Thus Endeth Another Winter Olympics

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In closing, I wonder what American sports journalist will write the sour grapes article decrying the Finnish and Swedish Ice Hockey teams, with the tired American complaint that the European or Scandanavian champions are somehow lesser athletic mortals than, for example, the last Olympic Basketball champions: Argentina.  ;)  The gang-of-soloists American Basketball Team, per the comments in a Spazbear's thread regarding US and Canadian Olympic Hockey, failed to do what successful national teams do: focus on We, instead of on Me, when preparing for the battles of Olympic faux war. 

I thought the US and Canada lost because their players were old and Olympic rinks are larger (NHL rinks being smaller to sustain longer player careers).