In 1980 olympic hockey, US won gold, USSR silver and Sweden bronze. But I don't understand how that worked
Logically, I would think that the US beat USSR and advance to the gold medal round against Finland, so US wins gold, Finland Silver,and USSR plays Sweden for bronze and fourth.
But apparently, that wasn't the format of the medal round. How did US win gold and Sweden end up 4th? Can someone explain?
As I said, though, Finland DID NOT win silver. USSR did.
12 qualified teams were divided into two groups . the tornament format calls for each group to play a round-robin competition. and the top two teams in each group will advance to the medal round where each team will play only the teams from the other group once and points from previous match against their own group carry over to the medal round, excluding teams that didnt qualified in the medal round. the first place after the medal round will get the gold medal, second place, silver and third place, bronze.
Sweden and USA teams qualified in Group A with both finished with 4 wins and one draw. Sweden and USA played in a 2-2 draw that will carry over in the medal round. in Group B, Soviet Union finished first, sweeping their 5 group matches including 4-2 win over Finland, who took the Group B second spot. actually Finland and Canada ended up tied for second, but Finland advanced to the medal round because they defeated Canada, 4-3.
since the results of USA-Sweden and USSR-Finland carried over to the medal round, USSR entered the medal round with 1-0-0 (win-loss-draw) record, Sweden and USA, 0-0-1 and Finland 0-1-0. in the medal round, USA defeated USSR (4-3) and Finland (4-2), and Sweden lost to USSR 0-13 and drew with Finland 3-3.
so the final standing..
1.) USA 2-0-1 (win-loss-draw)
2.) USSR 2-1-0
3.) Sweden 0-1-2
4.) Finland 0-2-1
USA got the Gold, USSR, the silver and Sweden, the bronze.
So obviously, as what almost everybody tend to believe that the USA-Finland game is a gold-medal match. actually, it was not. In fact, USSR has a chance to snatch the gold medal away from the USA, if the Americans didn't win their final game against Finland.
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