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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:05:18 -0400 
From: Michel Fougeres <mf0w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Fwd: CTV's Olympic Coverage Sucks! (fwd)

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Subject: Re: CTV's Olympic Coverage Sucks! (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 22:42:52 EDT
From: Michele Simond (Wonder User) <catnix!root@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
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Bonsoir Michel!

J'ai pense que ce message, diffuse' dans lun des groupes canadiens
t'amuserait.

PS:  Ca va bien?  Donne-moi de tes nouvelles.


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> From: adong@unixg.ubc.ca (Allen Dong Richard)
> Newsgroups: can.general
> Subject: Re: CTV's Olympic Coverage Sucks!
> Date: 11 Aug 92 20:26:54 GMT
> 
> In <1992Aug7.062027.9375@access.usask.ca> dzubin@skorpio.usask.ca
(Thomas Dzubin) writes:
> 
> >There was a very funny editorial cartoon in today's (Aug 6) Victoria
> >Times-Colonist newspaper...
> 
> >"WHAT HAPPENED: Lithuania wins the gold in the 4000 metre low pole vault."
> 
> >"HOW THE CANADIAN MEDIA REPORTED IT: 'Lithuania won the gold in the
4000 metre
> > low pole vault'"
> 
> >"HOW THE U.S. MEDIA REPORTED IT: 'Steroid-crazed competitors and brutal head
> > winds all contributed to our American athlete placing 60th in the
4000 metre
> > low pole vault...but we now bring you a profile of this heartbeat of
America
> > with interviews with his grade 6 teacher and his dog Max...'"
> 
> >(even without the pictures, it's funny)
> 
> ... Absolutely priceless.
> 
> However, laughs aside, I suspect that there is more than a grain of truth to
> that satirical depiction of "Amer'can" sportsmanship.  I am a volleyball
> referee who has had the "pleasure" of officiating several matches involving
> teams from the U.S.  From this direct experience, I would have to say that
> their "Whine coefficient" clearly surpasses that of Canadian teams.  The
> behaviour of the U.S. boys volleyball team at Barcelona provides direct proof
> of my premise.  Their wholly unsportsmanlike display neither impressed the
> Olympic community at large, improved their vertical jumps (due to the
decreased
> aerodynamic drag effected by their shaven heads), nor gained them any flavour
> of medal (of course, they'll blame this on the win taken away from them).  As
> I had stated in the thread about Silken Laumann, when I think about American
> sportsmanship, the words "whine" and "gripe" come to mind.
> 
> -----
> 
> Allen Dong.
> 


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