when the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea takes place next year it will be 20 years since women's ice hockey became a medal event (started in Nagano, Japan 1998)-since that time Canada has won gold 4 times the Americans once--no other country has even come close-and the divide hasn't changed-in fact it's gotten wider--so what's the point of having it in the Olympics when its always the same two teams in the final---and let's make a bet that the 2018 games will be the same thing-as will 2021 in Beijing--its doesn't belong in the Olympics until every team is on an even playing field