Beery gold-medal celebration could get Canada's women's team in trouble

Beery gold-medal celebration could get Canada’s women’s team in trouble

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Feb. 25, 2010 10:14 PM PT

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After Canada’s women’s hockey team defeated the U.S., 2-0, to win the gold medal Thursday at Canada Hockey Place, they decided to do some celebrating.

More than half an hour after they clinched their third consecutive Olympic title, they came back onto the ice. Beer was involved in their festivities.

The International Olympic Committee plans to investigate the matter and whether the players’ celebration outside the locker room is harmful to their image and the game’s.

More photos of the festivities after the jump...

-- Helene Elliott in Vancouver

Photos by Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.