{"id":14187,"date":"2026-02-15T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/14187\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:23:10","slug":"fans-told-to-take-down-greenland-flag-during-denmark-u-s-mens-hockey-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/14187\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans told to take down Greenland flag during Denmark-U.S. men&#8217;s hockey game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Milan, Italy - February 14: Supporters from the Denmark during the Ice Hockey - Preliminary Round - Group C match between United States and Denmark at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on February 14, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Alex Gottschalk\/DeFodi Images\/DeFodi via Getty Images)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TUSRXVGPXZBN3JPWACIBVIIUNY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Two fans waved a Greenland flag during the Denmark-U.S. men\u2019s hockey game on Saturday. DeFodi Images via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-olympics \">Two fans who were waving a Greenland flag during the Denmark-U.S. men\u2019s hockey game on Saturday \u201cwere told by venue staff that they could not continue to hold up the flag, even as American flags were waved throughout the stands.\u201d One of the fans said he was told by an arena employee, \u201cIt was due to safety reasons, because there could be American aggressive people.\u201d The status of the Greenland flag at the Games \u201cis unclear because Greenland doesn\u2019t participate with its own team\u201d and instead sends its athletes as part of Denmark\u2019s contingent. An official Olympic guide for the opening ceremony \u201cspecified that fans can only bring \u2018flags of countries and territories participating in the Games\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/denmark-greenland-trump-hockey-flag-olympics-feae456efe1a8dcd60aa3271e6a31dc9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/denmark-greenland-trump-hockey-flag-olympics-feae456efe1a8dcd60aa3271e6a31dc9\">AP, 2\/14<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two fans waved a Greenland flag during the Denmark-U.S. men\u2019s hockey game on Saturday. DeFodi Images via Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[57,10722],"class_list":{"0":"post-14187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-greenland","8":"tag-greenland","9":"tag-ioc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}