Not quite, Keef! Jarome Iginla, the captain of the Calgary Flames, and the first black captain of an NHL team, won a gold medal as a member of the 2002 Canadian hockey team at that Olympics. (On that team Canada also had Paul Kariya, the first Asian to win a winter gold in hockey).
Oh, pish-tosh, it was a tie. Iginla had to play six (or seven) games spread out over two weeks. One logical way to look at it would be that, having won the gold medal, the time of his first game would count as the time. They both won, and I think it’s appropriate that both sexes were represented. BTW, the silver-medal Cdn women’s bobsled team has a black, dreadlocked member. Seeing her up on the medal podium with all the Nordic blondes was pretty cool.
And may I just say how much I have enjoyed your work over the years, Keef. Every artist brings a unique sensibility, a unique set of filters to the panoply of life, and I appreciate and feel in sync with your take on things, from joy to outrage. Keep plugging away, and I hope you can replace the lost income from Salon (the idiots).
And when I think of it, Iginla might deserve his own cartoon, the first black captain of an NHL team. It was good that Willy O’Ree, the first black player in the NHL, lived to see it, as he was the subject of much racial abuse when played (in Boston, of all places).
And there’s also Grant Fuhr the first black hockey superstar, back in 1983 or so, when he began to backstop the Edmonton Oilers to their Stanley Cups.
I checked out your all-star all-black team and can’t disagree with any of them. And I agree that people need to see (and hear) a live hockey game to appreciate how exciting it is. I mean, there are 220-lb guys bashing each other into the boards at 25mph while waving clubs and chasing a 3-inch disk. Did you ever try to watch hockey on TV when Fox put a transponder in the puck so that it would leave a coloured trail on the screen! Quel horreur!
And I apologize for my Canadian team just barely beating the Americans for the gold medal. I got really angry when my team decided to turn turtle and protect their lead in the last ten minutes of the 3rd period — something which ALWAYS lead to the other team scoring. And if any American had scored in the overtime, it would have been the appropriate result.
And congrats to the American Olympic team for winning more medals than any country ever competing in the Olympic Games.
Not quite, Keef! Jarome Iginla, the captain of the Calgary Flames, and the first black captain of an NHL team, won a gold medal as a member of the 2002 Canadian hockey team at that Olympics. (On that team Canada also had Paul Kariya, the first Asian to win a winter gold in hockey).
Hair head,
The 2-woman Bobsled finals came before the Gold medal game, so technically, she won hers first.
Oh, pish-tosh, it was a tie. Iginla had to play six (or seven) games spread out over two weeks. One logical way to look at it would be that, having won the gold medal, the time of his first game would count as the time. They both won, and I think it’s appropriate that both sexes were represented. BTW, the silver-medal Cdn women’s bobsled team has a black, dreadlocked member. Seeing her up on the medal podium with all the Nordic blondes was pretty cool.
And may I just say how much I have enjoyed your work over the years, Keef. Every artist brings a unique sensibility, a unique set of filters to the panoply of life, and I appreciate and feel in sync with your take on things, from joy to outrage. Keep plugging away, and I hope you can replace the lost income from Salon (the idiots).
And when I think of it, Iginla might deserve his own cartoon, the first black captain of an NHL team. It was good that Willy O’Ree, the first black player in the NHL, lived to see it, as he was the subject of much racial abuse when played (in Boston, of all places).
And there’s also Grant Fuhr the first black hockey superstar, back in 1983 or so, when he began to backstop the Edmonton Oilers to their Stanley Cups.
What?!! Flowers had the Gold around her neck before Iginla even played in the semi-finals! It was not a tie!!
And if you use pish-tosh on my site again, you’ll be banned!!
By the way, Iginla, O’Ree, Fuhr and Georges Laraque are on my all-time black hockey team featured in my biographical strip on O’Ree.
https://kchronicles.com/2008/01/16/nhl/
I checked out your all-star all-black team and can’t disagree with any of them. And I agree that people need to see (and hear) a live hockey game to appreciate how exciting it is. I mean, there are 220-lb guys bashing each other into the boards at 25mph while waving clubs and chasing a 3-inch disk. Did you ever try to watch hockey on TV when Fox put a transponder in the puck so that it would leave a coloured trail on the screen! Quel horreur!
And I apologize for my Canadian team just barely beating the Americans for the gold medal. I got really angry when my team decided to turn turtle and protect their lead in the last ten minutes of the 3rd period — something which ALWAYS lead to the other team scoring. And if any American had scored in the overtime, it would have been the appropriate result.
And congrats to the American Olympic team for winning more medals than any country ever competing in the Olympic Games.
There is only one way to settle this….Dance Fight!
Vonetta Flowers is still a HERO here back in BAMA!!!
go get ’em tiger