BEIJING — When the puck drops here Tuesday afternoon on the latest edition of the Winter Olympics’ fiercest rivalry, former United States captain Meghan Duggan will be parked behind a computer at her Connecticut home, cheering on the women’s hockey team alongside fellow alumni at a virtual watch party that she helped put together. Her wife will not be invited.
“We’ve talked about it,” Duggan says. “It’s going to be separate rooms, separate TVs, I think.”
Even in the wider sports world, few matchups contain the raw passion and tension that is conjured every quadrennial when the U.