Helene Elliott: Russian hockey players won gold but weren't finished … they still had an anthem to sing
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Feb 25, 2018
3 minutes
Sweaty and spent, members of the team with the awkward name Olympic Athletes From Russia gathered to finish their mission.
Dazzling young forward Kirill Kaprizov's power-play goal nine minutes and 40 seconds into sudden-death play had given them a 4-3 victory over upstart Germany and had transformed them into Olympic hockey champions for the first time since they were known as the Unified team in 1992, but there was a job still to be done, a promise to
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