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22nd Jan 2015

Pic: Canada’s contestant in Miss Universe went all in on the ice hockey theme with her outfit

Chanel Beckenlehner's outfit for the 'national costume' round has caused a stir in Canada

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You have to doff your Stanley Cup shaped hat to her

You may not be aware that Miss Universe is not only still a thing, but it is on right now in Florida. We wouldn’t care too much either until we heard that Miss Canada, Chanel Beckenlehner, wore an outfit that was causing a sports-related fuss.

What could it be, we wondered, so we got on the Twitter machine and found this

It seems this was in the National Dress round and some Canadians are a bit pissed off that Ice Hockey was used to define the country.

We wonder how an Irish contestant would be received if they did a similar thing with hurling?

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Ice Hockey