Communists Accuse America of ‘Stealing’ Olympic Gold: Wek, Ukraine
Feb 23rd, 2010 | 4 responses
Those stalwart defenders of mother Russia, the communists of St. Petersburg and Leningrad, are at it again. In the past, they’ve called for the arrest of James Cameron for stealing the story of Avatar from Soviet science fiction writers, they have demanded that the Russian Orthodox Church canonize Joseph Stalin, and they’ve complained about the way the KGB was depicted in James Bond films and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
This time their target is what they claim to be a U.S.-capitalist conspiracy regarding the Olympic Games and specifically, figure skating and the defeat of Evgeny Plushenko at the hands of American Evan Lysacek.
Hold on to your Cold War-era hats. Speaking for the Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region and the Central Committee of the Communists of Russia, Duma member Sergei Malinkovich is quoted by Ukraine’s Wek newspaper as saying in part:
For me it’s obvious that there’s a dirty political game going on in Vancouver. Puppet judges ignored the Russian figure skater’s brilliant performance and his cosmic leap, and let the dark American Lysaceka win. Clad all in black, his boring moves were suspiciously reminiscent of the latest generation of android. … All who are versed in global politics know that Canada has never had real sovereignty, that it’s a colony of the United States and that all of its judges are under the thumb of the White House. An exponential humiliation of Russia – this was the supreme task of the global capital-funded Olympic Games in Vancouver.”
The big question that arises is whether we should continue our country’s participation in these Western farces, where all the prizes are awarded in advance and the judges aren’t guided by objective criteria, but by instructions from the Pentagon. … we must consider whether it’s advisable to invite a number of Western countries to the Sochi Olympics. Without the Americans, the Sochi air will be cleaner!
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4 Responses to “Communists Accuse America of ‘Stealing’ Olympic Gold: Wek, Ukraine”
My understanding is that there was a rules “problem”. The russian had a higher difficulty and the american skated better technically. The way the rules are now, the better technician won.
This is a lot like the “Vonn-proof” quote from her husband. Yes, it sucks that the Austrian coach was allowed to design the super-g course, but those are the rules. He won the lottery and did what he could to help his athlete win a gold.
Or the Austrians filing a complaint against a swiss ski jumper the day of competition. The guy had been using an approved binding for months….and you wait until the day of competition to complain???
Don't cry about rules you knew of before the games started….especially after your person loses.
“And the gold medal for sniveling sour-grapes whining goes to Russia. What a performance! Dick Button, that sets a new Olympic record for whining, and one that may stand for a very long time.”
“That's right. As we watch the replay here, note the delivery, the pout, the trademark sneer. The Russians truly excel at umbrage and always receive very high marks for it. The audience just loves it.”
Perhaps if he had not skated his whole program like it was a ceremonial coronation after he landed the quad, and actually put effort into his other jumps, he would have his gold. Heck, he WOULD have had the gold.
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
As I recall, his landing on that quad and a few other jumps weren't as clean as Lysacek's landings on all of his jumps. A bigger, but sloppier, jump wasn't going to win it this year.