Were the canadian women robbed of their gold medal opportunity by the penalty kick call?
assuming the pk was the wrong call the canadian women in the london 2012 olympic soccer semifinals were robbed of their opportunity to play for the gold medal.
was it the wrong call?
yes
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no
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I understand the sentiment. Really. But the question almost makes it sound like they was some sort of conspiracy going on. The ref certainly had no reason to biased it's call wasn't technically wrong. It was a bit nit-picky, but this isn't your high school soccer match. It's the Olympics, it's the gold medal. The stakes are high. Side: no
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the ref certainly did have a reason to bias a call. Its called viewership of team USA in the final. I certainly don't believe the game was flat out RIGGED but a few calls here and there to give USA the advantage is something that easily could have been pulled off. And even in your argument you write the stakes are high. Is the six second goalie possession call ever made without a warning in a high stakes game? and then the penalty was a weak call given the circumstances. Im assuming your a soccer fan for having the union jack as your avatar (sue me for stereotyping) and any soccer fan would agree that two weak calls leading to a late game tying goal is unacceptable. what I'm trying to get at conspiracy or not, the canadians did not deserve those two poor calls, and many (at least here in canada) would agree it cost us the game. Side: yes
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If you would have asked: "Did the Norwegian ref make a shitty call?" I would definitely agree with that. But the whole pretext of "Canadian women robbed" makes it sound like the ref and bunch of network executives were smoking cigars together and saying "this is how it's gonna be boys. We like USA and got steer this game in their favor." And I just don't buy that. Could the outcome been different and those calls weren't made? Absolutely! But does that put the game back in the Canadians favor? I think that's just life. Every sports team has been the beneficiary of a bad call at some point. You learn from it; you move forward. Side: no
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