>at the cost of being accused of doug's "anti-americanism", i must
>say that the winter olympics and its coverage have done nothing but
>enforce the lack of it (sportsmanship): after a couple of days of
>speculating on whether "north america" would take the pair skating
>gold away from russia, yesterday's result was summed up as
>"controversial" by american media and blown out of proportion.
I'm entirely comfortable with that brand of "anti-Americanism." Pound away, comrade.
Doug