‘We are Europeans’: fans fly Greenland flag during Olympic US-Denmark ice hockey game
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Two fans who raised a flag of Greenland as the United States played Denmark in men's ice hockey at the Winter Olympics on Saturday say they did so as a gesture of European support for the island and for Denmark.
Vita Kalnia and her husband, Alexander Kalni, 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 US at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.
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