Tag Archives: Vancouver
So that's what happens to Olympic funding in Russia (surprise! corruption!)
Since I seem to be on an Olympics kick this week — or, rather, a why-Russia-bombed-in-Vancouver kick — let’s continue with this story: A high-ranking Russian athletics official has been arrested for demanding a hefty slice off a government disbursement … Continue reading
Olympics may be over, but the heads are just starting to roll – kinda
Watching the unfurling, confused hysteria at the highest levels of the Kremlin over Russia’s disappointing medal count in Vancouver, you’d think Russia had lost the latest world war. On Monday, President Dmitry Medvedev denounced unnamed “fat cats” and demanded those … Continue reading
Plushenko shows flashes of delusion, platinum, then a little less delusion
On Monday, Yahoo! News reported that Evgeni Plushenko, who took gold in men’s sniveling at Vancouver last week, was actually feeling all better because he had simply changed his frame of reference: he gave himself a platinum medal. That’s right. … Continue reading
