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Bad Will Games, or What About Your Hemoglobin
Monday, February 25, 2002
(16:57)
Vladislav Krayev
Rosbalt News Agency
St. Petersburg

P. S. Today, while I write this, I do not know yet what the Russians vs. Americans ice hockey game in the semi-finals will be like, a Canadian referee in charge. What I know, however, is that there will be plenty of hemoglobin in the blood of all Russians and that is a good thing to clear up Coca-Cola-flooded brains.

Why is it we are so slow getting what we are told? Far from the first time, quite openly, Russia has been told her people belong in a special reservation for economically and mentally underdeveloped nations. Yet we are not getting it, no matter how they try! Possibly, in our childhood, we were taught too long the outdated Soviet notions concerning sports and honest competition being synonyms. Now we are being taught the full Olympic version of the opposite! When on the first day of the Olympic games in the Mormon country, Larisa Lazutina, looking into a TV camera, honestly told about fazed degenerates in uniforms who, in the state of anti-terrorist psychosis, had crowded locker rooms of Russia's female athletes, digging through personal effects and doing other things just short of breaking into occupied shower cabins, there was a thought the kindly hosts might not like her being so 'ungrateful'. And look at them! They did not forget. Just think of it, they found hemoglobin in Lazutina's blood! Just think of it, her blood was red! Of course, that could have been the result of the insufficient level of Coca-Cola in it.

Our 'Olympic mentors' had failed to purge that 'imperial' red hemoglobin from the blood of Russia's athletes who continued competing honestly where everything had been long bought and sold. What is there to be surprised about if the very location of the Olympic games had been bought and sold for bribes so large it simply had to come out! Who says simple judges who depend on their national organizations, international federations and the International Olympic Committee should have been more conscientious and incorruptible that the International Olympic Committee itself?

As God is my witness, I did not want to write about this, yet there's been too great a load of all kinds of everything! I dare say, deep in his or her heart, every Russian citizen has a bunch of scars on his or her national pride inflicted by so-called 'biased judges'.

My personal list of such scars begins with the hard to forget soccer game, USSR vs. Belgium, in Mexico City, in 1986. Then our brilliant 'Kiev' team of stars was most dishonestly thrown out of competition through the efforts of the Spanish referee. After the game, I saw terrible sadness in the eyes of Igor Belanov, who had so many times thrown himself against the embrasure that had kept firing bullets because someone had paid for it. The same sadness I later saw so many times in the eyes of so many our very best athletes. Today, for God knows which time, I saw that sadness in the eyes of Larisa Lazutina the skier and Ira Slutskaya, my favorite figure skater. I have very few words left, yet there are plenty of bad emotions. My fists clench involuntarily and the level of hemoglobin in my blood shoots up. 'Olympics as the school of hatred' sounds truly terrible. Yet this is exactly what the organizers of Olympics have managed to turn the games into by treating our athletes the way they do.
(More: Pravda News Source)
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Methinks Vlad needs to cut back on the caffine.

Dan