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Old Fri Jul 08, 2005, 12:01pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally posted by John Robertson
Just watch: If Canada and the United States continue to thoroughly dominate women's ice hockey, the IOC will consider dropping that sport too.
What I find interesting is that the committee, under secret ballot, dropped the two sports, but couldn't bring themselves together to add one.

To me, that says the purpose of the vote was to drop these two sports, not to adjust the field.

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