{"id":14224,"date":"2026-02-15T19:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/14224\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:27:17","slug":"hockey-fans-raise-greenland-flag-as-u-s-plays-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/14224\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Fans Raise Greenland Flag As U.S. Plays Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILAN (AP) \u2014 Two fans who raised a flag of Greenland as the United States played Denmark in men\u2019s hockey at the Winter Olympics<\/a> say they did so as a gesture of European support for the island and for Denmark.<\/p>\n

Vita Kalni\u0146a and her husband Alexander Kalni\u0146\u0161, fans of the Latvian hockey team who live in Germany, held up a large Greenland flag during warmups and again when the Danish team scored the opening goal of the preliminary round game against the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are Europeans and I think as Europeans we must hold together,\u201d Kalni\u0146\u0161 told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Greenlandic people decide what will happen with Greenland, but as it is now, Greenland is a part of the Danish kingdom and, as Greenland is a part of Denmark as in this case, we support both countries against the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other American and Danish fans who watched their teams face off Saturday at an Olympic hockey game in Milan said they believe sports transcends politics amid recent tensions between their governments over Greenland.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s rhetoric in recent weeks about taking control of Greenland<\/a> has stirred up national pride in Denmark, which oversees the semiautonomous island. That the teams just happen to face off at the Milan Cortina Olympics<\/a> is no extra motivation to the players, but it is a chance for them to ride a wave of patriotism as significant underdogs.<\/p>\n

Kostya Manenkov, James Ellingworth and Stephen Whyno in Milan contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN (AP) \u2014 Two fans who raised a flag of Greenland as the United States played Denmark in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[57,3776,2739],"class_list":["post-14224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-greenland","tag-hockey","tag-winter-olympics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224","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=14224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}