Boycott this.
Posted on 07/04/2007 9:27:19 PM PDT by tetuhe1898
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Vladimir Putin pulled off for Russia what Tony Blair did for Britain in the latest Olympic vote. Backed by the Russian president's personal lobbying, charisma and government support, the Black Sea resort of Sochi was elected Wednesday as the host city of the 2014 Winter Games. Sochi defeated the South Korean city of Pyeongchang by four votes in the final round of a secret ballot by the International Olympic Committee, taking the Winter Games to Russia for the first time. The result was a personal triumph for "the captain," who put his international prestige on the line by coming to Guatemala to lobby IOC members and lead Sochi's final formal presentation. "Putin being here was very important," said French IOC member and former ski champion Jean-Claude Killy. "He worked very hard at it. He was nice. He spoke French -- he never speaks French. He spoke English -- he never speaks English. "The Putin charisma can explain four votes."
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I wonder whether the 2014 Sochi Olympics will be boycotted by some countries...
Who? Estonia?
Get your head out of the Cold War.
It’s over.
Maybe you shouldn’t fly on Boeing Deamliners. They have a substantial Russian design-build contribution and Aeroflot bought 22 of them.
Boycott this.
Accounting all this, the boycott concept doesn't seem impossible.
It’s also bizarre that Putin is mentioned as having “charisma.” Who knew?
Geez..
Does anybody really care about the olympics anymore?
Just looking at cross-investment in each others’ economies, I’d say you’d be down to an Estonian boycott, if that.
For sure throw Ukraine off the list.
FYI, the US is 7th in the list of investors in the Russian economy. (Voice of Russia number)
It’s surprising what a little Polonium can do for your personality.
I wonder what calibre that comes in?
I’d love to go on a bobsled. probably kill meself, but that might make some people happy;-)
I went down with a track rat in semi-good equipment for the first time in Lake Placid. Among racers, Lake Placid is not noted as being too friendly.
I’d rank the ride right up there with my first solo as a pilot and my only ride in a 200HP/cyl (5-series BMW) race car for thrills.
you lucky !@#@!! ;-) I wish I could weasel a bobseld ride down the chute, perhaps a luge...
they tell me I have a death wish.
I was thinking it might be kind of neat if they went to an 8-year cycle instead of a 7-year cycle. (I remember when it was 6 years.)
Anyway, I think it was Athens 2004, or maybe Sydney 2000, when they showed the cities vying for the Games 8 years hence. I thought it might have been dramatic if at the closing ceremonies, they said, “join us in X in 4 years, and in Y in 8 years.”
I was thinking it might be kind of neat if they went to an 8-year cycle instead of a 7-year cycle. (I remember when it was 6 years.)
Anyway, I think it was Athens 2004, or maybe Sydney 2000, when they showed the cities vying for the Games 8 years hence. I thought it might have been dramatic if at the closing ceremonies, they said, “join us in X in 4 years, and in Y in 8 years.”
it may be nice, but nobody I know watches them at all anymore. must be getting old or something.
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