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Old 02-26-2010, 08:31 AM
 
Location: 38°14′45″N 122°37′53″W
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Sheesh.
The idiot AP reporter couldn't even be bothered to look up the word ZAMBONI???!!!

And instead chose the clunky phrase:

"Rebecca Johnston actually tried to drive the ice-resurfacing machine."

They won, they celebrated. No story.

Good lawdy, must've been a really sloooooow day at the AP.
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Old 02-26-2010, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Land of debt and Corruption
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Wow, will the stupidity never end? Who cares? They won and celebrated about it. Good grief, when did the IOC become the behavior police?
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Old 02-26-2010, 08:40 AM
 
Location: Riverside, CA
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They just won the gold! Let them have their fun. Most of these players are not millionaire sports figures. They work hard for 4 years for a chance to win a medal. A cigar and a couple beers are well deserved.
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Old 02-26-2010, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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poulin looks like me or any other canadian during the games hockey and a cold molson canadian go hand in hand plus
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Old 02-26-2010, 09:24 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Wasn't there underage drinking going on!
The horror....the horror........
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Old 02-26-2010, 10:50 AM
 
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Are these not the same group (the IOC) that get perks like prostitutes and get payoffs of other sorts in exchange for olympic bids (see Salt Lake City games ).

And they are worried about THIS?

Hypocrites
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Old 02-26-2010, 10:58 AM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Strange - I saw Julia Mancuso pop open a bottle of champagne at the bottom of the GS course yesterday and nobody even mentioned it.
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Old 02-26-2010, 11:01 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Champagne is properly high class. Beer, even Molsons, is not.
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Old 02-26-2010, 11:07 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Originally Posted by Mike from back east View Post
...they're the bomb and deserve their celebration.
Absolutely!
The IOC needs to back off.
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Old 02-26-2010, 11:08 AM
 
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
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And yet US snowboarder was sent home because he posed for a photo in which a woman bent over to put the medal in her mouth while at a party outside the Olympic venue. These women went back to the locker room and came back out on the ice in uniform with beer and cigars or blunts. They did this in the Olympic hockey stadium. The Olympics are within their right to issue a judgement on the team for their behavior at their venue. Judging by some of the photos, I have to wonder if it was tobacco they were smoking on the ice. I was especially impressed with the photo of the two women laying on the ice side by side with one girl holding the cigar to the mouth of the other girl. Real classy.
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