Posted on 07/17/2012 4:20:00 AM PDT by marktwain
Australia shooter Russell Mark arrived in Britain an angry man after being told he won't be allowed to sleep with his wife during the London Olympics.
Mark and his wife Lauryn, a fellow competitor who is also on the Australian shooting team, have been told to room separately during the Games.
The 48-year-old Mark, competing at his sixth Olympics, said Australian officials had enforced the ban as a result of Lauryn's contentious appearance in 'lads magazine' Zoo, where she has been photographed holding a shotgun over her back dressed only in a green and gold bikini.
Mark said he and his wife were being punished for being a married couple.
"The stupid part of this...is that there are tons of gay couples on the Olympic team who will be rooming together so we are being discriminated against because we are heterosexual.
"Every couple, whether they are married or de facto should have the AOC (Australian Olympic Committee) trying to bend over backwards to accommodate their needs. What pissed (angered) the AOC more than anything else is the photo shoot. It's just too hard for them."
But Nick Green, chef de mission for the Australian team, dismissed the claims and denied there was discrimination against heterosexual couples.
"It is simply not true. I have known Russell for 16 years.
"Accommodation and bedding are done in a particular way to ensure all the athletes are accommodated in the village."
Green added making exceptions would have a "significant domino effect".
Mark made headlines in Australia in May when he threatened to parade at the opening ceremony of the Games in a lime-green mankini.
He said then the penalty for losing the wager over the outcome of an Aussie Rules football clash was to don the skimpy bathing suit made famous by the movie
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This is the most open and shut case of NOT GUILTY I’ve ever seen!
Wow!!!!!!!
I’d be pissed if I couldn’t sleep with her every night too!
My picture is gone!
"What are the Olympics? Never heard of them."
“Accommodation and bedding are done in a particular way to ensure all the athletes are accommodated in the village.”
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I am not too bright, someone tell me how putting a married couple in the same room instead of two seperate rooms doesn’t free up one room.
Of course they wouldn’t dare seperate a homosexual couple.
I wouuld chew through the door to get at that if it were mine.
What a nice young lady in that pic. Showing us where to insert.
The logical question to address would be "what does 'particular way' mean, and where is it spelled out in the rule book?"
In addition, the author, Mr. Mark and the quoted official all seem to be bending over backwards to avoid mentioning the role of the gun in the picture in the controversy. That's probably what really set off the politically correct brouhaha.
Cue the gay Nazi’s troopers...to get his mind right...
What the article illustrates is failure. The Brits running the show failed to anticipate the fact there might be two athletes that were married and to provide accommodations.
The problem is purely Brit failure
A stripper pole in the living room? Wow. Double wow, on her ability to hold herself up with her clenched thighs. I am impressed.
He’s really being punished for threatening to wear the mankini.
All I can say is that Laz better not try and hit it... her husband is a crack shot!
This is no sport. What man lets his wife pose like this without serious marital problems. They probably don’t sleep together, they’re just attention hogs. Worshiping the self.
You have zero clue what's going on with these people.
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