Spirit of the Olympics. Reuters reports that:

Svetlana Khorkina, who was second to American Carly Patterson in the women's all-round gymnastics competition, accused the judges of robbing her of the gold medal. "Everything was decided in advance. I'm just furious," Khorkina said.

Khorkina somehow concluded that judges from different countries decided to award an undeserving American a medal based not on ability but nationality. Is that believable?
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Perhaps miss bitch has another basis for her feelings about judging today: "[Gymnastics] should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanical tumbling." Oh, so maybe the American girl was superior on "mechanical tumbling", while Khorkhina (according to herself) was superior on "grace, elegance and beauty". If you don't like the way judging is done, Your Loveliness, perhaps you shouldn't subject yourself to being judged by barbarians who can't appreciate how inexpressibly beautiful your athleticism is.
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President Putin should rebuke little miss bitch very publicly and say that she disgraces Russia. Russia is a great country, and deserves better representation abroad than little miss bitch has given it. She doesn't even have the excuse of extreme youth to explain her childish whining, since these are her third Olympics, so she is child no longer.
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I stopped watching the Olympics decades ago. The pretense that it brings out the best in people and promotes international cooperation is so much balderdash, and it's refreshing, in its way, to hear some athlete twit bitch and moan about unfairness. What's unfair, missy, is that while other people have to work for a living, you have spent your entire life doing nothing of any conceivable use, like the bulk of Olympic athletes. Working people are supposed to respect useless athlete parasites who waste hours a day on useless physical activity that accomplishes nothing, while they have to do the real work of society, building the housing, running the assembly lines, teaching children, nursing injured and sick people, tending to the elderly, chasing down criminals, and all the thousands of other occupations that useful people pursue? I don't think so. Society needs a purgative to rid itself of athletic parasites. We need to show our contempt for useless lives and worthless exertions for empty, fleeting glory. Shut down the Olympics. Permanently.
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 9:29 PM