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Cyndalie 08-15-2008 02:37 PM
Talk about a sore loser!
 
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/new...ters&type=lgns

Quote:
Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian threw down his greco-roman bronze medal in protest on Thursday after his bid for Olympic gold was ended by a decision denounced by the Swedish coach as “politics.”

Abrahamian took the bronze from around his neck during the medal ceremony, stepped from the podium and dropped it in the middle of the wrestling mat then walked off.

“I don’t care about this medal. I wanted gold,” he said.

A bitter Abrahamian, silver medalist at Athens 2004 who had high hopes of top honors in the 84kg competition in Beijing, announced he was quitting the sport.

“This will be my last match. I wanted to take gold, so I consider this Olympics a failure,” he said

Evil Chris 08-15-2008 02:45 PM
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It's unfortunate. Apparently one of the judges made a really bad call which cost him the gold. One of those things that everyone knew who the best should have been but for the judge's mistake.

Evil E 08-15-2008 02:57 PM
Yep Chris is right, he's not a sore loser, the judge made a very bad call. If I was the CIO I would give him a honorary gold.

That guy also won Silver at Athens.

Evil Chris 08-17-2008 11:06 PM
He was "officially" stripped of his medal as well.

This is a problem in Olympic competition. If a judge messes up, the athlete generally has zero re-course in most cases.

Cyndalie 08-18-2008 03:29 PM
oh that sucks, I didn't know that.
what a shame!

Janell 08-18-2008 06:49 PM
The video is no longer available now.... I missed it.

Way3 08-18-2008 07:16 PM
Definately unfortunate, although he probably could have handled it a little better!

NicAngel 08-19-2008 05:38 PM
That has to hurt.

Slippery 08-20-2008 02:56 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Way3 (Post 147046)
Definately unfortunate, although he probably could have handled it a little better!
That's what I was going to say also. Maybe a little bit of tact may have gotten his point across much better?

emac 08-20-2008 05:26 PM
we need the judges comments. :confused::confused:


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