Friday, August 27, 2004
Easy For Me To SayIf I'm Paul Hamm, I'd give the medal back. Why would I want to keep something so tainted? Why would I want something that I really didn't win? Of course, being me, I wouldn't just give it back. I'd throw it in the faces of those pricks at the FIG (why do these governing bodies always have French names anyway?). Only after it had been suitably defaced of course. I liked the response by USOC secretary general Jim Scherr to the request by FIG president Bruno Grandi, that Hamm give the medal to South Korea's Yang Tae-young "as the ultimate demonstration of fair play." In a letter back to Grandi, USOC secretary general Jim Scherr called the request "a blatant and inappropriate attempt on the part of (FIG) to once again shift responsibility for its own mistakes and instead pressure Mr. Hamm into resolving what has become an embarrassing situation for your federation."
"The USOC finds this request to be improper, outrageous and so far beyond the bounds of what is acceptable that it refuses to transmit the letter to Mr. Hamm," the letter said. The entire "Olympic Movement" is nothing but a sham. It's all about the bucks folks.In a related story, I see that the overpaid, underachieving team of NBA crybabies just got their asses handed to them by Argentina. Argentina. Let me say that again. ARGENTINA.  I just shows to go you that you can't just slap together a bunch of individual stars at the last minute and hope to make them into a team. I for one am shedding no tears over this loss. The Olympics are about nothing but hype, politics, corporate greed and corruption. Come to think of it, wasn't that just the kind of thing that killed the ancient Olympics? One last note. The last thing that I want is for New York City to host the Olympics. Doesn't this town have a big enough bulls-eye painted on it for terrorists already without adding the Olympics to the equation? File under From The Sports Desk. 8:37:29 PM  Go ahead, make my day [] trackback []
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