The Chinese national team met the USA in the Olympic ice hockey tournament. A defeat was inevitable for the hosts. This is probably one of the reasons why state television did not even broadcast the game.
For fear of having to subject the viewers to a debacle of their own national team, Chinese state television decided not to broadcast the ice hockey duel with the USA. At least that’s what the Asia sports correspondent for the AFP news agency, Peter Stebbings, reports.
The host of the winter games had already taken into account the lack of quality and the fear of embarrassment at the “home games” with mass naturalization. Actually, China would have been world number 32. sporty namely had lost nothing at the Olympics. A total of 15 foreign ice hockey professionals received Chinese citizenship without further ado in order to be able to wear the jerseys of the Middle Kingdom at the Olympics (Read more about this here).
USA compete with students in Beijing
As early as September, the president of the ice hockey world association, Luc Tardif, said: “Watching a team that is beaten 0:15 is not good for anyone. Not for China and not for ice hockey.”
It wasn’t quite as drastic for the Chinese on Wednesday. Nevertheless, the decision-makers on Chinese state television should have been happy about their decision not to broadcast the game – it was a juicy bankruptcy: The USA finished off the ragtag team, whose squad only included ten native Chinese, 8-0.
Spicy: The USA will be in Beijing without the stars of the North American professional league NHL. Due to corona quarrels, which completely messed up the schedule of the best ice hockey league in the world, an Olympic ban was imposed on the NHL professionals. Instead, “Team USA” arrived with a mix of students and professionals who earn their money abroad. It was still enough for China.