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Russia’s President Not Happy With Olympic Performance
by Paul on 03/01/10 at 09:24 AM ET
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via Russia Today,
President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to make sure Russia’s Olympic team learns a bitter lesson from Vancouver, where it had one of its worst performances in the history of the winter games.
Medvedev said the Olympic Games revealed flaws in the training system which must be addressed before Sochi 2014.
“Taking into consideration all that happened in Vancouver, we have to change our methods of training drastically. We’ve been living on Soviet resources for a long time, but it’s over now. We do make a huge investment in sport, but money’s not everything. Those responsible for preparing Russian athletes for the Olympics have to make a brave decision and resign. And if they don’t, we’ll help them to do it. But the most important thing now is the preparation for the 2014 Olympics,” Medvedev said.
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Can you imagine the panic it would (rightfully) cause if an American president publicly demanded the resignation of sports executives over a single lost event and threatened to make them resign if they didn’t?
Posted by steve on 03/01/10 at 01:39 PM ET
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It’s simple Russia:
Develop some world-class defensemen. You have none right now.
Oh, and ditch the crappy KHLers who don’t know how to play real hockey. Not saying all of the KHLers were bad, but some were terrible and shouldn’t have been there.
Posted by Primis on 03/01/10 at 12:43 PM ET