More than One Country In Ice Hockey in Winter Olympics?

[canucklax]

There are a lot of sports in the Olympics which feature many athletes from the same country including team events, why can't it be the same in Hockey? I could see Canada icing two competitive teams.

[VICanucksfan5551]

Or badminton. Or ice dance. But those are not "large" team sports like volleyball or basketball.

You can only have so many participants in an event. Housing members of those large teams is not cheap. By allowing countries to have more than one large team, that means one less country is participating.

Also, as a fan, why would one support, say, Canada A over Canada B. At least in ice dance, I could explain why I would prefer one Canadian ice dance team over another.

[SukhKular]

To me I don't like the sport of beach volleyball. It's just an informal version of a real sport. That like having ice hockey in the winter Olympics and also having 3 on 3 street hockey. One variation is enough.

[Mr. Ambien]

They could probably have 3 and all place medals.

[SukhKular]

They could start throwing games in the semis like the badminton girls. lol

[canuckster19]

I wouldn't mind seeing something like a skills competition at the Olympics, I mean the summer games has people who can throw different objects the farthest, why not see who has the hardest shot, fastest hockey skater... etc.