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To: Utah Girl
"You have seen how the public reacts to even the tiniest mistakes of our athletes, and how they absolutely don't notice when the Canadians fall or when the Americans fall."

By pressuring the judges, the Russians were simply compensating for the bias against their athletes -- levelling the playing field, if you will. Surely there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, everybody knows that levelling the playing field is a noble and righteous thing, right?

132 posted on 02/15/2002 1:27:54 PM PST by Yardstick
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135 posted on 02/15/2002 1:31:47 PM PST by Dominic Harr
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