Canadian Women's Soccer Players May Face FIFA Discipline For Claiming Yesterday's Semifinal Was Rigged [London Olympics]

Aug 7, 2012 3:15 PM  

Members of the Canadian women's national soccer team are under fire for comments they made after yesterday's thriller of a match won by the U.S. with seconds to spare.

FIFA says it plans to investigate the comments, referring most likely to team captain Christine Sinclair who said after the match, "We feel like we didn't lose. We feel like it was taken from us [...] It's a shame in a game like that, which is so important, that the ref decided the result before the game started."

The match featured several controversial calls, including a six-second call on Canada's goalkeeper and a handball that provided Team USA the equalizing penalty shot.

While the Canadian Soccer Federation says they don't expect Sinclair or any other players to be suspended for Canada's bronze medal match, future suspensions could be possible.

[Toronto Sun]

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This Italian Fencer's Celebration After Winning A Semifinal Is Fantastic [Video]

Jul 29, 2012 5:45 PM  

Diego Occhiuzzi's chances at a sabre medal in London were slim—the Italian fencer came into the competition as a 14 seed. So we don't blame him for this awesome freakout after his semifinal win over Romanian Rares Dumitrescu. In a bracketed event, after all, winning a semi is the only way to guarantee a medal (though some sports take the pandy-bandy safe way and give out two bronzes).

While Occhiuzzi actually went on to lose the gold medal match to fifth-seeded Hungarian Aron Szilagyi, we're going to remember his celebration for a long time. The most amusing part, we think, is the security guard trying to keep him from scaling the wall that separates the piste area from the spectators as Occhiuzzi sought the embrace of his significant other. (Note the other security guard trying to stop the first security guard.)

We cut a bunch of his celebration out. You can watch the whole thing here.

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