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U.S. And Canadian Women"s Hockey Brings Plenty Of Heat To The Ice

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hide captionThe rival teams have already clashed during a Sochi Olympics preparation game last December. They will face each other in an early round game tomorrow.

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The rival teams have already clashed during a Sochi Olympics preparation game last December. They will face each other in an early round game tomorrow.

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Wednesday, the American women’s hockey team meets their arch rival Canada on the ice in Sochi at the Winter Olympics. It’s an early round game, but when it comes to these two teams, which are expected to meet in the gold medal game, there’s no such thing as a low-stakes match.

When they meet on the ice, things get heated: A match between the two teams in late December turned into a brawl. After the “melee,” the referees handed out 10 fighting majors and other infractions.

They also got into a fight in October, and those fights turned women’s hockey into a bit of an Internet sensation. Some fights went viral, but they’re not unusual, says Brianne Jenner, a Canadian forward.

“It’s not as rare as people think,” she says. “It’s just not always caught on video.”

“That’s just kind of what happens when you’re in an intense hockey game,” she says. “You know, it was just part of a hockey game and I think it’s good that… so many people are interested in it at least.”

These fights come up a lot, like probably in every single interview these women have done since arriving in Sochi. And the athletes seem conflicted: Yes, the fights happened; no, it’s not all that common. They are neither embarrassed nor proud. But, yes, it could happen again. Lyndsey Fry is an American forward.

“Pretty much everyone I’ve ever talked to that’s never seen a women’s game before, even in college, they’ll leave and be, like, so impressed,” Fry says. “It’s like, ‘Well, yeah, maybe you should have come out a little sooner.’

“There’s all the media coverage of the fight or whatever and it’s like, ‘That’s not really what women’s hockey is all about, but if it gets people watching, they’re going to fall in love with the sport.’”

‘One Of The Best Rivalries In Sport’

What is it about this rivalry that makes it so intense?

Two things: They play each other all the time; and when it comes to women’s hockey, America and Canada are in a league all their own. Both teams are coming into tomorrow’s game undefeated, and those games weren’t even close.

Take the one Monday between the U.S. and Switzerland. In a matter of 55 seconds, Team USA scored three goals — an American Olympic record. There were only eight seconds between the second goal and the third; the celebratory music hadn’t even stopped playing before they scored again.

Amanda Kessel scored two of the goals.

“When you score so many quickly, it just knocks the wind out of the other team,” she says.

Kessel, whose brother plays in the NHL, spoke after the game, which ended with a score of 9-0.

“It’s tough to get back up on your feet,” she says. “You just kind of keep pounding them and keep pounding them, and I think that’s what really did it to them.”

If history is any guide, the Canada game will be a whole lot closer, and when it comes to these two teams, there’s plenty of history. They met seven times in three months late last year. Jayna Hefford, who has played for Team Canada since the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, says it is one of the best rivalries in sport because the two teams push each other to get better.

“It’s intense, and it’s the games you want to play in as an athlete,” she says.”I think as a fan, those are the games that people love to watch, so it’s the best game to be in for sure.”

And a lot of people will be watching this time to see whether they throw off their gloves and fight again.

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Police "doubt" Peru women"s claims

17 August 2013
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Video footage shows Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid questioned in Peru on suspicion of drug trafficking

The head of Ibiza’s police investigation into drug trafficking claims against two UK women has cast doubt on claims they were coerced into trying to smuggle drugs out of Peru.

Melissa Reid, from Lenzie near Glasgow, and Michaella McCollum, from Dungannon, both 20, are accused of trying to smuggle £1.5m worth of cocaine.

The pair deny the claims, saying they were forced into it by a gang in Ibiza.

But police said they had several opportunities to alert the authorities.

First Sergeant Alberto Arean Varela, head of the anti-drug and organised crime police unit at the Guardia Civil in Ibiza, said the claims ran counter to his knowledge of trafficking cases.

“Sincerely, with my experience, I don’t think these girls were forced to do this,” he told the BBC.

“Because, particularly when you go to South America, you need to pass several consuls so the first thing you [would] do is go to the passport consul and say ‘Listen, this is what is happening to me’, and the police will react – so I don’t think they were forced.”

‘Not typical’

Dr Jennifer Fleetwood, criminology lecturer at the University of Leicester, who has carried out research into the involvement of women in the international drugs trade, said their experience did not appear to be typical.

“We know that most drug mules are male – women represent about 20% but that does not mean that their story is not plausible… anyone who researches this [issue] finds people who have been coerced,” she told BBC Radio 4′s Today Programme.

The pair, who are expected to appear in court in Lima next week, could face lengthy prison sentences if found guilty of drug smuggling.

Ms Reid and Ms McCollum had been working at bars in San Antonio, the main resort for thousands of young British tourists every summer, when they said they were befriended by a man from London.

