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Canadian Figure Skaters Get Gold, Russians Furious
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| 2/15/02
| Adrian Warner
Posted on 02/15/2002 11:42:28 AM PST by The_Victor
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
If you would like to start the live thread, that would be great. I was going up to SLC today, but I am not feeling all that swell, and the thought of standing outside for hours on end does not appeal to me. I'll pop in with my comments about the ice skating though, can't wait to see the costumes. Of course, I don't think ice dancing has been all that great in the Olympics since Torvil and Dean in 1984...
To: Snuffington
The Russians didn't earn the gold - the Russian guy stumbled. The Canadians didn't.
To: Stefan Stackhouse
Yeah, they have to now, and some-else gets the Silver.
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To: Weimdog
Any competition that needs judges to determine the outcome should be banished from the Olympic Games. Like boxing, for example?
And what about refs? They are essentially judges as their ruling effect outcome. Like in football when the ref says the kick/TD is good or not.
So, here's the solution: ban all sports from the Olympics. Thus, no human "judgement."
Now, can we get practical please?
To: Lumberjack
Russia should bomb Canada. Not for this, in particular. Just sort of on principle. Olympics? Relevent to my life? Don't think so You're weird, man, really weird.
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02/15/2002 12:58:58 PM PST
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Gracey
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Or we can just use the daily Olympics thread this evening, whatever you prefer... Here is the
link.
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To: The_Victor
If the Russian can only get a gold medal by cheating and then their cheating fails, they deserve to be furious.(They got caught)
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02/15/2002 1:02:37 PM PST
by
Texbob
To: Serge
"Might without mind" is the characterictic of typical bully.Rather ironic coming from a former Soviet.
Mind without might gets a "super wedgie" before suffering the humiliating "swirrly".
Of course lately Russia has neither might nor mind, thus gets ignored completely. Get used to it.
BTW, how much do Russian olympic gold medals go for in the flea markets of Moscow these days? Maybe $20?
I won't ask how much Russian former figure skaters go for. ;)
To: The_Victor
So, the Russians are upset. Too bad! They should be ashamed of themselves for wanting their pairs skaters to win by crooked means, when they obviously were not the best skaters of that night. They should be proud of Alexi Yugandi, the male skater that won the gold last night. He did deserve the gold. How would they have liked it if Yugandi had been screwed over by the judges and wound up with the silver and some less deserving non-Russian skater took the gold? They would be complaining too.
To: Serge
If there was proved cheating in judging then why to leave those medals to russian pair? I agree. The Russians should give up their gold medals and take the silvers. Shall we ask the big bad American media to accomplish that next? The Canadians were being classy in just asking for an equal medal.
BTW, if there was nothing "proven," why was the judge suspended? Don't cha think that there's maybe some things about this situtation that haven't been reported to the public? You're just repeating the Russian coach's "talking points" based on limited knowledge. If the judge was suspended, the skating committee likely knows more than they are saying.
To: dougherty
They should be proud of Alexi Yugandi, the male skater that won the gold last night. He did deserve the gold. Isn't he the one who already lives in the US and is planning to naturalize after the Olympics?
To: Serge
I say ----you didn't listen to the news conference this morning where the ISU President said there was wrongdoing on the part of the French judge and she has been suspended.He also said that the investigation is going to continue.
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To: Serge
But same judge revoked it later. So she made up a lie and took it back later?
More likely she told the truth and then was pressured to deny it to be politic. One scenario makes sense; the other doesn't.
To: Serge
How they possibly could pressure the judge? Three words: French ice dancers.
Get real, Serge. The problems in the judging for ice skating are hardly new. The "iron curtian bloc" voting was de rigeur for years. You act like this has never happened before. To the contrary, it has been happening for far too long.
To: Serge
All your gold medals are belong to us.... eh?!
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To: Serge
I bet they will drop all that ivestigation the month after the Games. Will say that nothing was corroborated. Probably. And the corruption will continue. And your point was?
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