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PatSeg

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11. You know what is a real shame?

Reply to onetexan (Reply #8)

Sun Feb 24, 2019, 01:32 PM

Feb 2019

Historically Russians have excelled at so many things, art, music, dance, athletics, yet they still feel a need to cheat. How sad. Without their many asshole leaders, they are an extraordinary people.

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McCabe: Rigged 2002 Olympic Skating Possible Link to Trump [View all] mucifer Feb 2019 OP

The Rule of Nance Sedona Feb 2019 #1

We're a long way from the days when we said, don't attribute to Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #7

Malcolm is the best! Duppers Feb 2019 #9

K&R... spanone Feb 2019 #2

Whoa. zentrum Feb 2019 #3

Whoa is right onetexan Feb 2019 #4

Seems to be a lot of Russians PatSeg Feb 2019 #5

no doubt, though at the time i was a big fan of the Russian pair Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze's skating onetexan Feb 2019 #8

You know what is a real shame? PatSeg Feb 2019 #11

exactly - @the Sochi olympics it was clear there was rampant Russian cheating/doping onetexan Feb 2019 #12

Yes PatSeg Feb 2019 #13

Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Tergenev, Chekhov. zentrum Feb 2019 #14

Tons of pressure on Russians to win the pairs event Awsi Dooger Feb 2019 #16

agree, the whole figure skating championships, as well as the Olympics, are pretty much a farce onetexan Feb 2019 #17

That 2014 women's result was a travesty Awsi Dooger Feb 2019 #18

I don't believe in most coincidences, either. Honeycombe8 Feb 2019 #6

I only don't believe in coincidences when I want to believe something I don't have evidence for. hughee99 Feb 2019 #10

K&R UTUSN Feb 2019 #15