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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: The_Victor
Maybe the russians should stop trying ti "fix" the result. They complain when their illegal and unethical practices are discovered. Remind you of anyone? (Hint: Sounds like "Klintoon".)
To: The_Victor
Lets see what shows up on the news first tonight: Enron or skating scandal.
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posted on
02/15/2002 1:17:32 PM PST
by
kidd
Hey IOC, gather up your three-ring circus, pick up your toys, and leave my country NOW!!! I suggest you hold your winter Olympics in the Sudan and the summer Olympics at the South Pole. (Keep out of the United States sector because the penguins arent going to be amused either.)
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To: Utah Girl
Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. I hope you start feeling on top of the world quickly.
To: Serge
Perhaps the Russian & French judges need to meet Tonya Harding? She can knock some sense into them...with a lead pipe!
The French never cease to annoy & disgust me and I have found most Russians to be very untrustworthy.
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posted on
02/15/2002 1:24:35 PM PST
by
Feiny
To: Serge
Uncovered?:) The fact that olympics choose to leave gold medal russian skaters simply emphasize the fact for everyone that Olympics was compelled by american public to give gold medals to canadians. Don't you see that? Do you even know what you're talking about? Taking the French judge out would leave the pairs tied. Therefore gold to both.
? Accually olympics laughed on you. They was compelled almost extorted to give up gold medals under tremendous pressure but they did it such a way that anyone in future will call those canadians the "court chempions". Or "extort chempions".
Canada extorting? LOL!!! Canada has no weight to do any such thing. Usually Canada is at the short end of the stick on these matters. You seem to have more information than the Committee? They made findings of fact. They saw the evidence. You can't add a single thing now except whine. As I stated, you're lucky they left the gold with your useless pair of skaters.
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posted on
02/15/2002 1:26:18 PM PST
by
Lent
To: Lumberjack
Russia should bomb Canada.Or France
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posted on
02/15/2002 1:26:56 PM PST
by
grania
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?
Comment #133 Removed by Moderator
To: Utah Girl
If you are under the weather, the Guild would be happy to host for you tonight. Consider it done.
To: All
- Did everyone notice that when pressured, the French judge surrendered?
- Does this mean the Russians can still claim an unbroken streak of victories?
- Anyone want to start a pool to guess how much that judge could get for the rights to her story?
To: The_Victor
< soccer mom voice = on>
I think everyone should have gotten a gold medal. Everyone tried sooo hard. And everyone's been sooo nice. After all, there no reason for anyone's feelings to get hurt now is there?
Awwww...Group hug now!
< soccer mom voice = off>
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posted on
02/15/2002 1:32:01 PM PST
by
kidd
To: The_Victor
My wife is Russian, LOVES figure skating, LOVES Russia's team, and says ..."the Canadians were robbed"!
To: USAF_ret
"... Nothing however will ever pay them back for the '72 basketball finals. What a joke!!!"Barcelona, 1992.
Charles Barkley
Larry Bird
Clyde Drexler
Patrick Ewing
Magic Johnson
Michael Jordan
Christian Laettner
Karl Malone
Chris Mullin
Scottie Pippen
David Robinson
John Stockton
To: Dog Gone
Overruled!
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