Best Hockey goal ever. FINLAND FTW

Lemme see if I got this right.
You're saying:
-World cup is better than Olympics to determine athletic superiority
--Because competitors have a more stable system of checks and balances to compare themselves to against their opponents and their past performances.
-World cup / other such events > Olympics because the awards are more heavily weighted

Am I right, or are there any errors? Won't say anything more til I am sure I am on the same level.

In the sports I mentioned and a couple more, sure, you got it right.

K, good.

Then explain to me how the Olympics aren't better when, basically, all they are are a collection of those same exact events, only instead of intranational competitors, there's international competitors?

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While I agree with Rob that there are other tournaments more important than the Olympics in soccer, boxing, tennis, etc. I think hockey doesn't fall under that.

Hockey is ALL ABOUT the Olympics. Kids don't grow up dreaming of scoring the winning goal in the World Championships. They grow up dreaming of scoring the Stanley Cup winner or the Olympic winner.

Guys like Ovechkin and Malkin have said that even if the NHL does not participate in the 2014 Sochi games, they will go anyways. I wouldn't see them skipping the Stanley Cup playoffs to go to these World Championships.

Fact is, Olympic hockey has been engrained into hockey culture, and after the Stanley Cup, it is the second most prestigious award in the sport (to some even more important than the Cup). The point is, we don't have any international tournament that's big like the Super Bowl, or the World Cup, or the Grand Slams in Tennis. All we have are the Olympics and the Stanley Cup, so it is an unfair comparison to make to those sports. However, for sports such as diving, or skiing, or track and field events, where they do not have a separate ultimate prize (least not to my knowledge), the Olympics hold a certain prestige and honor to them.

I don't find any entertainment watching sports, I find it a more barbaric version of something like dungeons and dragons.

While I agree with Rob that there are other tournaments more important than the Olympics in soccer, boxing, tennis, etc. I think hockey doesn't fall under that.

Hockey is ALL ABOUT the Olympics. Kids don't grow up dreaming of scoring the winning goal in the World Championships. They grow up dreaming of scoring the Stanley Cup winner or the Olympic winner.

Guys like Ovechkin and Malkin have said that even if the NHL does not participate in the 2014 Sochi games, they will go anyways. I wouldn't see them skipping the Stanley Cup playoffs to go to these World Championships.

Fact is, Olympic hockey has been engrained into hockey culture, and after the Stanley Cup, it is the second most prestigious award in the sport (to some even more important than the Cup). The point is, we don't have any international tournament that's big like the Super Bowl, or the World Cup, or the Grand Slams in Tennis. All we have are the Olympics and the Stanley Cup, so it is an unfair comparison to make to those sports. However, for sports such as diving, or skiing, or track and field events, where they do not have a separate ultimate prize (least not to my knowledge), the Olympics hold a certain prestige and honor to them.

Rob's right.
Certain sports fall under the category World Championship > Olympics. He didn't say all of them, he meant some of them.

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1:17 LOL

That was a nice goal.Each match must have such a goals.
What do you think dears if rabbits play ice hockey.Can you imagine this ?