[charlio lemieux]

From Yahoo:

Low blow from Russian media in wake of Olympic woes
By Neate Sager



Here you thought how nice it was that Canada and Russia could play a major international hockey game and have it just be about the game, free of geopolitical gobbledygook.

No one did a throat-slash gesture (that was us: Phil Esposito, 1972), kicked an opposing player (that was them), took out the other team's best forward (us again), started a bench-clearing brawl to get the other team kicked out of a tournament (them), or told the winning team it couldn't keep its championship trophy (ya, that was us).

It was just a sports event.

But not to Pravda, which, on the eve of the game, ripped Canada a new one. Cathal Kelly of the Toronto Star gets credit for the find: a piece by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey called, wait for it, "Vancouver: Mutton Dressed As Lamb."

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 [country] 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 [Lysacek] over the reigning Olympic Champion Evgeny Plushenko, whose superior performance was inexplicably ignored.​

*snip*​

WTF? Excuse me?

 

[VICE™]

Uh.. whaaaaat? Was the Russian article run through Google Translate or something, because parts of that are just nonsense.

Also, why exactly are they blaming Canada because Plushenko didn't win gold? I agree that he should have been given gold, because his routine was far more technically difficult, but when the ISU puts more emphasis on things that aren't technical, then how can Lysacek's gold be questioned? Russia's part of the ISU, so maybe they should lobby to make the technical component worth 70 and the other worth 30, instead of the way that it is now.

I don't see how Canada can really be blamed for this.

 

[the flying moose]

Russia and the UK have been saying stuff about Vancouver and Canada quite a bit recently and its quite funny that those two countries are holding the next two Olympics with London having the summer games in 2012 and Sochi having the winter games in 2014.

 

[Bags2]

Uh.. whaaaaat? Was the Russian article run through Google Translate or something, because parts of that are just nonsense.

Also, why exactly are they blaming Canada because Plushenko didn't win gold? I agree that he should have been given gold, because his routine was far more technically difficult, but when the ISU puts more emphasis on things that aren't technical, then how can Lysacek's gold be questioned? Russia's part of the ISU, so maybe they should lobby to make the technical component worth 70 and the other worth 30, instead of the way that it is now.

I don't see how Canada can really be blamed for this.

Those damn canadians! How could they ever play hard and try and win a game! How dare they!

 

[VICE™]

Those damn canadians! How could they ever play hard and try and win a game! How dare they!

Well, what the Canadian paper added is what's talking about the game. The italicized stuff, which I assume is the translated Russian article, isn't even about the hockey game, it's criticizing Canada for not giving their figure skater gold, yet there are nine judge nations.

:dunno:

 

[Nashvillejohn]

Canada Canada its all your fault You suck......LOL just playin

 

[beavboyz]

who cares, one guy in one paper. I was reading in another forum a thread called, congratulation Canada from Russia. It was a bunch of russian fans congratulating Canada.