A REAL KICK
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Body checks went over particularly well with the hockey crowd during a recent preliminary-round game.
“I like the way it makes that thudding noise,” said Mitsunori Hirai, a government employee who brought his family to Nagano from Yokohama, about three hours away by train. “Hockey is like a martial art. I like that.”
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