Just check out what happened in the 1914 Sarajevo Games whose opening ceremony was Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination.
Because what followed is a pretty accurate depiction of what happens any time the world gets together for anything.
And so it is with the Olympics generally.
It’s just a matter of degrees.
The list is endless.
International controversies are every bit as much a part of the Olympics as Track or Field.
Upon review, Chiles earned full credit for the leap and it was a medal-making difference.
They made a mistake.
Maybe they were told there’d be no math in Olympic judging or whatever.
It’s just that the “everyone” doesn’t include the one who lost that medal.
Or the ones who give them out.
They feel like their opinion is the only one that counts, and they want it back.
Beginning with landing that Gogean thing.
And continuing on with telling the IOC they can go IO-piss up a rope.
Committee President Alexander Zhukov said it was not an easy process.
Because of some technicality.
A mess up on their part.
Because someone claimed that the coach’s appeal came a few seconds late.
See how that works out for you.
We’re a nation of 330 million all too willing to defend our own.
And we’ve got nukes we’re not afraid to use.
He wrote, “I credit Hogan with five.
Because the trophy they gave him in 1942 looks just like all the others.”
And it’s no less authentic just because some whiny Romanian and some sketchy bureaucrats say it is.
