Cheating Russians

[Kaak]

KH: I think it's more that they aren't given all the facts. They are led to believe what the gov'ts want them to believe. Did you see that CNN poll about Osama? most arabs don't think that he did it, even though there is video evidence to prove it...

[KrazyHorse]

Vagabond lives in the States.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Man, you're a nutjob. I'm also rapidly beginning to believe that your country is inhabited entirely by nutjobs as well.

Depending on what the hell "nutjob" means, I am either too much of a nutjob or too little of a nutjob to understand its meaning.

Moreover, since recently, I am not even sure what the meaning of the word "is" is.


Edit: I am starting to understand

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by RedFred
I think it is sad to see that many of the Russians still seem so caught up in the ideological battles of the cold war.

There is absolutely nothing ideological in the Russian protests.

I am also sad to see that they seem so bent on making themselves international laughingstocks.

Those who don't protest against the unfair treatment also end up in the international laughingstocks. It's the destiny anyways.

"We protest this. We protest that. We protest sound, scientifically valid doping tests. We protest when you test more of our athletes for drugs than we expected. We protest when you catch our athletes at doping at inconvenient times. We protest reform of Olympic judging, let us stick with the old corrupt set up. We protest that we played very badly for the first two periods against the Americans in hockey. We protest our victory over the Czechs - oops! wait a minute! that last one was a mistake! If things don't always go the way we want them we will pick up all our marbles and go home."

You seem to forget that it is you, the Canadians, who started all this.

Perhaps this whole 'protest' thing is as the first poster suggested, a classic case of somebody deciding that the best defence is a good offence. I just wish the Russians had figured that out in the first period of the hockey game against the US, instead of not waking up until the third period when they really started to play some fine hockey.

Completely agree with you about hockey. In retrospect, it seems quite clear that the final game Canada-Russia would have been much more interesting.

[Serb]

Well done The Vagabond

You've gain few points for us.
I think we started to win slightly.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Kaak
KH: I think it's more that they aren't given all the facts. They are led to believe what the gov'ts want them to believe.

It seems that it's you who wants to believe what you want to believe. Russia is a free country since long ago.

Did you see that CNN poll about Osama? most arabs don't think that he did it, even though there is video evidence to prove it...

Do you seriously believe that people of different backgrounds should arrive at exactly the same conclusions upon receiving the same piece of information?

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Kaak
serb, i realize i'm an american, but i'm not that ignorant of geography! I like cities better anyway. Big ones. with lot's of hot chicks. Perhaps you can come visit me in moscow or St. Petersburg

I've been in the Siberian capital Novosibirsk a couple of times. I confirm, the summers there can be really hot. And so are the chicks .

[Kaak]

Do you seriously believe that people of different backgrounds should arrive at exactly the same conclusions upon receiving the same piece of information?

Well, I think that people of any number of backgrounds should be able to agree on a guilty party when that party agrees that they did it, and tells what they were thinking when they planned it...

[Serb]

Originally posted by The Vagabond


Technicality? If a proof of a crime is obtained in an illegal way, it is dismissed, isn't it?

Besides, the very fact that after checking the first skier of the team they (illegally!) checked the second one nicely illustrates the whole unfair attitude towards Russia.

I just want to add:
They do not found doping in her blood only hemoglobin little more then normal, and they allowed to Lazutina to run next distance on the next day, and only after last contest they found traces of doping. Next: they do not allowed to make substitution of Lazutina by other sportsman. Removal of our team was ilegal, absolutely ilegal.
They yoused a dirtiest means to remove our team, because on four previous Olympic Games our team win gold, and we have no competition in this discipline.

[Kaak]

Serb: Why would americans remove a major competitor from a sport in which we are not competitors at all? If it isn't going to be us, we don't care who wins...

[Serb]

I've never said that this case was the american's conspiracy.
Our women ski team think that it was Norge who initiated this.
But it was good for Americans too. The less medal their competitor (Russia) in overall medal acount achieved the better for them.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Kaak
If it isn't going to be us, we don't care who wins...

In other words you are agree that you care if it is going for americans.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Serb
Well done The Vagabond

You've gain few points for us.
I think we started to win slightly.

Thanks. I also believe we've made some progress.

[Harovan]

Hardly. I think most others just got tired. Who enjoys to discuss with a parrot?

[Kaak]

of course we care, but that doesn't mean we are going to fix anything...

as for:

The less medal their competitor (Russia) in overall medal acount achieved the better for them.

umm...i'll check the medal totals again, but i don't think y'all were exactly what I would label a "competitor"