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Olympics official slams US for including gay athletes in delegation
"A senior IOC member has slammed the US for including gay athletes in its official delegation to the Olympics next month. Mario Pescante, former vice president of the International Olympics Committee, is reported to have said the US should not be promoting gay rights while in Sochi."
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/olympics-official-slams-us-including-gay-athletes-delegation160114
Yeah, we should hide them away.. like we're not proud of our brilliant Gay athletes.
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)the Olympics are a joke and the IOC is a bigger joke
is there any organization that's as corrupt as the IOC
TexasTowelie
(112,121 posts)but that's the gubernatorial administration--not the organization.
Cha
(297,154 posts)whatever it is.. and, the Christie Admin seems to have been vying for top spot for a few years now. Fortunately for us.. they overreached by miles!
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)team claims heart and passion for winning......
Cha
(297,154 posts)William769
(55,145 posts)Russia will not even begin to be free until Putin & his cronies are gone.
Cha
(297,154 posts)"absurd"? Really?
William769
(55,145 posts)Russia!
Cha
(297,154 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)bigoted. But too bad for them, fresh..
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 24, 2014, 01:13 AM - Edit history (1)
KauaiK
(544 posts)The IOC guy is an ignorant idiot.
Cha
(297,154 posts)Yes, very ignorant.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... he's trying to deflect attention away from the Olympic committee itself, since they should have either canceled or moved it to another country. Not only do we have to put up with Putin and his redneck bigots over the Gays, now all Olympians security is at stake! I personally think the whole thing should be called off. I would not put one Olympian from ANY country in possible harms way. How many fucking omens do they need???
Cha
(297,154 posts)exposed, ReRe!
Are there any grown-ups left on this planet? Putin should have called it off, himself. I will come unglued if one little hair on any visitor's head is TOUCHED.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...the exploitation of the concept of ''world-wide understanding through participation and competition in sports,'' but only so long as your sexual partners meet Olympic Committee approval, first. Hmmm, I guess non-heterosexuals lose all their points on the mounts and dismounts.
- What a wanker.....
K&R
napkinz
(17,199 posts)the story behind it:
Cha
(297,154 posts)I watch the vids tomorrow!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)that the athletes could make to show their support for Russia's LGBT population. Something powerful, like the fist pump from the 1968 Olympics.
Cha
(297,154 posts)watch.. I'm out the door soon.. but, wouldn't a fist pump work.
Or?...
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)There were calls for a boycott of the 36 Berlin games, for obvious reasons. The Committee was not supportive. They sent a representative, Avery Brudage, to Germany who reported dutifully that there was no discrimination in Germany against Jews or anyone else and concluded that the stories of oppression were bogus, a creation of a conspiracy to hurt Hilter's reputation, a conspiracy of the communists and the Jews!
So we went. The school books tell us of Jesse Owens, of whom we should be proud, but the books do not bother to mention the only two Jewish athletes on the US Team, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, who were pulled from competition on the day of their race by Brundage.
We did not allow our Jewish athletes to compete that day. Later, there were events such as 'WW2' and 'the Holocaust' which demonstrated how wrong those who refused to boycott had been.
Johonny
(20,833 posts)I like the Olympics but man the IOC has been caught taking bribes so many times... screw them.
Cha
(297,154 posts)the time.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I'm glad he said it, though.
He'll go down in history as one of the World's Intolerant Dickheads, a "last gasper" of an Age of Intolerance. Everything he has done to this point will be subsumed by this DUMBASS remark. Everything he's built his life and reputation on is swept away. All that stands for his lifetime of effort is this "I am a bigoted idiot" comment.
Enjoy your ignominious place in history, Mario! You are, indeed, an ASSHOLE!
Cha
(297,154 posts)I approve of that message!