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Errorist76 on 23 February 2018

BTW 2017 over 8000 new Syrians and Afghanis newly registered at the DFB :)



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Errorist76 on 23 February 2018
HomokHarcos said:
VGPolyglot said:

7,000,000 players? The vast majority of them have got to be amateurs, right?

It's the country with the most registered players.

Didn’t even know that...haha. Although I assume a number of them are just professional couch players ;)

How big is Ice Hockey in Canada? It’s your national sport, right?



HomokHarcos on 23 February 2018
Errorist76 said:
HomokHarcos said:

It's the country with the most registered players.

Didn’t even know that...haha. Although I assume a number of them are just professional couch players ;)

How big is Ice Hockey in Canada? It’s your national sport, right?

Yeah, a few million more than anybody else. (However that's the amount of people playing for organized clubs, other countries might have more if you count people just playing on the street.)

2% of Canadians are registered players. But with how expensive equipment can be many people just play road hockey. As a spectator sport it's very popular. Half of Canada watched the gold medal game in 2010. The NHL is also the most popular sports league in Canada with the Stanley Cup Finals receiving high ratings.



Farsala on 23 February 2018

I think the big issue is that it is in Korea. If it was in Canada again during the hockey season, I am sure they would join.

Still Germany typically does really well in the winter olympics regardless, so it isn't too big of a surprise.



Errorist76 on 23 February 2018
Farsala said:
I think the big issue is that it is in Korea. If it was in Canada again during the hockey season, I am sure they would join.

Still Germany typically does really well in the winter olympics regardless, so it isn't too big of a surprise.

Last time they got a medal was 1976....my year of birth. 



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Farsala on 23 February 2018
Errorist76 said:
Farsala said:
I think the big issue is that it is in Korea. If it was in Canada again during the hockey season, I am sure they would join.

Still Germany typically does really well in the winter olympics regardless, so it isn't too big of a surprise.

Last time they got a medal was 1976....my year of birth. 

While true, if the competition is fierce it doesn't necessarily mean they are bad. It's hard enough to qualify as is.



Teeqoz on 23 February 2018
Ka-pi96 said:
pastro243 said:

I guess you are referring to the players part, since no other event is bigger than the football WC and no other sports WC is bigger than the olympics 

The Olympics as a whole, sure. But a whole load of sports World Cup's are bigger than their Olympic event.

Well yeah, during their own WCs they generally don't have to compete with huge international events from basically every other winter sport.



COKTOE on 24 February 2018

Wish I would have seen this yesterday when the thread was active, but I found this kinda funny/odd: 

Germany issues ‘travel advisory’ after beating Canada in 2018 Winter Olympics hockey


https://globalnews.ca/news/4045215/germany-travel-advisory-canada-hockey-2018-winter-olympics/

 

Sorry about the ginormous text. Ha.



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Teeqoz on 24 February 2018

They better not win the finals because I want that first place in the medal table.



Teeqoz on 24 February 2018
COKTOE said:

Wish I would have seen this yesterday when the thread was active, but I found this kinda funny/odd: 

Germany issues ‘travel advisory’ after beating Canada in 2018 Winter Olympics hockey


https://globalnews.ca/news/4045215/germany-travel-advisory-canada-hockey-2018-winter-olympics/

 

Sorry about the ginormous text. Ha.

Why does the german foreign office write soccer instead of football? :-|