FR LIVE EVENT-Olympic Scandal Press Conference..

MSNBC.com ^ | February 13, 2002 | Kelly O' Donnell

[Patriot]

The olympics are trash! This guy is getting pissed off because a journalist just said they have no credibility

[Dog]

This is going to go nuclear...

[Grig]

I think they actually belived they could spin thier way out of it (you can't blame them for that though, they watched X42 spin the nation for years). Instead they just made it worse and dug themselves in deeper.

And they had the gaul to joke about how W got elected!

[Howlin]

The really unbelievable thing is that the French will STILL win -- they don't have a clue NOT to reverse the fix just for good PR!

Now he's making MORE snotty remarks. I bet the American skating announcers go CRAZY when they see this!

Who are the other people on that panel?

[TomGuy]

The Chinese judge, who was one of the voters for the Russian team, fled....broke a record for getting out of Dodge, so to speak.

[codebreaker]

Exactly, unless Tonya Harding comes back as a commentator or Jeff Gilooly crowbars the Ice Dancers-this isn't going away.

I give the Euros about a week to 10 days before we get an independant investigation.

[Howlin]

Yup. I'm not leaving the TV........LOL.

[irgbar-man]

Remember Surya Bonali? (danged if I spelled her name right) She was out of medal contention 4 years ago and she added an "illegal" backflip to her program.

I'd love to see this: North American skaters with no chance to medal doing an "illegal flip" of another kind as they skate past the judges tables. It'll never happen, but neither will nuking or hanging the officials involved, as has been suggested here.

[Miss Marple]

You won't believe this. A reporter just asked ASHCROFT to comment on this and are WE going to have an investigation? ROTFLMAO!!!!

Well, let's keep this little scandal bubbling. War on terror? Boring. Skating scandal? STOP THE PRESSES!

Of course, this is much better than hearing about Enron, and the advantage is that we get to criticize the Europeans. I say go for it!!

[Patriot]

The press is starting to get a little angry at this guy.

[VillageDamien]

Huh? The President of the ISU is Italian. Not French.

[Dog]

He is attacking the reporters.....

Demanding the reporter send him a letter with the charges!

This will go NUCLEAR!!!

[codebreaker]

Eurotrash just shouted down the San Franciso Chronicle reporter!!

'Send me a letter, with your fixing allegations!'

[Wyatt's Torch]

Has Waxman asked Cheney for the minutes of his meeting with the French and Russian judges? ;-)

[Miss Marple]

Oh goodie! Let's get the entire gay community on the side of the Canadians!!! This has the potential for REAL nastiness!!

[codebreaker]

N.Y. Times reporter honing in on potential lawsuits..

[Dianna]

I think we ought to pull all our skaters from these Olympics.

Would that even hurt them, though?

[Dog]

ROFL!

Quick who has Larry Klaymans phone number??

[Miss Marple]

Actually, this has the potential to consume the press for a couple of weeks. Stoke the fires!! LOL!

[section9]

Which won't matter because BY THEN THE OLYMPICS WILL BE OVER!!!!!!!!!!!

That's the whole idea behind this scam. Sweep it under the rug until the Little People are distracted by the Ladies Finals. Then hope that they can get out of town before someone goes to the Justice Department with vote swapping allegations.

Be Seeing You,

Chris