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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jaseroque
2010-02-25 02:48 pm UTC (link)

Since you mentioned Mao, I gotta ask -- I don't know much about skating (though I like to watch it) but I'm in Japan right now, and everything is just 'MAO MAO MAO'. So... is she a good skater on an international scale? I mean, I can see by watching her that she's pretty talented, but I don't know how she rates compared to the rest of the world.

(Seriously, the Mao madness is... kinda funny really. I watched the qualifiers for the Olympics, and it was like -- someone's routine! Finished, cut to Mao-chan sitting on a bench looking bored. Another routine! Cut to Mao-chan... sitting on a bench looking bored. Another routine! Mao has started her warmups, she is jumping down a corridor. Boing, boing, boing...)

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	fourthage 2010-02-25 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	She won 2008 world championship, so yeah. She's pretty much the only one right now capable of challenging Kim Yu-Na. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	adevyish 2010-02-25 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	She's the second woman to complete the triple axel at the Olympics; that is pretty exclamation-mark worthy. (Miki Ando has actually landed a quad in competition, but that was on the junior circuit.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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