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MOSCOW, July 19 (R-Sport/RIA Novosti) – Critics of Russia's extraordinary success at this month's World University Games need help with their sex lives, President Vladimir Putin suggested Friday, after the country’s record-breaking haul of medals drew skepticism earlier this month. Known for his lack of patience with dissent and liberal use of salty language in condemning critics, Putin took a shot at those who complained the country deployed too many Olympic-level athletes in a competition meant to be restricted to students during the July 6-17 event in Kazan. "I’d like to advise them to take up sport themselves, and if...

How to save the Olimpics I was thinking about the Olimpics the other day and about how to make things more efficient and more entertaining. If you watch the stands rather than the "action" you will see more empty seats than occupied seats. I propse that we combine events to get the activities over with in half the time and would make things more interesting. Here are my suggestions. Javelin throw and Pole vault: The javelin would be thrown at the pole vaulter who would catch it and then use the javelin to vault the pole. Skeet shooting and...

Imagine the following Olympic scenario: A white American Olympic wrestler draws as his first opponent a black wrestler from an African country. Rather than touch a black man, the American wrestler forfeits the match. When the head of the American wrestling team is asked for his reaction, he says, "That's his choice, and I have to say that, frankly, I respect it." The outcry would be instantaneous. The American wrestler would be permanently banned from Olympic competition and the U.S. would be condemned for having selected so bigoted a representative. The head of the team, who commended the wrestler, would...