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Fugitive on the run for years arrested when he turns up at the Olympics to watch hockey
It’s usually pretty easy to tell whose side hockey fans are on unless you’re not actually cheering on the players. We’re here for the ref. Said no one ever. Yeah, I know. I love it. That’s quite all right. Proud moment. Shawna Neri is one of 12 referees for Olympic women’s ice hockey. She’s also 8-year-old Charlie’s hockey coach and mom. My mom and my mummy were crying, and I was like, Why are you crying? And then they’re like, We made it to the Olympics. This is her first Olympics, so this was *** dream when she started refereeinging quite *** number of years ago, and she’s been to *** lot of international hockey federation tournaments. So it’s been *** building block for sure, and this is *** very special moment to be able to get here. Becoming an Olympic hockey ref. It isn’t easy. Shawna spent 4 years reffing things like world championships and Olympic qualifiers to get here. For her to make it thus far is just amazing to have all these support people to be able to come all the way to Italy is even more amazing. So if things get rough on the ice, all she’s got to do is look up to her crowd, and she’ll have her little man here. That little man has gelato on the line if mom wipes out. When she falls, she gets me ice cream. If she falls on the ice during *** game, you get ice cream. Yeah, she buys me ice cream. What are you rooting for today, Charlie? I don’t know. Something tells me ice cream will have to wait as mom gives the Olympics her gold medal best.
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A Slovak fugitive who had been on the run for 16 years was finally arrested when he turned up in Milan to support his national ice hockey team at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, police said Friday.Related video above: Olympic fans who are in Milan to be in the referee’s cornerThe 44-year-old man, who was not named, was wanted by Italian authorities for a series of thefts committed in 2010.The carabinieri managed to track down and arrest the man Wednesday after he checked into a campsite on the outskirts of Milan, thanks to an automatic alert from the campsite reception.The fugitive was then taken to Milan’s San Vittore prison to serve a pending sentence of 11 months and 7 days, according to the carabinieri, Italy’s military police.The man did not manage to see the opening game in which Slovakia’s hockey team beat Finland with a sound 4-1 at Milan’s Santagiulia Arena on Wednesday.
A Slovak fugitive who had been on the run for 16 years was finally arrested when he turned up in Milan to support his national ice hockey team at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, police said Friday.
Related video above: Olympic fans who are in Milan to be in the referee’s corner
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The 44-year-old man, who was not named, was wanted by Italian authorities for a series of thefts committed in 2010.
The carabinieri managed to track down and arrest the man Wednesday after he checked into a campsite on the outskirts of Milan, thanks to an automatic alert from the campsite reception.
The fugitive was then taken to Milan’s San Vittore prison to serve a pending sentence of 11 months and 7 days, according to the carabinieri, Italy’s military police.
The man did not manage to see the opening game in which Slovakia’s hockey team beat Finland with a sound 4-1 at Milan’s Santagiulia Arena on Wednesday.
