Winter Olympics descends into carnage as mass brawl breaks out throughout ice hockey conflict
The Winter Olympics descended into carnage on Sunday afternoon after tensions boiled over during Czechia’s clash with Switzerland
A mass brawl broke out during the clash(Image: TNT SPORTS)
The Winter Olympics descended into carnage on Sunday afternoon after a mass brawl broke out during the ice hockey clash with Switzerland and Czechia.
Swiss defender started the Michael Fora started the chaos when he appeared to take a cheap shot at Czech attacker Lukas Sedlack. And after Sedlack was knocked to the ice, he sprung back up and fired a shot back.
A referee tried to get involved and break the duo apart, but players from either side rushed in as a mass brawl broke out on the Olympic ice. In the chaos, players were pushed against the boards as referees tried to pull players out of the melee.
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Swiss star Pius Suter was also at the centre of the action, and he was pinned against the board by one referee alongside Sedlack. While Fora, stood nearby staring at the Czech attacker.
“Hockey or gladiator arena? either way that’s chaos,” one fan joked. While a second said: “Why are ice hockey players always so violent??”
And another added: “Punching someone wearing a protective helmet while wearing gloves…”
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Switzerland needed overtime to beat the Czech’s, winning 4-3 in their final preliminary game of the tournament, finishing second in Group A behind Canada.
Canada had already clinched a place in the quarter-finals, and they were looking for a massive score line against France later on in the day – with goal difference likely to play a determining factor in the overall seeding of the group stage.
The winners of each of the three preliminary groups and the next best overall team automatically advance to the quarter-finals in Milan. And the remaining teams compete in a single-elimination play-off.
Switzerland will now cross all their fingers and hope they are the best runner-up to make their way into the quarter-finals of the games.
