Cheating Russians

[rah]

I was reading today about just how much money the US and private organization spent to help the US athletes better prepare. Over 80 million more than before the prior olympics. The results were overwhelming. Some athletes, (those that got extra assistance) said they finally felt on par with the European teams. During that same time the money spent on Russian athletes was considerably reduced. The results were also predictable.

So look inward before casually blaming everyone else for your own problems.

I still go back to an official release from the Russian Government. "THEY DON"T FEAR US ANYMORE" That kind of atttitude is not going to help athletes perform better.

Hopefully they will make some improvements before the next games. The competition is always welcome.

RAH

[Serb]

It wasn’t I who started personal attacks.

Imran Siddiqui did you ever hear that someone of the Russians said that it is sucks to be an American?

[Ming]

Originally posted by Serb
Cowards.

It wasn’t I who started personal attacks.

Bull****!
Keep it up, and you are toast. If it was just this thread, I might cut you some slack... but you pull this same crap in almost every post you make. So chill, or be chilled!

[Serb]

Oops, forget about this one.
Anyway, the amount of attacks on Russians is a hundred times greater. This entire tread is insult to Russian sportsmen’s and to all Russian people.

[KrazyHorse]

Nice try, Serb

[Ming]

Originally posted by Serb
Oops, forget about this one.
Anyway, the amount of attacks on Russians is a hundred times greater. This entire tread is insult to Russian sportsmen’s and to all Russian people.

Yeah... you did forget...
And are you forgeting the FACT that Russia got CAUGHT cheating... are you denying they cheated????? Why is it an insult to talk about the "facts"... Are you saying that everybody should ignore the FACT that you got caught...

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by rah
So look inward before casually blaming everyone else for your own problems.

Sure, look inward. But the problem is that in this case there is much to be looked at outward.

I still go back to an official release from the Russian Government. "THEY DON"T FEAR US ANYMORE" That kind of atttitude is not going to help athletes perform better.

Don't take it so literally. Just replace "fear" by "reckon with", and this phrase will sound correct. I hope you won't deny that the stance of a country as a whole reflects on how its athletes are treated. This is just in the human nature, for much you may want to claim that everyone is equal.

Hopefully they will make some improvements before the next games. The competition is always welcome.

I also hope. Now the oligarchs will be obliged to sponsor the sports.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by The Vagabond


Sure, look inward. But the problem is that in this case there is much to be looked at outward.

sure, just blame it on the french

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by H Tower
sure, just blame it on the french

No, the French are good people, if somewhat misguided. Unfortunately, some of their women are a little bit hysteric. Blame Canada!

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by DaShi
Upon what evidence do you base this?

Common sense and a little bit of imagination.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Ming
And are you forgeting the FACT that Russia got CAUGHT cheating... are you denying they cheated????? Why is it an insult to talk about the "facts"... Are you saying that everybody should ignore the FACT that you got caught...

Just for the record:
Not all the facts you think are facts are actually facts.

[Ming]

Originally posted by The Vagabond
Not all the facts you think are facts are actually facts.

While that may indeed be the case... it is a FACT that they got caught cheating

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by The Vagabond


No, the French are good people, if somewhat misguided. Unfortunately, some of their women are a little bit hysteric. Blame Canada!

Don't blame us! To quote Ray Jutkins:

Canadians are a simple, happy, child-like people; living in peace and harmony in the perpetual twilight of their frozen land. Crime is unknown in their nomadic villages. They hunt and fish with implements they carve themselves out of the scarce wood they encounter in their wanderings, and many an explorer from our "superior" "sophisticated" society has found comfort and hospitality in their igloos

[Bereta_Eder]

And they like something where people fevereshly scrap ice like deranged monkeys in heat and they call it a "sport" - curling to be precise.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Don't blame us! To quote Ray Jutkins:

Canadians are a simple, happy, child-like people; living in peace and harmony in the perpetual twilight of their frozen land. Crime is unknown in their nomadic villages. They hunt and fish with implements they carve themselves out of the scarce wood they encounter in their wanderings, and many an explorer from our "superior" "sophisticated" society has found comfort and hospitality in their igloos

Then what the hell are you doing in figure skating? As paiktis22 pointed out, curling would be much more natural for you.