Weir to work for NBC in Sochi; will keep mum on homophobic laws

[peddlestools]

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[drprofpatrick]

but the Olympics are not the place to make a political statement

[fromyourashes]

Exactly.

[ludmi_83]

yeah and then they got banned from the olys, took of their medal's and when they come back to america they got dead threats to them and their families.

[punishermax]

and now they're seen as national heroes

~the way things chaaaaaaange~

[ludmi_83]

yeah ik but on the time I think it was not very nice for them. They have to wait more than 30's years to be national heroes.

[satellite__eyes]

Exactly.

[peddlestools]

even the australian guy got in trouble... but he did support them and even wore an olympic project for human rights badge.

[aflaminghalo]

When he died, Smith and Carlos were pall-bearers at his funeral.

[funbeam]

a negative reaction to a political statement doesn't mean you shouldn't have done it though.

[ourferocity]

[war_machine_rox]

damn that must have been so hard for her :(

[aflaminghalo]

"After appearing to have won the gold medal on floor outright, the judging panel curiously upgraded the preliminary scores of Soviet Larisa Petrik, and declared a tie for the gold instead. All of this occurred on the heels of another very controversial judging decision that cost Čáslavská the gold on beam, instead awarding the title to Soviet rival Natalia Kuchinskaya. Clearly disheartened and angered by the politics that favored the USSR, she protested during both medal ceremonies by quietly turning her head down and away during the playing of the Soviet national anthem"

If that's true, I'm amazed that she didn't shiv someone. Fucking hell.