Monday, February 17, 2014

A meeting to share some friendly sporting competition


And, shades of the Cold War, a protest breaks out following a perceived error by one of the officials at a hockey game.
It was the biggest demonstration so far concerning the Sochi Olympics, and it had nothing to do with gay rights, environmental damage or corruption.

Dozens of Russian fans gathered Monday outside the United States embassy in Moscow, some brandishing hockey sticks, to protest a disallowed goal scored by the Russian team in Saturday’s Olympic hockey match against the United States in Sochi, a decision that they felt cost them the game against their Cold War rivals.

A crowd of mainly students erected a large banner in front of the embassy reading, “Turn the referee into soap!”, a common Russian chant at sporting events, implying the referee is fit only to have his bones and body fat boiled down for soap.
I thought that the soap penalty was reserved for mistakes in the gold medal game. Oh well, nice banner they had.

// posted by montag @ 1:54 PM
Comments:
Pity we can't see that kind of passion about environmental concerns; I can think of much more deserving "boil 'em down" sorts than hockey referees!
# posted by Anonymous Syrbal/Labrys : 2:19 PM
 

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