From MEDIAITE:
Not that there was any doubt that men’s figure skating silver medalist Evgeni Plushenko was in the running for worst sportsman of the 2012 Olympic Games before, but Plushenko, always the fierce competitor, has taken his unique ability to alter reality to new heights with his latest online antics. It seems the reason he has kept quiet in the past days, after spending a good amount of last week trashing gold medalist Evan Lysacek for not being able to perform a quadruple jump (“It’s not men’s figure skating… it’s dancing”), is that he has convinced himself that he didn’t lose a gold medal– he won a platinum one.
Yes, Plushenko [...] has overridden Olympic tradition and awarded himself a non-existent platinum medal on his website. The graphic, clearly a scan of a regular Vancouver silver, is unconvincing at best, but at least his countrymen appear to back him in asserting his dominance. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told Plushenko his “silver is worth gold,” and Russian television originally presented him with his platinum medal, with RTR host Alexei Popov telling him, “You already have one gold and one silver so here’s a platinum medal for you… You are the real champion.”
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But what are the newspapers y saying over in Russia (perhaps Princess Sarah Palin can see a Russian TV from her house)? From The Moscow Times:
VANCOUVER — Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek has hit out at Yevgeny [can't you people pick one spelling and stick with it?] Plushenko for discrediting his rivals and tainting the American’s gold medal moment with a bitter rant.
Silver medalist Plushenko said the American was “not a true champion” because he had won without performing a difficult quadruple jump, which requires great height and pace to make at least four midair rotations. The Russian did two in Vancouver.
Even Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has weighed in on the subject.
“I would like to sincerely congratulate you with the wonderful Olympic performance. Your silver is worth gold,” Putin told Plushenko in a telegram. “You were able to overcome all the obstacles in your brave comeback and performed the most accomplished program on the Vancouver ice.”
Lysacek, who said he had not yet been to sleep or taken off his medal, voiced disappointment about the debacle, which has raised questions about the fairness of the new judging system, in which skaters are given marks out of 10 rather than the previous six.
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While Plushenko, the 2006 champion who also won silver in 2002, avoided publicly congratulating his rival after Thursday’s free skate, Lysacek said they had shaken hands and that the Russian had spoken to him in private.
The debate over the quad jump has split the skaters at these games, with many like bronze medalist Daisuke Takahashi agreeing with Plushenko that it was a vital part of the sport.
Owing to the sport’s very subjective nature, athletes have often said it is hard to know what judges are actually looking for, but Thursday’s result suggested that it might be an all-around performance rather than one show-stopping moment. Whereas before, one performance was marked subjectively against another, nowadays there is a checklist for the value of every jump, spin, transition as well as a grade of execution mark that reflects how well each element was performed.
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Lysacek said he had no plans to retire, although he has not decided whether he will defend his world title next month, but he joked that he might not be the most welcome competitor when Russia hosts the next winter Games in Sochi in 2014.
“I don’t think they would love to see me there to be honest, if I could somehow get a visa into that country,” he said, smiling.
больной проигравший–According to Babelfish, that’s sore loser in Russian. (Of course, when you translate that from Russian to English, you get sick lost, so I have no idea what I really said there.)
“A Sour Grapeski Production”
I guess this is a Russian publicity stunt? I don’t know.
I do know Takahashi wasn’t cutting much of a figure with his ass on the ice. He’s lucky he got third.
did you like that, melissa? i couldn’t think of what kind of production it could be that would fit in that small space, so i figured i’d just make up my own russian word.
i agree, takahashi, with his flash-frozen little butt is no one to talk. he needs to keep his little bronze mouth shut.
wow nonnie; a bridge too far for those worthless commies. (Can I send you a Guest Blogger Application?)
if the ruskies are trying to reinvent themselves in front of the world, they’re doing a piss-poor job. i guess there’s no russian word for gracious.
(what’s a guest blogger application. i don’t know anyone who likes filling out applications, except for jon kyl, because he has one of the shortest names in the world.
)
You know what they….tiny name, tiny____.
i don’t want to spread rumors, but i’ve heard that jon kyl wears a size 3 shoe.
That’s really tiny!
Those commies stick up for each other just like Republicans…Hmmmmm…
;>)
darkblack, you missed your calling. clearly, you should be an intelligence analyst.
You’d be a bitter, bitter person all around too if you could see Sara Palin from your house.
Doesn’t excuse the platinum whine, but I’m just sayin’.
Hahahaha!
You’re right, Jax. I hadn’t thought of that.
the raisinettes are the smartest people on earth!
do you think that pootie-poo was riding around shirtless on his horsie and fishing, because he knew princess sarah was watching? i wouldn’t be surprised if she was a peeping thomsasina (is that what you call a female peeping tom? peeping tammy?). so many of those fundie holier-than-thou types are closet pervs.
Yes but can Plushenko see Alaska from HIS house??
I noticed the announcer said on his way to the Silver platform, Plushenko stepped up to the gold/highest platform.
I thought most of the men’s single skating was weird this year– lots of “evil” as Dick Button put it, dark heavy metal.
plushy is a bitter little boy. he showed no respect for anyone or anything. they should have taken his medal away from him for poor sportsmanship (or as they say in russian, poor sportsmanshipnik). the men’s skating was rather strange. i wonder if it’s the new scoring or if the skaters have a different attitude.
I have one word for Plush Toy–nekulturny.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nekulturny
i don’t know which i like better plush toy (or maybe plushtoyski) or nekulturny.
Hmmm. Mens figure skating? No, I got nothin’. Just not as exciting as trading paint down the backstretch at 200 mph. Just sayin’.
sure it’s exciting! just like the olympics in the old cold war days!
Ah, the good old times…when Soviet athletic superiority was earned the old-fashioned way – by training to pole-vault the Berlin Wall, swimming the Baltic sea to Sweden, and in the case of women’s events, relying on scientifically proven dietary additives to build grace and poise.
;>)
ahhh, those were heady days!
darkblack, your link didn’t work, and i’m dying to know what you linked to.
Sorry Nonnie, but I don’t think the WordPress format liked that link – rather long, even in the ‘linkable’ Google books ‘page view’ version.
It had to do with the Soviet proclivities for chemical ‘performance enhancement’ of their female athletes in the ’6o’s and ’70′s.
Not that other countries don’t cheat in such a disgraceful fashion – My own country had a rather large scandal in the Seoul Olympics involving Ben Johnson – but the commies took things to such ‘bearded lady’ extremes that it really was somewhat ridiculous at times.
Say, you don’t think that Sarah Palin…?
;>)
you never need apologize to me, darkblack.
i remember the scandals about “performance enhancement.” it’s nothing new. in fact, decades ago, there were men competing as women. take a look at this pic. this is dora ratjen.
Good lord, if it’s not commies stewing their womenfolk to the gills with androgen, it’s the Nazis running ladyboys in the high jump.
What a world, what a world.
;>)
it’s like faux news displaying princess sarah as though she’s a political analyst!
this thread alone was worth the price of admission
the raisinettes are the best! you were missed over here, dcAp, especially by me!