Goodbye Gold!
Last week, I just so happened to watch the Olympics; specifically, the Women’s Shot Put Competition. I tuned in just as this burly looking person (at the time I wasn’t sure if it was the male or female competition) heaving the shot put. As the camera did a close-up, I decided it must be the women’s competition as it looked like the aforementioned shot-putter might have had some estrogen… somewhere. I thought to myself, “If this chick isn’t on steroids, then my mother wears combat boots.”
Well, it turned out that the burly-looking chick, the Russian Irina Korzhanenko, (temporarily) won the gold medal. However, this morning, she was stripped of it after testing positive for steroids. (article)
Sorry to say it, but it didn’t really come as much of a surprise to me.
(By the way, my mother does not now, nor has ever to my knowledge, worn combat boots.)
