Comments on: Stephen Colbert and Dick’s Move: Controversy Surrounding Access to Olympic Facilities http://cholocan.com/2009/11/stephen-colbert-dick-move/ Standing at the Corner of Media and Culture Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:13:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Wah http://cholocan.com/2009/11/stephen-colbert-dick-move/comment-page-1/#comment-688 The Wah Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:53:09 +0000 http://cholocan.com/?p=307#comment-688 Finn Halverson and Dick Pound should be fired. This is outrageous behavior, particularly in elite speedskating where international cooperation is the norm. It's not just the U.S. skaters and coaches that are complaining. You denied the German LT team ice time. Well, it was not so much a denial, it was a flat out lie. The old "we never received your request" trick. The Germans spent 3 days peering into the Richmond oval in advance of World Cup Finals in SLC to no avail. All the way from Germany and no ice... How's that for dickishness? There are other equally unsportsmanlike and ugly stories... What used to be a spirit of international cooperation among skaters and coaches has been shattered. Canadian Olympic medalist Kevin Crockett, the current Chinese LT coach, told the Toronto Star, "I think Finn Halvorsen started this (crappy) attitude that's spread like cancer amongst the Canadians. The Canadian athletes have kind of inherited this (crappy) attitude. They all believe they actually have an advantage and, in the meantime, they're not acting like Canadians. There's no fairness, there's no fair play here, there's nothing like that." Maybe, just maybe, there is something rotten going on in Richmond.... Finn Halverson and Dick Pound should be fired. This is outrageous behavior, particularly in elite speedskating where international cooperation is the norm. It’s not just the U.S. skaters and coaches that are complaining. You denied the German LT team ice time. Well, it was not so much a denial, it was a flat out lie. The old “we never received your request” trick. The Germans spent 3 days peering into the Richmond oval in advance of World Cup Finals in SLC to no avail. All the way from Germany and no ice… How’s that for dickishness? There are other equally unsportsmanlike and ugly stories… What used to be a spirit of international cooperation among skaters and coaches has been shattered.

Canadian Olympic medalist Kevin Crockett, the current Chinese LT coach, told the Toronto Star, “I think Finn Halvorsen started this (crappy) attitude that’s spread like cancer amongst the Canadians. The Canadian athletes have kind of inherited this (crappy) attitude. They all believe they actually have an advantage and, in the meantime, they’re not acting like Canadians. There’s no fairness, there’s no fair play here, there’s nothing like that.”

Maybe, just maybe, there is something rotten going on in Richmond….

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