Russia whines about ‘cowardly’ Canada [Article]

From the The Toronto Star:

The next Winter Olympics is shaping up as a Cold War-style battle between Canada and Russia after a blistering editorial in Pravda labeled us as a nation of cowardly, incompetent war criminals.

The editorial, entitled Vancouver: Mutton Dressed as Lamb, goes straight for the eyes from the outset. “Vancouver is not fit to hold the Winter Olympics,” it declares in the opening paragraph.

And that was before Canada whipped Russia in the hockey quarter finals. Today, the site was less expansive.

“The Red Machine Runs into a Maple Tree,” was Pravda’s headline. Other newspaper banners across Russia included “Nightmare in Vancouver” and “Down and Out.”

Reading back on Pravda’s screed, the schadenfreude will be thick for Canadian supporters. The website’s main athletic complaint is about a short-notice drug test issued to Russian skier Natalya Korosteleva. It neglects to mention that VANOC organizers have no input into the drug-testing regime of any particular sporting body.

It also impugns us for the decision to give the gold medal in men’s figure skating to American Evan Lysacek over Russian Evgeni Plushenko – as if we had some say in that, either.

“Even more diligent critics of Vancouver 2010 have been astonished by the editorial,” the Times of London wrote today.

Last night, Russian hockey stars were being … well … Russian about their loss.

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One thought on “Russia whines about ‘cowardly’ Canada [Article]”

  1. It seems to me that this article refers to Ukraine in the same way Iran threatens to recognize Holodomor if Russia apply the sanctions proposed by Israel.

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