Canadian womens ice hockey team apologise for beer and cigars on ice

By Nick Allen in Los Angeles Published: 5:45PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

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Previous of Images Next Canada"s Meghan Agosta and Jayna Hefford, right, applaud with cigars after Canada kick USA 2-0 Photo: AP Haley Irwin was graphic pouring champagne in to the mouth of team-mate Tessa Bonhomme Photo: AP Others lay spread out out on the ice jubilee from champagne bottles and drink cans Photo: EPA

Victorious players emerged from the sauce room, still in their uniforms and with bullion medals unresolved from their necks, some-more than half an hour after violence the United States 2-0.

During their unpretentious jubilee on the Vancouver ice course Haley Irwin was graphic pouring champagne in to the mouth of team-mate Tessa Bonhomme, whilst an additional player attempted to expostulate the ice-resurfacing appurtenance and honked the horn.

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Others lay spread out out on the ice jubilee from champagne bottles and drink cans.

Marie-Philip Poulin, 18, who scored both goals, is still underneath the authorised jubilee age of nineteen in Vancouver but was graphic on the ice with a drink in her hand. The jubilee age in Alberta, where the Canadian group trains, is 18.

Supporters pronounced the events were simply a normal ice hockey jubilee following what was a rarely romantic impulse for Canada as it hosts the Winter Olympics.

But Gilbert Felli, IOC senior manager executive of the Olympic games, said: "It is not what we wish to see. I don"t think it"s a great graduation of competition values.

"If they applaud in the becoming different room, that"s one thing, but not in public. We will examine what happened."

In a matter Hockey Canada pronounced the group regretted "any embarrassment" the jubilee might have caused.

It said: "The members of Team Canada apologize if their on-ice celebrations, after fans had left the building, have annoyed anyone.

"In the fad of the impulse the jubilee left the proportions of the sauce room and shouldn"t have." The alcohol-fuelled jubilee is believed to have happened after the players were asked to go behind onto the ice to have their photographs taken.

Steve Keough, a orator for the Canadian Olympic Committee, said: "In conditions of the tangible celebration, it"s not just something odd in Canada. It was not the goal to go opposite any Olympic protocols."