Yo Lysacek, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish...
Yevgeny Plushenko, Russian superstar, lost the Men's Figure Skating gold to Evan Lysacek last week. He's been throwing a fit ever since, including stepping on the gold medal winner's platform during the award ceremony.

Today, he took the whining to another level, and awarded himself the platinum medal.

ETA: Since I submitted this yesterday, Plushenko has denied having anything to do with the medal. Also, I must have linked to the boring article with no comments. Total writeup fail, guys. D:

*awards self tin foil medal*

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	ashenmote 2010-02-24 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	What, a soap opera in my figure skating? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tofuknight 2010-02-24 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	It's more likely than you think. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	fishies 2010-02-24 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	The olympics and ONTD have gotten me into figure skating drama and oh boy is it glorious. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kylenne 2010-02-24 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	This is giving me flashbacks to the Michelle Kwan vs. Tara/Sarah whatever wanks. Or if you want to get more old school than that, Katarina Witt vs. Debi Thomas. Bitches nearly got CUT over that one, and that was just in my house. Thank god we didn't have the internet back then. Oh skating. Don't ever change. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hallidae 2010-02-24 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	Ohhhh, Michelle Kwan. I remember beating my head against a wall about the fact that some journalists apparently couldn't remember that she was American (and the biggest paper in Seattle made that mistake twice). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rose_tyler 2010-02-24 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	I've seen that done with Mirai Nagasu a couple of times as well recently. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hallidae 2010-02-24 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	Aaaaarrrrghargharghagh, that drives me up the goddamn wall. It's like the automatic assumption is "Non-English last name? Must be a foreigner!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	adevyish 2010-02-25 03:48 am UTC (link)
	How hard is it to check the little flags beside the standings!?!?! The organizers give journalists printouts of the startlist. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2010-02-25 04:18 am UTC (link)
	And Oh My God, back when the Eastern Bloc would win like, EVERYTHING EVER in skating? I didn't have to save no drama for my mama, because she was making plenty of her own. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	theelusiven 2010-02-24 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	Oh GOD; your icon. I love it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	usagivindaloo 2010-02-24 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	Seconding the icon love. That performance made me a diehard Plushenko fan... too bad it's tainted with this drama now (oh plushenko NO). (Reply to this)(Parent)

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