Word: disonischenko
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...made of stronger, not necessarily better, clay. At the same Olympic parade, such as Montreal's in 1976, the likes of the glorious Shun Fujimoto and the notorious Boris Onischenko can march into the sunlight together. The Soviet army's Major Onischenko came forever to be known as Disonischenko after the fencing segment of the modern pentathlon, when a battery was discovered in his nose cone. Like a burp at a banquet, Boris' epee went off by itself and beeped a phantom touche. The major was briskly spirited away to the U.S.S.R...
...Disonischenko is a little hard to reach these days, but Fujimoto doesn't mind updating his emotions in the calm light of all the years that have passed. Was it worth it? Would he still take to the rings? "No!" he shrieks...
...cheater was turned up?where else??in the modern pentathlon, General Patton's Olympic event, recalling the Soviet pentathlete Boris Onischenko, renamed "Disonischenko" eight years ago when he hot-wired his sword in Montreal. The chicanery of Sweden's Roderick Martin last week was less elaborate, trying to catch up on a neglected target by squeezing off two shots quickly...
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