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Ha! We killed ’em.

Hey, somebody had to pay. For all the East Germans who took steroids and then kicked our butts, for all the Soviets who trained 24 hours a day in secret government facilities and, yes, for all the Chinese swimmers who got caught with growth hormones in Perth, Australia, last month . . .

This whuppin’ is for you.

After 4,318 exhibition games, the U.S. women’s hockey team took to the ice for real Sunday in Nagano. I had been waiting for this. After years of getting smacked around in far too many Winter Olympic sports, it was payback time. . . . The U.S. women beat China 5-0.