They claimed they were then forced at gunpoint to make the journey to Peru, shadowed by gang members along the way.

They were stopped on 6 August when they tried to board a flight from Lima airport to Madrid.

Police said they found more than 24lb (11kg) of cocaine in food packaging in the women’s luggage.

The women have previously said they were unable to go to the authorities because the gang had threatened to kill their families if they did not co-operate.

The National Police of Peru released a video of the women being questioned just after their arrest.

Denials issued

In it, Ms Reid answers said: “I was forced to take these bags in my luggage”.

Ms Reid’s father, William, who has flown to Lima to see his daughter, has said there was no way she would have been willingly involved.

Ms McCollum’s family issued a statement through their lawyer saying she denied involvement in any criminal offence.

Her lawyer left Belfast for the Peruvian capital on Friday.

“If she is charged she will be denying it,” he told reporters.

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NYC Lesbian Candidate Struggles to Win Women"s Vote

At Cubbyhole, a popular New York lesbian bar, for every two revelers who praised City Council speaker Christine Quinn in her race to become the city’s first woman and first openly gay mayor, one complained about her style and political policies.

“Just because she’s a lesbian, it doesn’t mean I’ll vote for her,” said Veronica Gonzales, 32, who works for a non-profit organization. “She is not socially liberal enough, and she has this air about her like she is above it all – like she is above us.”

While fellow candidate Anthony Weiner’s extramarital sexual transgressions have dominated the headlines, a perplexing reality of the race for mayor of the nation’s largest city is Quinn’s failure to lock up the votes of women and gays, even though she herself is both.

Quinn is the only woman in the race, and the only openly gay candidate, yet she scored only 30 percent support from women in a survey by Quinnipiac University published on July 29. Polls do not break down voting preferences by sexual orientation.

The presumed front-runner of the six candidates vying to succeed Michael Bloomberg has failed to crack the 40 percent level of overall support, the percentage needed to win the Democratic primary on Sept. 10 and avoid a runoff between the top two finishers.

In a runoff with black candidate William Thompson, Quinn would lose 50 percent to 40 percent, the Quinnipiac poll found.

Despite its progressive reputation, New York City has elected few women to citywide office. The best known was Elizabeth Holtzman, who held the top financial post of comptroller from 1990 to 1993. The most recent was Betsy Gotbaum, public advocate until 2009, although Quinn as speaker of the city council is considered the most powerful official after the mayor.

VOTERS AMBIVALENT

In New York’s Greenwich Village, with its significant gay and lesbian population, support for Quinn was mixed.

Gonzales plans to vote for Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who she said is “more straightforward about his agenda.”

The ambivalence has contributed to a sense that Quinn is unable to close out the race, and one of the other candidates could overtake her, even as support wanes for Weiner.

“Right now, all signs point to a runoff, and with voters not connecting with anyone in particular, it’s going to be a fluid race,” said Lee Miringoff of the Marist poll. “It is very important for Quinn to sharpen her message so that she starts to get into a better shape to do better down the road.”

Voters critical of Quinn most often mention her style, which some view as brash and calculating. Quinn’s backing of a temporary change in the city’s term-limits law, which allowed Bloomberg and other lawmakers to run for a third term, has also been used against her.

De Blasio has positioned himself as a liberal alternative to Quinn on issues such as funding for universal pre-kindergarten programs and preventing hospital closings.

“She needs to do better in the long run with women voters,” Miringoff said. “If she is going to be successful she needs to create a greater appeal among women voters. And to do that, she needs to put her campaign in an historical context.”

In recent weeks, Quinn, long an outspoken proponent of gay marriage, has sought to portray her candidacy as an historic opportunity for New York women.

This week, the Quinn campaign rolled out endorsements from the National Organization of Women and feminist political activist Gloria Steinem.

At the annual Gay Pride parade in Greenwich Village, Quinn marched alongside Edie Windsor, the New Yorker whose U.S. Supreme Court case paved the way for gay couples to receive federal benefits this year, leading more than 1,000 backers.

Quinn’s campaign said it planned targeted advertisements on Facebook asking women to “Make history with Chris Quinn,” and targeting women voters through house parties and phone banks.

Mike Morey, Quinn’s spokesman, noted that she had fought to save education jobs, keep firehouses open and expand access to pre-kindergarten during difficult fiscal times.

“She will continue making the case through Election Day that she is the only candidate who has a real record of results delivering for the middle class,” Morey said.

Back at the Cubbyhole, as a performer clad in black leather shorts and a red wig danced in the background, Jaimie Ho, 35, a structural engineer, said she was not sold on Quinn.

Ho remembered seeing Quinn at the pride parade: “She didn’t seem accessible. She had a ton of body guards around her.”

“I like her background. I like the work she has done in the City Council,” continued Ho. “But I ask myself: Is it fair to vote for her simply because she is gay? There needs to be more substance.”

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