Canadian skaters totally screwed!!!!

[Ming]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
With zero evidence to the contrary, yes, I believe that she knew nothing.

Now what do you believe

[The Vagabond]

Wow, your propagandistic machine is truly overwhelming. Congratulations.

[KrazyHorse]

Oh, give it up. The French judge traded her f*cking vote. It's not just Canada whining on this one.

[Ming]

Originally posted by The Vagabond
Wow, your propagandistic machine is truly overwhelming. Congratulations.

Don't you just love it... they get caught, and people still want to deny the truth.

[Hobbes]

yippee! Gold for all!

[Lefty Scaevola]

You all do know that the Ukraine judge on this panel was supened in the past hen he was caught (on tape) trading votes at Nagano.

[Flubber]

It was unfortunate what they had to go through but for Sale and pelletier this will be a big "win" in more ways than one. Now they get the gold they deserved all along and as well, their grace and sportmanship through the whole thing and all the publicity will likely mean some pretty large endoresment deals after the games are over.

They might have corrected this result but one wonders about the broader corruption issues in the sport. In ice dance I have heard that once again the fix is in and in fact, even though the competition is yet to start, the skaters know exactly what the planned placings are.


and vagabound . . . .

"propaganda" ??
No propoganda . . . only truth

and by the way . . . haven't you heard ?? the Cold War is over and you lost

[blackice]

As it should be!! Way to go CANADA!!!

[Guynemer]

File this one under "cover our asses, and let's get the hell out of here."

The whole so-called "sport" is fundamentally flawed. It's like it's a bullet-riddled assault victim, and they just slapped a band-aid on the gaping wound in the guy's tuckus. No way they're going to bother going after the guy with the gun.

[blackice]

Pelletier response was quite funny he said "well I hope we get the bronze too...then we can have the entire set"

[Rogan Josh]

I don't really understand the fuss. The scores were extremely close. Both couples deserve recognition for doing well and they both got that. A silver medal at the Olympics is nothing to be ashamed of. Besides, it should be taking part which is important - not winning. (Remember the Jamaican bob-sleigh team?)

I also fail to understand why you lot think you know more about ice-skating than the judges do. Don't you think it takes a lot of extertise to know how difficult certain manouvers are and judge how well they were performed?

Give it a rest for goodness sake!

[The Vagabond]

While the IOC reacted as a bunch of wimps by yielding to the enormous pressure, they actully had little choice, if we try to think about it. The only alternative would be to screw the rest of the Games, just as these five days have been screwed. Thus, what the IOC yielded to was in essence a blackmail from the host of the Games, organized by its media and public.

No wonder that that "fragil" and hysteric woman was so overwhelmed that she had a panic attack and "confessed".

[Asher]

Get over it. Russia kept their gold, Canada got theirs.

A judge with a sketchy past has been proven to have been biased in a VERY close competition, why are you upset there are two gold medals?



Russians are funny critters.