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Allowing professionals evens out the playing field, particularly
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in basketball.  Read up and learn a little history of Olympic basketball, and you'll (maybe) understand.  Besides, nowadays they are ALL professionals.  You don't think Sean White earns money from doing the halfpipe?

But these professional hockey players aren't playing for money or their professional teams.  Indeed, they're playing for their COUNTRIES.  That's the difference.  Can you even remotely remember a hockey game as exciting as the one in 1980 when the US beat the USSR?

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nobody watches it anymore.  Well, once again you contradict yourself.  Looks like you ARE watching the Olympics, along with millions of other people.  Make up your feeble mind liorr, are the Olympics boring, or do you in fact enjoy watching it?

really what is so exciting about hockey if all players are from NHL.

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in basketball.  Read up and learn a little history of Olympic basketball, and you'll (maybe) understand.  Besides, nowadays they are ALL professionals.  You don't think Sean White earns money from doing the halfpipe?

But these professional hockey players aren't playing for money or their professional teams.  Indeed, they're playing for their COUNTRIES.  That's the difference.  Can you even remotely remember a hockey game as exciting as the one in 1980 when the US beat the USSR?

Who made point ME I was in Vermont with family beautiful house we saw game on abc with rabit ears anttenna who knew back then how huge that upset was best. vacation in my whole life

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