Olympics: Women's Hockey- North Korea and South Korea want to play on same team for olympics

[hockeykicker]

kind of shocking

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[SotasicA]

The South figured they're less likely to get hit by a missile if there's North Korean players on their team.

As if the North cared about collateral damage.

 

[kabidjan18]

Only China will not like this.

 

[Urbanskog]

I suppose hockey would at least gain some publicity in the Korean Peninsula as a result.

 

[Albatros]

I suppose hockey would at least gain some publicity in the Korean Peninsula as a result.

I'm not sure about women, but men's hockey is even televised in North Korea (attendance looks like Buffalo though):

 

[LeafChief]

Interesting.

 

[Jablkon]

There was a topic about that mixed korean hockey team in czech newspapers. Basically describing how mad south korean hockey athletes are now. They said politician told them “be ready for this”, apart from the problem that south korean hockey federation has no communication channel with north korean association. They dont know how to build this team, which players to add from North Korea, who would coach them etc and they should play first match in three weeks....

Its important from global perspective but I can see the rage among hockey people in South Korea.

 

[Urbanskog]

North and South Korea 'agree on united women's hockey team and joint entrance for Winter Olympics'

It's happening.

 

[Tomas W]

The Korean females will have 0 chance to have any kind of success either way, so who cares.

 

[COHawk]

The Korean females will have 0 chance to have any kind of success either way, so who cares.

Because politically it is a big deal.

 

[Tomas W]

Because politically it is a big deal.

Yeah yeah, now the NK might not nuke the olympic village, horray! Sometimes it feels like we live in a Monty Pyton schetch. Its all just charades and clownplay, when comes to politics.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

South Korea’s female hockey players hate the idea of a joint Korean Olympic team

But the South Korean players aren’t particularly happy at the prospect of North Korea crashing their Olympics debut. The women’s team coach, Sarah Murray, told reporters yesterday (Jan. 16) that there might be “damage” to the team because “the players have earned their spots and they think they deserve to go to the Olympics.”
...More North Korean athletes could take part in the Olympics if they’re added to the female hockey roster. South Korea’s sports minister said that the government plans to ask the IOC whether it can expand the team’s current roster of 23 to more than 30. He tried to placate the South Korean team by explaining that as hockey is played in short shifts, all players would get a turn on the ice.
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Murray, the coach, added that she was “kind of shocked” that the possibility of fielding a joint team with North Korea was announced so close to the start of the games. An unnamed official with South Korea’s ice hockey association told Reuters that the team was “furious” and “utterly speechless” at the proposal.
The idea for fielding a joint team was actually first floated last summer by South Korea’s sports minister. Murray said she didn’t think the matter would be raised again after those talks.

 

[canuck2010]

Canadian coach by the way. She's happy that it happened in terms of world events but not too happy that it happened so late in the game.

 

[DoyleG]

Main points.
- Roster will be set at 35 players (the South Korean team + 12 North Korean players).
- Game roster will still be 22 players, of which 3 must be North Korean.

The only concession gained was that the South Korean coach will select which 3 North Koreans get to play each game.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

The only concession gained was that the South Korean coach will select which 3 North Koreans get to play each game.

Did Kim Jong-un want to do that?

 

[Vancouver_2010]

Not sure this is the right place. What are they thinking by letting North Koreans to join their women's roster? Imagine working hard for years to make the team, just to be told that North Korean players are joining them, so they have taken your roster space. Sorry, just wait four more years?

 

[Albatros]

Not sure this is the right place. What are they thinking by letting North Koreans to join their women's roster? Imagine working hard for years to make the team, just to be told that North Korean players are joining them, so they have taken your roster space. Sorry, just wait four more years?

They already got a bunch of Canadians and Americans there, is that ultimately any better?

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Not sure this is the right place. What are they thinking by letting North Koreans to join their women's roster? Imagine working hard for years to make the team, just to be told that North Korean players are joining them, so they have taken your roster space. Sorry, just wait four more years?

The IOC enlarged the roster (for them only)

 

[offkilter]

They already got a bunch of Canadians and Americans there, is that ultimately any better?

Considering many of those Canadians and Americans have lived in the country for years, got citizenship, and earned their roster spots through the selection process vs having a handful of players you've never trained with dumped on you at the last possible moment and taking your gameday roster spot all because of a flimsy political statement then yes the North Americans import players are the better option.

 

[Albatros]

Considering many of those Canadians and Americans have lived in the country for years, got citizenship, and earned their roster spots through the selection process vs having a handful of players you've never trained with dumped on you at the last possible moment and taking your gameday roster spot all because of a flimsy political statement then yes the North Americans import players are the better option.

Which many would these be? None have done so. All of them were scouted and brought in from North America by the Korean Ice Hockey Association explicitly for this Olympic project. Unlike the North Koreans, these North Americans actually did take away spots from the native South Korean players.

 

[offkilter]

Which many would these be? None have done so. All of them were scouted and brought in from North America by the Korean Ice Hockey Association explicitly for this Olympic project. Unlike the North Koreans, these North Americans actually did take away spots from the native South Korean players.

Well on the men's side both Brock Radunske and Michael Swift have lived and played there for 10+ years. The point is the men's team was planned and has played together for months. That's plenty of time to gel. The women on the other hand? They made the decision to integrate just a couple weeks before the games and time that should be spent working on strategy and tactics is spent trying to fit strangers nobody has skated with into the lineup because they have to fit in three per game.

 

[Habs76]

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