Word: romanians
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...Drug scandal hits track and field as well as the Romanian women's all-around gymnastic champion...
...story that leads some to call these Olympics the "Dope Games," several track and field athletes are revealed as having tested positive for banned substances. Andreea Raducan, the Romanian gymnast who had won the coveted women's all-around event, is stripped of her gold medal for using another banned substance, found in cold medicine she took during the games...
...wasn't the only case that brought tears, either. Did you hear about the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast Andrea Raducan? She had to give back a gold medal because she took cold medicine for the sniffles - medicine a coach had given her. "We have applied the law," said IOC director general Fran?ois Carrard. "In the fight against doping we have to be tough and refrain from emotions and feelings." Sometimes that's hard...
...stop about Bela Karolyi and how much better off they were without his dictatorial tactics-which didn't seem too convincing an argument when every single one of their seven asses hit the blue mats at some point over the course of the competition. Without Bela and his Romanian discipline, the American cause is hopeless. My blockmate disagrees: "They're normal, healthy chicks, unlike the Russian and Romanian peasant girls. Those gymnasts don't go to school and they just practice all day to escape their misery. I'd choose freedom over a gold medal any day." Whatever. I certainly...
...heart goes out to "former" all-around champion Andreea Raducan. The Romanian pixie flounced and bounced her way into our hearts by soaring through all four events at the individual competition with the energy of Peter Pan and the grace of Comaneci. And she smiled the whole way through! When's the last time you saw a gymnast smile? (And not that fake, toothy thing they do for the judges after they finish a routine-you know the smile that accompanies the pose that looks vaguely like the pee-pee dance?) Of course, the IOC being the vigilant, honest folk...