united states won the woman's olympic hockey game.
united states won the woman's olympic hockey game.
who won the woman's olympic hockey game?
united states
the ice hockey tournament took place at blyth arena and the squaw valley olympic skating rink. controversy over the amateur status of some of the players overshadowed the event. canadian olympic officials objected to the use of "professional amateurs" by eastern bloc countries, and especially the soviet union. they alleged that the soviets were giving their elite hockey players phantom jobs in the military that allowed them to play hockey full-time, which gave soviet teams an advantage that they used to dominate olympic hockey tournaments for nearly 30 years. this issue started coming to light during the 1960 games and would culminate in a canadian boycott of the olympic hockey tournament at the 1972 and 1976 winter olympics. the team from the united states won an improbable gold medal, defeating the favored canadian and soviet teams, who took silver and bronze respectively. this was the first olympic gold medal in ice hockey for the united states and it would mark the last time a soviet team did not win the olympic tournament until the united states victory at the 1980 winter olympics.
1960 winter olympics
olympic hockey 98, known in japan as is an ice hockey game for the nintendo 64 that was released in 1998. it is a re-release of "wayne gretzky's 3d hockey", but this time not endorsed by wayne gretzky and featuring the license for the 1998 winter olympics that were celebrated in nagano, japan. it is also a video game developer debut of treyarch besides the box art, in-game titles, and some minor graphic changes (such as team logos and colors), every single aspect of the game is practically identical to "wayne gretzky's 3d hockey". ign rated "olympic hockey nagano '98" a zero, the lowest rated ign game of all time, due to this fact.
olympic hockey nagano '98