Feb 10, 2018; Gangneung, South Korea; South Korea president Jae-in Moon; IOC president Thomas Bach; North Korea nominal head of state Kim Long Nam; and Kimm Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pose for a picture with the women's hockey team from Korea after women's ice hockey Group B play against Switzerland in the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games at Kwandong Hockey Centre. Mandatory Credit: Andrew Nelles-USA TODAY Sports
Reuters: Exclusive: U.S. IOC member suggests joint Korean team for Nobel Peace Prize
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - A senior American member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) called on Sunday for North and South Korea’s joint women’s ice hockey team to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Angela Ruggiero, a four-times ice hockey world champion and Olympic gold medalist, told Reuters she would ask others to nominate the team, which included 12 players from North Korea which is still technically at war with the South.
It was the first time an inter-Korean team had competed at an Olympic Games.
“I would love the team to get the Nobel Peace Prize,” Ruggiero, a member of the IOC’s executive board said a day after the unified Korean team competed at the Pyeongchang Olympics.
“Seriously, the team. Something that is recognizing the sacrifice they made to adjusting their competitions,” she said.
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These nobel peace prices for people who haven't fought their entire life for peace are really getting stupid and inflationary. For example, to get a nobel price in chemistry usually takes years if not decades of hard work (and luck)... how come the Standard for the nobel peace price dropped so low? It started with Obama - even he didn't know why he got it (as he joked about it in an interview )...but now a hockey team? What? How about the reporters who die in streets showing us what war is like? How about peace activists being imprisoned and tortured in China? Wtf is the Nobel peace price committee thinking?
Anon,
This is what I meant about NK getting medals. It's typical, give each other medals so you can lecture others about morality. If you are challenged just point to the medal for evidence of your "obvious virtue" that you have deigned to share with us.
Haha, this has to be a sick joke. Making Kim the peace-loving dictator and Trump the crazy warmonger..
As regards Obama, at the time I thought they were trying to bribe him into being a peacenik. I have a feeling they won't do that again.
At this point the Korean hockey team gives the appearance of promoting peace. I wonder if in the locker room they are allowed to talk to each other.
Personally I believe hockey contributed the break-up of the Soviet Union. The players got to see the wonder of capitalism in terms of products available and in economies that made it possible for the people to be able to buy the stuff. They certainly would have taken that news back home.
A woman I worked with told me of a Russian architect who had designed what was then Russia's largest mall. When he came to Toronto he was blown away by the Eaton's Centre. Not so much the building but all the stuff for sale.
Another friend went over to Europe in the early 1960s for hockey tournaments. The team shipped all the hockey gear but the players carried those big sports duffle bags with them. The bags were filled with blue jeans to sell, over there.
It would be nice if the Korean hockey team merger actually started the ball rolling towards, if not reunification, which I think is unlikely, but a peaceful existence.
I imagine such a concept would be opposed by a certain warring nation that has invested so much of it's resources in the possibility of war.
The "warring nation" in this situation is South Korea. They have used and abused America as their pawn in their battle against the North for decades. This wholesale abuse of America by South Korea MUST end and it must END now!!
Should the South Korean hockey team get a nobel peace prize? First of all this is WAY to early to even be thinking on these lines. Secondly to field a joint hockey team and I'm assuming there are limits on numbers of players and there's obviously limits on playing time. What this means is that players on both teams. This means there are people on both sides who have been denied a lifelong dream that they worked VERY hard for. For those on the team or playing in this manner, this would, likely be an extreme insult.
I know how I felt when I learned that the Russians were banned from the olympics for essentially what EVERYONE does. I want the best competition possible. We Americans are the kings and queens of cheating at these things. The Russians aren't even in kindergarten compared to us. What led to such nonsense? I think South Korea wants war with North Korea. What better way to achieve tnis than to p!ss off one of North Korea's allies!! The 28,000 or so American forces they will take command of will be. cannon fodder for them. I think they think they are going to win and as a side show would love to see our people slaughtered.
Who does deserve a Nobel prize? Getting Russia and China to agree in principle to sanctions is HUGE!! They've essentially agreed to sanction one of their best friends. How was this done? What did we have to give up?
Candidate Trump named South Korea and Japan by name. Perhaps this was a que to South Korea that maybe, just maybe we Americans will NOT BE YOUR B!TCH BOYS ANY LONGER AS WE HAVE BEEN FOR MANY LONG DECADES!!
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