Angry Wrestler Stripped of Bronze Medal!

[ThatsMyBarack]

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/wrestling/news?slug=ap-wre-medalstripped&prov=ap&type=lgns

[L0oniX]

1. He should contact World Wrestling Entertainment for a job.

[donco6]

2. He was pretty much an ass.

I mean, he dropped his medal on the mat - you have to assume he didn't want it anyway.

[Booster]

3. Contrast what this idiot did to what Dara Torres did and it's easy

to see who is a true Olympian hero. He deserved to be stripped of his medal.

[AnnieBW]

4. Sportsmanship

Yr doing it wrong.

[kestrel91316]

5. Fitting punishment for his disgraceful unsportsmanlike conduct.

[The Straight Story]

6. I thought the title was: Angry Stripper wrestled for bronze medal

Now that would be a good read :)

[itsrobert]

7. Screw the Olympics

This guy spends all his life to compete for the Gold Medal and he gets screwed over. At least he thought so. Fuck all the high and mighty people who sit on their high horses judging him for having emotions.

[Dreamer Tatum]

10. It was a hissy fit, not "emotions"

Study the tape.

[itsrobert]

11. Hissy fit?

Stop judging. What is a Hissy fit? Emotion. A human trait

[Dreamer Tatum]

12. I'm just trying to imagine the outcry if an American did it

So I am not very moved.

[Malikshah]

8. What's more unsportsmanlike? The judging is highly suspect at these games

and has been at others.

I'm wondering why folks somehow think it is unsportsmanlike to protest (it does not happen very often, and nine times out of ten when it does, there is a valid reason) fixed scores and the very unsportsmanlike conduct of the judges.

These judges are not being held accountable.

And remember in 1968 who had their medals stripped for holding up their fists....

So who's being unsportsmanlike? The IOC who's allowed China to put prepubescent girls into Gymnastics and unknowns into swimming (who then medal...) or athletes who will not go quietly into that good night....

Bravo for the Swedish wrestler. Stand up. Be proud and stop accepting authority blindly.

I think he teaches folks a better lesson than those who just go along to get along.

[pokerfan]

13. "violating the spirit of fair play"

That's pretty rich considering what some of these Olympic judges are getting away with.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. Eh, it was pretty clear that he didn't want it anyway.

I can understand being angry at the judging and filing protests or making statements to the press about it but throwing the medal on the ground right after the ceremony is a childish response.