‘We are Europeans’: Fans fly Greenland flag during Olympic USDenmark ice hockey game
Feb 14, 2026
Greenland flag raised in crowd after Danes’ opening goalFans say gesture is sign of support amid Trump rhetoricAmericans pull away after slow start for 6-3 winTwo 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 th
ey did so as a gesture of European support for the island and for Denmark.Vita Kalniņa and her husband, Alexander Kalniņš, 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. Continue reading... ...read more read less