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The game might be tactically conservative, but the players wont hold anything else back when the Canadian womens hockey team meets the United States on Saturday. The Canadian and American women square off in Burlington, Vt., in the first of up to eight meetings before the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, in February. A second exhibition game is scheduled for Oct. 17 in Boisbriand, Que. Canada and the U.S. have met in the final of all 15 womens world championships with the Canadians holding a 10-5 record, but the U.S. winning four of the last five world titles. Canada is the three-time defending Olympic champion. Both teams are training full-time -- Canada in Calgary and the U.S. in Bedford, Mass. -- so Saturdays game at the University of Vermont is the first chance for each country to see what the other has been up to. "I dont think either team will expose every part of their game and wont be at 100 per cent in every part of their game, but every time you get to play them its a great opportunity to learn about your own team and what you need to do to get better," Canadian head coach Dan Church said. "I think any times these two teams get to play each other, I think emotion takes over and the passion for your national pride comes to the forefront and it becomes a battle. Theres a good amount of animosity between the players and ultra-competitiveness." The four other exhibition games between the two countries are scheduled for Dec. 12 in Calgary, Dec. 20 in Grand Forks, N.D., Dec. 28 in St. Paul, Minn., and Dec. 30 in Toronto. Canada and the U.S. will also meet in the round robin and possibly again in the final at the annual Four Nations Cup in Lake Placid, N.Y., in November. The two countries dont often play each other more than four times in a non-Olympic season. Canadian forward Caroline Ouellette doesnt expect multiple meetings this winter will dull the rivalry. "When we face each other, we go really hard at one another," the Montreal native said. "Its going to be played very physical with a lot of passion. I really look forward to see where we are at this point in our preparation compared to them." Forward Marie-Philip Poulin, who scored both of Canadas goals in a 2-0 win over the U.S. in the 2010 Olympic final, is out for another two to four weeks with a sprained ankle she suffered in September. Forward Megan Agosta-Marciano will sit out Saturdays game with what Church calls a lower-body injury, but he thought she may be ready to play in Boisbriand. Multiple games against the Americans means all three Canadian goalies will get their chances to face them. Since countries are allowed to take three goalies to the Winter Games, Edmontons Shannon Szabados, Charline Labonte of Boisbriand and Genevieve Lacasse of Kingston, Ont., already know theyre on the Canadian team. Only two goalies can dress for the games in Sochi so theyre vying for coveted starts at the Olympics. The format of the Olympic womens hockey tournament has been altered. Canada and the U.S. will face each other in the preliminary round before a possible rematch for gold Feb. 20. The Gutterson Fieldhouse at the University of Vermont is the site of some of Canadas highest highs and lowest lows. After a demoralizing, worst-ever 9-2 loss to the Americans to open the 2012 world championship there, Ouellette scored the overtime winner for Canada in a 5-4 victory in the final. "That rink became special of how we were able to turn that tournament around and win that final game," she said. "A lot of players would say thats one of the most exciting games theyve been part of and I think it taught us a lot about ourselves, about our character, losing so badly in the first game and being up in the final, the U.S. coming back and taking the lead and for us not giving up." The Americans defeated Canada 3-2 in Ottawa this year to reclaim the world title. Canada is currently carrying 27 players and the U.S. 25. Both countries will choose a dozen forwards, six defenceman and three goalies for their respective Olympic teams. Church is expected to announce the womens squad in late December. USA Hockey has scheduled the announcement of their mens and womens Olympic teams for Jan. 1. In the meantime, the Canadian women have embarked on a full schedule of games against male opponents in the Alberta Midget Hockey League. The midget triple-A players are between 15 and 18 years of age and games against the Canadian women dont include body-checking. Those games were crucial to Canadas preparation at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Games because they provided a level of competition similar to facing the U.S. women. "The great thing about playing the midget boys teams is were seeing a lot of different situations -- being down a goal with a minute or two left in the game or being down two goals going into the third period and having to battle from behind -- just all the different things you get to see throughout a season and its a huge benefit for us to play those teams," Church said. The American women have also scheduled games against boys prep school teams. "Not only the U.S. and Canada are