Well, this is how the championships ended for finland. So incredibly sad that after having lost the first final, managed to win the second with 4-1 and then loose in Sudden death. It was so that one physically could feel the disappointment from the finnish supporters.
The Tchechs is rushing in on the ice to salubrate the fact that they once again are world champions in Ice hockey.
A happy tchechish team is being photographed as is practice when having taken the gold.
And after the medals have been given to the players they do the "Honour turn" around the hall. Can tell that the cheer from the Tchech fans were unbelivable.
And then it was time for the national anthem to be played. The Tchech players are singing like never before.
The two teams are thanking eachother for a good game and championship.
The World Champions in Ice hockey in 1999 is coming out from the hall during an enourmous cheer from their fellow countrymen. Due to this the World Championships in Ice hockey had come to an end and it was just for Gab to start planning the trip back home to Sweden and start to plan for the next great Hockey-trip. The World championships in St. Petersburg in 2000.
Svea Svin ranks The championships in 1999
Motivation: The world Championships in Norway was something that we had really been looking froward to for a long while. We had since earlier experienced the championships in Sweden (1995) and finland (1997).
As you probably have seen on this site we are a little bit disappointed how the relationship between the organisers against the fans have been handled. We had therefore hoped for a more liberal approach from the authorities then the other scandinavians. Were we surprised or were we surprised when we after a few days realises that the norwegians had done almost everything to superseed the other scandinavian organisers when it came to supervise the fans. Unfortunately we found a country where almost everything was prohibited.
We are as a whole somewhat disappointed in how the organisation
was formed for this championship something that a person from the Swedish
Hockey Pool agreed on when he said to us "Never again a championship
in Norway!" We don´t know what kind of experiences that he has
had, but thanks to the fact that we together with Ruskiga Rojarna and lots
of other fans got some insanely great moments in Norway is someting that we
take the credit for and not the organisers of this championship in 1999 that
therefore gets a total ranking of 4.
The best comment during
the Championships:
- He ain´t fat! That´s the fueltank for a sex-machine! Ptrik comments
the Lillemans size in Lillehammer.
The worst streetsleepers during the
Championships:
Ruskiga Röjarna (The Terrible Partystarters) that as usual cannot stand to
party during the entire Cahmpionships showed up after about a week. The weather
had been really GREAT with sun and warmth and everything. They therefore decided
to sleep out in the open. That night it snowed approx. 2" and this was
what they woke up to that morning laying under their park-benches.
Hits that we remember this Championship by:
| Ihana, Leijonat, Ihanaa: A-typpi |
| Den glider in: Nick Borgen |