Olympic Hockey Medalist Immediately Yanks off Her Silver Because Only Gold Is Acceptable

The Canadian women’s hockey team just had to settle for silver, but one player couldn’t keep it around her neck.

Team USA defeated its longtime archrival Canada 3-2 in a tension-packed tiebreaker shootout on Thursday. Some Canadian hockey players wept, but the loss was especially crushing for Jocelyne Larocque. After the post-game ceremony, defense powerhouse Larocque could only stand to look at the silver draped around her neck for a few seconds before she yanked it off and held it in her hands.

“It’s just hard,” the 2014 Sochi gold medalist said after the event. “You work so hard. We wanted gold but didn’t get it.”

But Laroque didn’t have much time to grieve for Team Canada’s lost gold. An official from the International Ice Hockey Federation intercepted the defender on her way to the locker room and informed her that she was obligated to wear the medal according to IIHF rules, Canada’s Globe and Mail reported. Asked later if the silver medal, then hanging from her neck, was any consolation, Laroque said said “once we reflect. But now, not at the moment.”


Source: Yahoo News