Why did the USA men's ice hockey team play Canada twice in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
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The 3 group winners, and a fouth (wild card) automatically move on to the quaterfinals, they wre U.S., Russia, Sweden, and Finland. The other teams then played in a 8 team playoff qualification round. Canada, Switzerland, Slovakia, and Czech Republic moved on to play in the 8 team quaterfinals. U.S. played Switzerland, and Canada played Russia. Both teams won their games and moved to the semifinals, wher the U.S. played Finland, and Canada played Slovakia. They both won those games meaning they would meet in the Gold medal match.
I hope this explained it all well enough. Below is a link to the olympic website, where I got all of my information. It shows how it was all set up.
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Canada and US were in Group A along with Switzerland and Norway
Both Canada and US qualified in the upper rounds and they met again in the final
It happens in competitions when there are groups and the winners of the groups advance to the play-offs
for example in the Soccer World Cup
In 2002 Brazil met Turkey twice, once in the group and another time in the semi-final
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