The Americans, reigning Olympic champions, will meet their great Canadian rivals on Thursday (kick-off at 5:10 a.m. French time) in the final of the Beijing Games ice hockey tournament, after beating Finland (4-1) in the semi-finals on Monday. -final.
It will be the sixth time in seven editions that the two teams will meet in the Olympic final, since the women’s ice hockey tournament appeared on the program of the Winter Games in 1998. The Canadians have won three of the first five finals between both teams, but the Americans won the last in 2018 in Pyeonchang. In the preliminary round, the two teams have already met and Canada won 4-2.
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Quadruple Olympic champions (2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014), the Canadians will play their seventh Olympic final in seven appearances on Thursday, after crushing Switzerland (10-3). They folded the match by scoring five goals in the first ten minutes.
Faced with rough Finns, the Americans had to wait four minutes after the start of the second period to open the scoring through Cayla Barnes. The match for third place between Switzerland and Finland will take place on Wednesday (12:30 p.m.).
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