1957 Ice Hockey World Championships
Sven Johansson of Sweden scores a goal against East Germany. Sweden won the match 11–1. With the boycott, the home team USSR was heavily favoured to win the tournament, but Sweden surprised the world by pulling off an upset. The first step was taken in their third game, when they beat Czechoslovakia 2-0. This important victory was saved by the head of Leksands IF defenseman Vilgot Larsson. He literally headed the puck away from the Swedish net to save a goal, and in the days before mandatory helmets, received several stitches for his heroics. In the final game, Sweden opened with two goals, but the dynamic Soviets responded with 4 goals of their own. Down by two in the third period, goals by Eilert Määttä and Erling Lindström tied …Continue Reading
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Ice_Hockey_World_Championships#Competition
All medal-winning athletes should be given this option.
It’s like they say: nobody expects the Swedish competition.
[Here’s](https://youtu.be/Nd-PpktcaL0?t=34) the drinking song they sang. Performed by Will Ferrel and Alicia Vikander at the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon.
TIL Swedes had a sense of humour.
As a Norwegian I swore a solemn oath to tease Swedes whenever they are brought up in conversation. I regret nothing.
The fact that the song was Helan går made my whole year
The Kazakh national anthem from Borat was used instead of the original Kazakh national anthem at a medal ceremony in 2012.
To be fair, expecting an outcome that didn’t pan out is the fundamental Soviet quality.
Since when would any Swedish song, National Anthem or otherwise, NOT be about drinking?
Translation of the lyrics:
Hell and gore,
Chung Hop father Allan Allan ley.
Hell and gore,
Chung Hop father Allan ley.
Oh handsome in the hell and tar,
hand hell are in the half and four.
Hell and gore,
Chung Hop father Allan ley.
it’s like “PLAY JAJA DING DONG”, just with a swedish song
Well you know, when in Rome…
Sven Tumba is a legend. RIP
A similar thing happened with the Swedes and Finns in 1995. The Swedes were so sure of their hockey gold that they had already prepared a victory song. When they ended up losing (the first hockey championship victory for Finland BTW), the Finns adopted it as their own. Convenient when Swedish is one of Finland’s two official languages.
Fun fact: the tune of the US national anthem is based on a drinking song (“To Anacreon in Heaven”).
They should have sang the classic *Ja Ja Ding Dong*
Had it been Slovenia you would get a drinking song either way, because the national anthem IS a drinking song (specifically a verse of a drinking song).
My grandpa played back then, won the world championship by 1962, ill see if I can get some more juicy information from back then from him. Sadly hes hospitalized so no visit in the near future due to covid19. Önskar dig en snabb återhämtning farfar!
“Marshall Zhukov was standing at attention for a Swedish drinking song”
Nobody expected the Swedish Inquisition
What idiots, who doesn’t have a copy of “Du gamla, Du fria” sitting around?
Love it
They should’ve sung the Hedgehog Song 😛
This sounds like a story your significant other’s really alpha dad would tell you. I like it. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
America’s anthem literally *was* a drinking song, so how could anyone know the difference
Skol! Skol! Skol!