Ruffled, Russian Bear's "Pravda" Takes a Nasty Swipe at Canada

[leroi]

Placing this here in "Radio Chatter" because it's so ridiculous, I could only laugh after reading (can you say poor loser?)

~Note the author refers to Canada as a "county" not a country and it was written before Canada trounced the mens' team in hockey (GO CANADA!!!)

Vancouver: Mutton Dressed as Lamb

http://english.pravda.ru/sports/games/19-02-2010/112308-vancouver_mutton-0

(Reproduced in accordance with the Fair Dealing provision, 29, of the Copyright Act.)

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
Pravda.Ru: Feb. 19, 2010

We all knew it weeks before the game started, with accusations about doping being levelled at Russian athletes, and we all saw it on day one of the games, with the death of a Georgian athlete on a corner which miraculously was elevated the following day. Vancouver is not fit to hold the Winter Olympic.

Far from being a question of sour grapes, Russian commentators were already expressing their reservations as to the integrity of the Vancouver Lobby being able to host the Olympic Games weeks before the start. After all the IOC was starting to fire off in all directions before the first aircraft arrived.

We already have the case of a Russian skier being hounded to produce a urine sample after qualifying for a race, and if she had given the sample, she would not have had the possibility of entering the following round. Natalya Korosteleva was asked to provide a urine sample during a half-hour pause between the quarter-finals and semi-finals of a skiing event. “This seems against all the rules,” she stated, as she refused to have the sample taken, alleging that if she did, she would not have had time to continue in the next phase. Why her?

We all know Canada has problems with the future lines drawn on Arctic maps and we all know Canada lives in the shadow of its larger neighbour to the south. The abject cruelty shown by Canadian soldiers in international conflicts is scantily referred to, as indeed is the utter incapacity of this county to host a major international event, due to its inferiority complex, born of a trauma being the skinny and weakling bro to a beefy United States and a colonial outpost to the United Kingdom, whose Queen smiles happily from Canadian postage stamps.

Maybe it is this which makes the Canadians so…retentive, or cowardly. So it is not exactly a huge surprise to have international skating experts from the four corners of the Earth criticising the decision to award the Men’s figure skating Gold medal to the US athlete Evan Lysacekv over the reigning Olympic Champion Evgeny Plushenko, whose superior performance was inexplicably ignored.

As Plushenko explains, “I did a great short program but did not get the marks I deserved. When I asked why, they told me I was skating early and they had to retain top marks for the last group…Then in the free program, I was the last to skate, did everything clean and still didn’t get the marks”.

Everybody who knows anything about Olympic skating, Winter Olympic sports and international politics will infer from the pitiful and dangerous conditions provided by the Canadian authorities, which already caused one death, that Vancouver is mutton dressed as lamb. Take off the outer veneer and the stench is horrific.

It is a surprise that any Russian athlete would wish to remain in that sort of environment for a second longer.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

There's a case of sour grapes allright, or may be I should say "sour grapeski."

 

[brandon_]

someone jealous, I wonder how he felt after last night.    ;D

 

[Kat Stevens]

Well if it's in Pravda, that bastion of fair and balanced journalism, it has to be true.  I agree, all the Russian competitors should leave Vancouver... is yesterday too soon?

 

[OldSolduer]

Well if it's in Pravda, that bastion of fair and balanced journalism, it has to be true.  I agree, all the Russian competitors should leave Vancouver... is yesterday too soon?

I hear there's a hockey team that was a little red faced after being trounced by Team Canada. What's the excuse now?

Alexander the Invisible and Marshmallow Malkin couldn't get it done, pure and simple.

 

[Dennis Ruhl]

The abject cruelty shown by Canadian soldiers in international conflicts is scantily referred to,

Thanks to Taliban Jack and Count Iggy for their continuing attack on the Canadian Forces as reflected by Pravda (The Truth) in the article.  The Russians do not have problems with prisoners.  They don't take any.  How are the trials of the Chechens in the school and theatre hostage takings going? Unfortunately they were all killed resisting arrest, some apparently resisting multiple times, with only the backs of their heads exposed.

 

[Loachman]

Apparently, the Russians, Eastern Europeans, and others from less cruel, skinny, weak, retentive, or cowardly countries are certainly enjoying the first-rate free dental care that they're all getting, perhaps for the first time ever.

 

[kratz]

This makes some more sense now that I have read on CBC.ca where the 2014 Winter Olympics will be held. Sochi, Russia.

Apparently the Russians are doing the same thing the 2012 Summer Olympics hosts have been doing all games. Bashing Vancouver's performance in an attempt to build up their own games in a few years time.

 

[OldSolduer]

Wait for the Russian Olympics. Given their prospensity for blaming everyone else for their woes....

 

[Redeye]

What nonsense.  First of all, I don't think any of the judges who put Plushenko in second place were Canadian.  Second, from what little I saw, he deserved it.  In his second skate, he showboated like an arrogant jackass and got the score he deserved, the arrogant prick.  I can't wait to see what sort of a gong show they'll have dreamed up for Sochi.

As for the swipes at our military, wow.  Pretty rich coming from the country that brought you such blockbusters as Chechnya, the Theatre Massacre, the invasion of Georgia, etc etc.