TOI Correspondent from Washington: Partisan cricket fans in India and Pakistan, please stand back for the pathology of American and Canadian fans in ice hockey.
Benign neighbors who had recently broken up, ties between the two familial countries have recently reached a standstill, with acrimony threatening to perish on the ice.
Fans have booed each other’s national anthems before the game, there have been fights in the market, and even the nations ‘ officials have trolled and made fun of one another on social media.
On Thursday, Canada won the FourNations medal defeating the US 3-2 in extra-time in Boston, and avenging a party level defeat in Toronto that had American viewers gloating.
Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, should clap up on social media.
” You doesn’t take our country — and you can’t get our game”, he posted on X, referring to Trump’s offer– or threat– to create Canada the 51st US state. Trump has also used the term” Governor Trudeau” to refer to the Canadian prime minister.
After their party period victory, Trudeau’s rejoinder came after three days of American comments in a sport that saw three brawls between gamers in the first nine seconds.
Tension– yet greater than of the kind that characterizes India-Pakistan baseball games– ran high back of Thursday night’s face-off. A French lover at the Boston sport help up a sign that read” Pleasant to the USA, Canada’s 11th state”.
Trump called the US team to which them success, saying,” You really are a qualified group of people…. We love you men. We’ll get watching now. Bring it home”.
Yet the White House joined in the teasing, with Trump’s director Karoline Leavitt saying,” We look forward to the US beating our soon-to-be 51st position, Canada”.
They don’t. In the final seconds, when the USA had a 2-1 lead going into the final minutes, Canada equalized and won the game by 3-2 in sudden death extra-time, igniting the nation’s pride, which was only made worse by American singer Chantal Kreviazuk’s change of the song’s poetry in a censure to Trump’s expansionism.
She later stated that she did it because she believed in politics and that a free society shouldn’t have to be defending itself from fascism and tyranny.
Trump’s Do fans were obstinate in their teasing. “500 % levies, and we’re going to get your land by force”, read one article.
