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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	plazmah 2010-02-24 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	Prepare to be enraged! OH ELVIS STOJKO NO was my exact reaction to this. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	usagivindaloo 2010-02-24 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	Ugh.. well, I suppose it's slightly better than I could have expected (was a bit less about gay men and more about ~artistry~ than I was expecting), but that was still... ick. Could you please stop using the word "effeminate" like it's some sort of disease, Elvis? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	plazmah 2010-02-24 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly. Personally, it was his "People in the gay community have to realize they’ve got to take themselves out of it." spiel that pissed me off the most. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

usagivindaloo
2010-02-24 11:52 pm UTC (link)

The worst part is, I'm sure he could have salvaged something remotely like a valid point out of that wreckage if he wasn't being such an insensitive jerk. I mean, if he'd said something like, "Yes, figure skating can be very beautiful and artistic and that's totally cool but I think you can have performances based more on power and jumps as well, and that's cool too," we'd all be nodding along. Or at least not wincing and backing away in distaste.

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	plazmah 2010-02-25 12:14 am UTC (link)
	Same here; when I first heard about the article, it was through someone else who made it sound like he was advocating people work on power and jumps while also retaining skills in artistry. Then I read it myself and was... not pleased. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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