On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Jon Louis Mann wrote: >> >>>> I bow down to the Chinese volleyball girls, >>> >>> Err... They were blasted 3 x 0 by the Brazilian volleyball >>> girls :-P >> >> missed that, congrats to brazil!~) >> > It was the first time the girls won the gold medal. They didn't > even win it at the Pan american games, here in Rio - they lost > to the archnemesis Cuba team.
Speaking of Cuba and sore losers, did anybody see idiot Tae Kwon Do sore-loser Ángel Matos kick the referee in the face after being disqualified for taking too much injury time? He earned himself -- and his unapologetic coach -- lifetime bans from the sport. I understand Matos' frustration at getting a DQ while he was winning. The injury he sustained is a common one in lower-level sparring: two kicks, or a kick and a block, collide painfully. But the World TKD Federation (WTF -- love the acronym) rules in effect at the Olympics only allow a minute of injury rest time, and Matos exceeded it. Nonetheless, every martial artist, learns that the sport is not about being Chuck Norris, but about respect, discipline and self-control. Dave In Soviet Cuba, kick judges you! Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
