 70 he is running record marathon times. His marathon results have been improving over the past 10 years. Frank recently has turned 70 years old and has run record times for his age group. The records have not been deemed official because they...

www.marathoninvestigation.com

It was a sad story, and in fairness, he had multiple opportunities to come clean, or clear things up, but he just kind of entrenched himself, even when the evidence was pretty compelling that he was cheating. He was a decent runner - a 3:19 marathon at age 60 is pretty good - but he was looking for greater fame and it caught up with him. Tragic the way it ended, and lying doesn't merit a death sentence in any case.

In a marathon I ran, I finished just ahead of a woman who would later claim on her Strava that she'd run a sub-3:00 marathon, but her official results were like 3:02 or something. Turns out she stopped her watch a couple hundred yards before the finish line so her Strava time would register at 2:59:58 or something. I don't understand how these people (including our pal Dewey) could possibly think they could bluff their way through something that is actually fairly easily verifiably a lie.

Telling the truth usually doesn't come with repercussions. People ought to stick with it.

Also, I won the gold medal in the 1972 Olympics in the long jump.

 

[PanniniClaus]

That is the story of Frank Meza, who had claimed the world record for fastest marathon at his age group.

Dr. Frank Meza Facing Scrutiny after Record Breaking Marathons - MarathonInvestigation

Frank Meza has seemingly defied the clock. At age 70 he is running record marathon times. His marathon results have been improving over the past 10 years. Frank recently has turned 70 years old and has run record times for his age group. The records have not been deemed official because they...

www.marathoninvestigation.com

It was a sad story, and in fairness, he had multiple opportunities to come clean, or clear things up, but he just kind of entrenched himself, even when the evidence was pretty compelling that he was cheating. He was a decent runner - a 3:19 marathon at age 60 is pretty good - but he was looking for greater fame and it caught up with him. Tragic the way it ended, and lying doesn't merit a death sentence in any case.

In a marathon I ran, I finished just ahead of a woman who would later claim on her Strava that she'd run a sub-3:00 marathon, but her official results were like 3:02 or something. Turns out she stopped her watch a couple hundred yards before the finish line so her Strava time would register at 2:59:58 or something. I don't understand how these people (including our pal Dewey) could possibly think they could bluff their way through something that is actually fairly easily verifiably a lie.

Telling the truth usually doesn't come with repercussions. People ought to stick with it.

Also, I won the gold medal in the 1972 Olympics in the long jump.

Congrats on the 72 gold. Not an easy field to beat.