Hey Sisterplum - they really DID say that - the Russians are blaming NBC and the other media for fueling the controversey - you should have heard them on 'Today' this morning (funnily enough, they said this on 'CBS This Morning')

OptimistPrime - no, the athletes were not part of the scandal - but don't think they haven't been aware that this crap has been going on for years - there was just nothing that they could do about it. This just happens to be the first time the judges got caught with their pants around their knees ... ;)


I couldn't be more proud of Jamie and David - the class and dignity that they have conducted themselves has made this whole country proud - gold, silver, or bronze!!

At least we got our butts kicked in hockety in this round and not the medal round - what a horrid 2nd period !

I swear to god I thought you guys would beat everyone big time. I'm talking blowouts except for maybe czech. All I can say is wow.

...yeah well as shala said it's better to play horrid at the beginning...WHAT A DISGRACE! I couldn't believe what i was watching there, although left out in no-mans-land, cujo was terrible...no in fact every player on the team was brutal - brew, scotty, blake, fleury, iglina and peca.

BrooklineU, and others...

THE COLD WAR IS OVER!!! THE COMUNISTS ARE NOT TRYING TO TAKE AWAY ANYTHING FROM ANYBODY, BECAUSE IN RUSSIA, THEY DON'T EXIST ANYMORE....THEY TRIED TO COME BACK, YELTSIN CRUSHED THEM now....the medalisists from russia proably had no idea what was going on...They were awarded a medal and then everybody said "NO WE DON'T WANT TO BE THEM" it doesn't matter who gets it. The Olypics are suposed to be not political, but IRan was announced as part of the axis of evil. HOW MUCH MORE POLITICAL CAN YOU POSIBLY GET???? Jesus H f n christ. Let it go...we won the cold war...get over it. And as for IRan, they tried to be moderate and democratic a long time ago, but the US gave them the shah, then were suprised that they hated us. Now they are trying to be less extrimist but do we help the ones that got that hard fought victory...NO!!!! WE SAY SCREW YOU ARAB AND WE STILL DON'T HELP THEM...GUESS WHAT ELSE...MOST OF THE TERRORISTS WERE EUROPEAN. HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY JUSTIFY RACIAL PROFILLING....YOU BETTER PULL ME OVER BECAUSE THE ATTACKS WERE MOST LIKELY PURPRATATED BY A WHITE GUY...that is why i say that i don't try to be overly patriotic...i love my freedom..and what ever stands for that freedom...when something starts to not mean that freedom anymore...i cannot in good conscioucse supoort

It would be interesting to see in the future if the Russian skaters move to the U.S. like many other former Olympians.