Incredibly off topic!! LOL..
That gold medal wasn't "pirated"... The judges fixed the results! One of the few
times that good fortune PRE-JUDGED & AWARDED simply due to who-you-know has been
pointed out, and dealt with
(wimpily, though)
> Mickey Trageser wrote:
>
> > The games were humming along as they usually do when something happened.
> > People took notice. Why? Because something was stolen. Well, not really
> > stolen, but aquired incorrectly. It seemed that for so long, one team had
> > such a legacy of winning an event that their judges and backers thought they
> > should have the gold this year too - even though they didn't earn it. Their
> > team's performance was imperfect. Oh, they tried very hard. But another team
> > performed perfectly. Flawlessly. This other upstart team had surely earned
> > the gold. But through collusion and unfair tactics, the silver was given to
> > the better performers. An uproar was heard the world over. How could this
> > happen? This must not happen. We must fix it. And so it was. The team whose
> > performance deserved gold, recieved it. And what of the other team? Oh, they
> > still have the gold that was awarded. They were told they could keep it. But
> > somehow, the pirated gold doesn't have the same lustre. Nor do their owners.
> >
> > There's been such a buzz about it that now the whole thing is just old. We
> > should give it a rest. It's OFF-TOPIC.
> >
> > Mickey
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