2002 Winter Olympics Hockey

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2002 winter olympics hockey. 2002 olympics ice hockey games were held at the e center and peaks ice arena in salt lake city and provo utah. Ice hockey at the 2002 winter olympics was held at the e center in west valley city and peaks ice arena in provo utah. The ioc also banned team doctor evgeni lositski from the 2004 summer olympics and the 2006 winter olympics for advising pankov to take medication that contained the banned substance. Ice hockey at the 2002 winter olympics mens tournament from wikipedia the free encyclopedia the mens tournament marked the second olympic games where the national hockey league took a break 12 days from february 14 to february 25 to allow all its players the opportunity to play.

Belarus forward vasily pankov was disqualified retroactively on march 21 2002 by the ioc for testing positive after the bronze medal game for the banned substance 19 norandrosterone. Lighting of the olympic flame by. All the best photo and video highlights of ice hockey at the salt lake city 2002 winter games olympics plus official results and medals by event and athlete. Bush opened the 2002 winter olympics which took place five months after the september 11 attacks with.

Official opening of the games by. Climax of the opening ceremony. On behalf of a proud determined and grateful nation then the standard opening formula followed. Salt lake city 8 february 2002.

The opening ceremony of the 2002 winter olympics took place at the rice eccles olympic stadium in salt lake city utah on 8 february 2002us. The mens and womens tournaments were won by canada who defeated the host united states in both finals. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. China and australia won their first gold medal in olympic winter games.

The american ice hockey team gold medal winners in lake placid 1980. Fourteen countries played in the tournament. Both the mens and womens tournaments were won by canada defeating the host united states in both finals. Round robin pools followed by classification rounds and single elimination matches.