doing that, I think some of the European countries are starting to do that too," Ouellette said. "It makes absolute sense. "We are the best women in our sport in our country. We have to match up against the boys to get better and to find those really great games where its going to be a battle each night and you cant take a shift off." Canadas record against AMHL teams is 7-3. Rebecca Johnston of Sudbury, Ont., leads Canada in scoring with five goals and eight assists. "Rebecca has always had the skill set to be a game-breaker, game-changer," Church said. "Shes really maturing in her game right now. "Regardless of what line we put her with or who her linemates are, on any given night, shes bringing a great intensity offensively and defensively. Shes seeing the game really well right now." The Canadian women train out of the Markin MacPhail Centre at Calgarys Canada Olympic Park, but they wont be there a lot for the next month. After their two road games against the U.S. women, their AMHL schedule takes Canada through Leduc, Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan, Grande Prairie, Lloydminster and St. Albert. "It allows us to get closer as a team and form those bonds and friendships that are making us a better team," Ouellette said. http://www.portugalnationalshop.com/Tiago-Mendes-Portugal-Jersey/ . 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Spectacular crashes are fairly common in jumping. Three-times Olympic gold medallist Thomas Morgenstern of Austria has ended up in hospital twice in the last two months after crashes where he suffered a broken finger as well as face and head injuries. "The next goal must be to make safer helmets with higher standards. Maybe we can do something for the protection of the .......," Hofer told reporters high up on the normal hill late on Monday night as women jumpers whistled by at 90 kph (60 mph) at the Sochi Olympics. "Whatever is available on the market we will try." Hofer noted that Alpine ski officials had spent a long time studying jackets that contain small air bags to help cushion the impact of falls. "When they get something up there we will use it. At the moment I am preparing to use some protection for certain parts of our ......., mostly the backbone," he said. Tougher helmets will be introduced into Alpine skiing and ski jumping authorities want to adopt the same standards. In recent years the FIS has taken a series of sometimes unpopular steps it says will make the sport fairer and safer. The federation imposes minimum ....... mass index requirements to weed out jumpers which it says are too light. Jumpers have to wear ....... tight suits with low aerodynamics, much to the irritation of athletes such as four-times Olympic gold medallist Simon Ammann of Switzerland. New hills have been redesigned to make the in-run smoother, a development which some jumpers say make takeoffs harder. A complex new system to compensate skiers for wind conditions will be used at the Sochi Games for the first time. Hofer, who has been at FIS for 22 years, said he began trying to make the spoort safer some 20 years ago after he saw a series of bad falls.dddddddddddd "I started to talk to experts and they told me Are you crazy? If you make ski jumping safer nobody will watch. It isnt right," said the ebullient Austrian. "I would like to attract parents to deliver their children to our beloved sport in a way they know it is a sport where athletes are cared for." As well as improving safety, Hofer - who notes that "when you release an athlete at 100 km/h from the takeoff, you cant take him back - is particularly keen to address rapidly changing wind conditions that have wrecked many a competition. Headwinds help athletes soar further but if they are too strong they can produce dangerously long jumps. Conversely, tail winds cut flying distances. In the past, officials would either scrap competitions altogether or restart them halfway through to take into account changing winds, which Hofer said frustrated spectators. Jumpers used to be judged on distance and style. Under the new system, they now can also gain or be docked points to take wind conditions into account. The calculations are made by a series of computers linked to seven sensors along the in-run. "The athletes performance is removed from the influence of external conditions," said Hofer, pointing to a screen which showed the wind strength and direction from each sensor. The challenge for audiences is that the athlete who jumps the furthest does not always win. Alexander Pointner, head coach of the Austrian team, told Reuters that spectators should not have "to think What is this, that guy jumped so far but hes only fourth, whats that? Our sport should not be so difficult". Hofer has no intention of changing his mind. "Whatever makes ski jumping safer and fairer is worth it, even if sometimes you have to take something (away) from the transparency. People will understand sooner or later," he said. FIS is looking at whether it would be possible to shine a blue laser line on the snow to show the public exactly where a jumper has to land to take the lead, he added. 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