Hong Kong officials denounce attack on ice hockey players at Asian Winter Games

While I'm far from an ice hockey fan, I'm definitely keen to watch this game! Sounds like a lot of feeling in it. Hope to catch some of the tournament if all the games are as physical!

During the opening ceremonies China Hong Kong, China Macau and China Taipei got the most enthusiastic welcomes next to PR China.

While I'm far from an ice hockey fan, I'm definitely keen to watch this game! Sounds like a lot of feeling in it. Hope to catch some of the tournament if all the games are as physical!

This incident took place after the game during the handshake line, it had nothing to do with ice hockey! One of the Turkmenistan players sucker punched the Hong Kong Player.

@ MarkX - fair enough, that sounds nasty if it was after the final whistle. I'm all for the physical stuff in contact sports, but only during the game.

I don’t think many Asian countries compete in winter sports. I think China will win every event. Also I’ve never heard of Ice hockey being played in Asia. It is usually only played in Canada and a couple of European countries.

@Japantime--ice hockey is played at an amateur level in Japan, culminating in the winter kokutai tournament. The problem for that national tourney is not every prefecture has an ice rink for practices or games, along with recruiting enough skilled players from the north of Japan to make a decent team to represent the prefecture.

I don’t think many Asian countries compete in winter sports. I think China will win every event.

While China is the dominant nation, Japan and South Korea are also very competitive in several winter sports. South Korea currently have 11 Golds (30 total medals) and Japan 4 Golds (17 total). Taiwan has won their first ever Asian Winter Games medal.

So, no - China are actually not winning every event.

@japantime--the joint US-Canada pro ice hockey league is the NHL, but the majority of the teams, or the better funded Stanley Cup winning teams, are based in the US. It features top Canadian, Russian, European, and American players.

*Correction, Chinese Taipei, 中华台北.

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Photos/2022/02/04/opening-ceremony/part-3/2022-02-04-opening-ceremony-73.jpg?im=Resize=(2358,1600),aspect=fill

Taiwan has won their first ever Asian Winter Games medal

Gambare:

While I'm far from an ice hockey fan, I'm definitely keen to watch this game! Sounds like a lot of feeling in it. Hope to catch some of the tournament if all the games are as physical!

Players have been sucker-punched and this is all you can say? Had the victims been Japanese players, you'd be the first to be spitting blood and ranting.

Who'd have guessed...

Don't like a hard, legal tackle in rugby or American Football? A tough body check in ice hockey?

Contact sports arent for everyone - they definitely frighten some.

Tether tennis is more your thing I imagine?

JapantimeToday  09:51 am JST

I don’t think many Asian countries compete in winter sports. I think China will win every event. Also I’ve never heard of Ice hockey being played in Asia. It is usually only played in Canada and a couple of European countries.

You clearly don't know much about hockey. The majority of NHL teams are in the US. A couple of European countries? LOL! Finland, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, etc., all have professional leagues.

Hockey is the only sport that has a mandatory handshake line after playoff or tournament games. In over 100 yrs of the NHL, there has never been a fight during the handshake line.

If the news is coming out of china, then take it with a pinch of salt....especially if the video footages have been edited by the communist china-nese.

What exactly did the Hong Kong team say or do to provoke the Turkmen? Esp, behind closed doors or in locker rooms? I don't think Turkmen are the type who will just attack someone out of no reason.

As a kid I was amazed by the wonderful sport of ice hockey. The Montreal Canadiens with Guy LaFleur were just awesome to watch. The best hockey and truly all sport without the ugliness of today's standards. I wish the rules would make players stick to technique and ability rather than primitive body blows and fighting.

I went to a hockey game and a soccer match broke out.

iknowallToday  09:30 pm JST

I went to a hockey game and a soccer match broke out.

Soccer players take themselves out of the game when they break a nail.

Seems like more boxing and WWE fans here wishing to turn ice hockey into a farce. Real athletes are masters of their sport. Athletes who resort to fighting during or after any game are just not respectable athletes. There are other words to describe their behavior and they aren't positive ones. I feel like a few too many American fans prefer fights to break out in any and all sports as a kind of entertainment rather than enjoy the true sport.

Oh and, this mentality seems to have seeped into our politics. Very, very unfortunately.

The thumbs down crowd here proves my point, btw (-_^)