Continuing the upsets in Torino.
Maria Rooth of team Sweden celebrates after scoring her shoot-out goal that beat the US.
Yikes! Didn’t expect this. The US Women’s team lost to Sweden today in the semi-finals. This puts them in the bronze medal game. They obviously expected to play in the gold medal game against Canada. (Canada plays Finland in the other semi later this afternoon.) You can read the RECAP from Yahoo’s coverage.
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The Olympic hockey tournament is getting very interesting. After the US tied with Latvia, and Slovakia upset Russia, we had Russia beating up on Sweden (5-0, wow!) and Switzerland upsetting the Czech Republic. Switzerland?! It is going to make the next three rounds very interesting.
With Russia beating Sweden, it gave the US a reprieve. Both Russia and Sweden now have a loss, while the US can brag that they are undefeated of a sort. Of course they are still behind the surprising Slovaks who are the only team in the group with two wins.
In the other group, Canada is no surprise at the top with two wins, and have Finland as mates. The Czech Republic could turn things around, but without Hasek (who was injured in the first...
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