Canadian Hockey Celebration: Beer, Champagne & Cigars On The Ice! (PHOTOS)

The Canadian women's hockey team is in hot water for their celebration after beating the U.S. in Thursday's gold-medal game. After the game, players openly drank and smoked on the court -- and now the International Olympic Committee is investigating. The AP has more:

Gilbert Felli, the IOC's executive director of the Olympic Games, says he was unaware of the incidents until informed by an Associated Press reporter. He says drinking in public by athletes at an Olympic venue is "not what we want to see" and not a good image for sports values. Felli says the IOC will talk to the international hockey federation and Canadian Olympic Committee and then "act accordingly."

Scroll down for photos of the celebration: innocent fun, or over the line?

UPDATE: Hockey Canada issued an apologetic statement:

"The members of Team Canada apologize if their on-ice celebrations, after fans had left the building, have offended anyone. In the excitement of the moment, the celebration left the confines of our dressing room and shouldn't have. The team regrets that its gold medal celebration may have caused the IOC or COC any embarrassment. Our players and team vow to uphold the values of the Olympics moving forward and view this situation as a learning experience."

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[Harrier]

12:32 AM on 03/03/2010

Regardless of what the committee may want, they won the game and they are all at home. Amazing the Mens and Women won it all. No committee will want to see that fall apart.

[ECB]

08:08 PM on 03/02/2010

Big deal. Leave them alone !

[youngblood]

05:43 PM on 03/02/2010

This is just too gay...not that theirs anything wrong with it!

[Jennifer Smith 1]

01:40 PM on 03/02/2010

who cares

[cookerman45]

08:20 PM on 03/01/2010

its canadian birth control....leave em alone.

[Unrepentantliberal]

08:07 PM on 03/01/2010

How can people judge and criticize these great ladies athletes after sitting through how many thousands of hours of beer commercials? At least they weren't celebrating on center ice with a bong and a crack pipe.

[sloreader]

05:32 PM on 03/01/2010

Come on people... this is the first time I can remember saying this but let's face it and move on, Girls will be Girls! Except for that part about drinking beer & champagne while lying on their backs, they should know they could drown themselves.

[Lex10]

03:22 PM on 03/01/2010

I'm cool with them owning the ice after they owned the ice.

[dizmo4]

12:19 PM on 03/01/2010

The last time I checked it was perfectly legal to drink. Virtually every piece of media equates drinking with celebration. Look at the numerous beer commercials or Smirnoff "Be there" commercials. They're all about partying and celebrating. So these women win a gold medal and go to celebrate by doing something that is perfectly legal and that society says is the norm and the IOC wants to have these women punished? Really?

[azcraig]

09:05 AM on 03/01/2010

Our players and team vow to uphold the values of the Olympics ??
Just like the IOC did with their sex scandal. You want role models be one.

[daisydukes]

03:25 AM on 03/01/2010

When will people realize that once they are in the public eye, their behaviours become magnified. There is nothing wrong with the way they celebrated but only in their locker room, not like that in a public place (whether there were people present or not, it is still a public place). How many of us are working with young 13 year olds with significant addiction issues that started out exactly like that. Like it or not, these are role models that youths are looking up to. Oh man, dare I mention making a mockery of the focus on health and wellness of an olympic athlete. As an athlete myself, I would not want to be part of that going on on that ice. Now they will be remembered for that story instead of their gold medal.

[CmdrTomalak]

05:32 AM on 03/01/2010

Everyone's a role model to someone whether or not they're in the public eye. You yourself are a role model. So am I. So is your dentist. Do you hold yourself and everyone to such high standards? I'm not just talking about celebrating on the ice; I'm talking everywhere. If you say, you do, I seriously doubt it.

Besides, what they're doing here is harmless. Come back and say "I told you so" when they're all in rehab.

As for how they're remembered? Let me be the first to say that I'm immensely proud to remember them this way. They're keeping it real; not faking it for the cameras. It's a candid private moment that never should have been publicized.

You know being judgemental isn't something I want my daughter to see. I consider that much more important than this.

[dizmo4]

12:24 PM on 03/01/2010

Seeing a bunch of 20-something hockey players drink isn't going to affect the 13 year olds with addiction issues. Society teaches us that drinking is the preferred method of celebration. Look at all the beer commercials. Look at the way alcohol consumption is portrayed in movies and television. That has a much larger impact on the 13 year olds than this does.

Secondly, the last time I checked drinking is perfectly legal. There's nothing about what they're doing that is illegal or wrong. Are they role models? perhaps, but they're also human. This idea that if you're at all in the public spotlight you have to be perfect is ludicrous. People are who they are and trying to conform to something you're not causes a hell of a lot more issues for those 13 year olds than seeing people celebrate with alcohol.

[viewfromuphere]

11:53 AM on 02/28/2010

this is a made up controversy if I ever saw one..

televised locker room interviews have involved alcohol and champions celebrating....usually loudly. And since they are interviews I would imagine the athletes doing the drinking and celebrating are aware the cameras are present. These interviews are not shown late enough to ensure the kiddies...who maybe aspire to be basketball or football or baseball players..are in bed. There right after the game.

Unlike this situation where the event was over for well on two hours and no one was being interviewed, no spectator was in the building and no kiddie would have been "tainted" is someone hadn't published all their pictures and tattled to the IOC.

The American girls played a great game, won silver, or lost gold depending on one's POV, looked very teary and sour pussed on the podium. Understandable but does not make for good pictures and could have become a story in the hands of some sports writers, but hey...drinkin', smokin' Canadians came along
so ...let's go with that.

even the IOC upon reflection isn't doing more than asking for a letter.

[Alan Ruether]

02:11 PM on 02/28/2010

Wow! Canadian hockey players drinking beer and smoking on the ice after winning a game! What is this world coming to! This is very uncharacteristic for Canadian hockey players. :o)

[viewfromuphere]

02:33 PM on 02/28/2010

yeh, I know....it usually it's tea at high noon with pinky finger extended..

[Badger84]

04:40 AM on 03/01/2010

You're right. They aren't hurting anyone and have earned the right to celebrate as they choose. This doesn't happen every day.

[dutchwoman]

02:57 PM on 02/28/2010

Why do I have the feeling if those were guys it would not have been an issue.

[dizzypdx]

09:39 PM on 02/28/2010

Because it wouldn't have been.

[ElaineO]

06:18 PM on 03/02/2010

If it were they guys they would have had the good sense to keep the smoking and drinking in the locker room.

[ZenGardner]

09:21 AM on 02/28/2010

I hope those cigars were Cubans.

[fromdnorth]

08:03 PM on 02/28/2010

Cuban's all we smoke or have our wimmen smoke...

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=57tK6aQS_H0

[CigarGod]

08:04 AM on 02/28/2010

There is always some, little fundamentalist, evangelical snitch around with a camera.

[SaquaroSue]

11:08 AM on 02/28/2010

A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time.
- H. L. Mencken

[Greg Mc]

05:20 AM on 02/28/2010

One day Bill was playing fetch with his dog by the lake. He was amazed when fetching the stick from the lake that the dog could run across the top of the water, hardly getting his feet wet at all. The headlines the next day said "BILLS DOG CAN'T SWIM". . . .This was the press inventing a story to cause controversy.There is definitely a double standard here, Look at all the champagne that went around during football and NHL celebrations. Girls STOP APOLOGIZING!!! You kicked butts the way you trained to do. Now smoke cigars and drink champagne the way CHAMPIONS were meant to. The woman who trims herself to suit everybody will soon whittle herself away to nothing.If you really believe in yourself and what you do then you are fargen bulletproof.