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Police: Former Olympian Killed Wife, Jumped to His Death
Associated Press ^
| Aug 16, 2004
| Peggy Harris
Posted on 08/16/2004 9:22:15 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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Wow...whatta tragedy.
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:22:21 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:24:33 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
To: Pharmboy
Former Olympian Killed Wife, Jumped to His Death
What scores did the judges give him?
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:25:04 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
Oh, that's bad. Wonder if performance enhancing drugs, combined with the failure of making the team, contributed to this tragedy.
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:26:14 AM PDT
by
Hildy
(John Edwards is to Dick Cheney what Potsie was to the Fonz.)
To: Hildy
...and I wonder how he was doing in medical school. It's not easy, y'know.
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:28:15 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
To: dead
What scores did the judges give him? Probably pretty crappy ones - it looks like he completely missed the pool. Nice form, though.
To: dead
Not very good ones. Like most "murder-suicides," this guy got it backwards.
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:30:17 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
To: Hildy
steroids was my first thought, that and not making the team and the games being on...
sad sad sad all the way around. Sad that he killed someone, but also sad he had so much hurt that this happened.
Eh, it'll save a messy trial by newschannel.
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:30:22 AM PDT
by
eyespysomething
("Funding the American troops in combat should never be a complicated issue." D. Cheney 8-12-04)
To: Hildy
I know. I'm a bad person, but I couldn't help myself.
An Olympic jumper jumping to his death is sorta like an Olympic swimmer drowning.
It's a sad story.
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:30:46 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Pharmboy
His wife was a chief resident..why would they be living in dormitory housing?
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:30:48 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(We've looked for WMD in Iraq for LESS time than Hillary looked for the Rose Law firm billing records)
To: Rabbit29; Bonaparte; the Deejay; Netizen; All
My gosh, another guy going to medical school kills his wife--then saves us all the trouble of a trial. If only he'd done it the other way around...
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:32:51 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
To: Pharmboy
are steroids linked to violence?
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:35:21 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army and Supporting Bush/Cheney 2004!)
To: dead
dead, you are soo tacky!
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:40:32 AM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
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To: ken5050
A chief resident is most likely a fourth year resident with extra responsibilities above and beyond those of the other residents. The income is low, as she is essentially just an apprentice. They are having to pay medical school costs and are probably both under extreme pressure with no time to think about taking care of an apartment, much less a house.
To: Pharmboy
Howard finished eighth in the triple jump at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and seventh at the 2000 Games in Sydney.Apparently he didn't do as well with the long jump.
To: Pharmboy
And now for something completely similiar....
olympic Judo Champ's Boyfriend Jumps Off Same Balcony
Fox Sports ^ | August 10, 2004 | Niko Price
Posted on 08/10/2004 8:05:07 AM EDT by SoloGlobalExplorer
NEA IONIA, Greece (AP) - As relatives tell it, it was the stuff of Greek tragedy: A love-struck young man threw himself off his balcony Monday, two days after a quarrel prompted his girlfriend - a member of Greece's Olympic judo team - to jump from the same spot.
"He had very intense feelings about the girl. He was very much in love," said Nikos Drakopoulos, a printer who lives across the hall from the couple. "He could not see himself living if she was gone."
Giorgos Chrisostomides, 24, was on life-support at an Athens hospital with injuries to his head and back. His high-school sweetheart, 20-year-old judo champion Eleni Ioannou, was at another hospital in critical condition with multiple fractures to her head and body.
http://msn.foxsports.com/story/2650756
To: PBRSTREETGANG
Yeah, that concrete poisoning is a bitch.
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:50:56 AM PDT
by
gunnygail
(John F Kerry: The "F" stands for FRENCHY!)
To: dead
That was soooo baaaad.
Red
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posted on
08/16/2004 9:51:24 AM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(I love the 1st Amendment...I can call Clinton an idiot.)
To: xzins
are steroids linked to violence? They call it roid rage.
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