Ban this guy. There’s no excuse for this kind of stupid and unsportsmanlike behavior.
From Newsweek:
Cuba’s Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee square in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend he be banned for life.
“We didn’t expect anything like what you have witnessed to occur,” [...]
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Angel Matos: The UnOlympian
Hurdles: Dayron Robles vs. Liu Xiang II
Liu Xiang and Dayron Robles may be rivals in the track but they’re great pals outside of it. The top photo shows Liu consoling Dayron when the latter was eliminated during the World Indoor Championships last March 2008.
PHOTO SOURCE: IAAF
Hurdles: Dayron Robles vs. Liu Xiang
Oh boy. Seems like an Olympic gold for Liu Xiang in the Beijing Games isn’t a sure thing after all. Who could grab the gold from him? Cuban Dayron Robles who just set a new world record in the 110 meter hurdles.
From the AP:
Dayron Robles of Cuba has set a world record in the 110-meter [...]
Missing in Action: Cuba’s Yurisel Laborde
Did she defect to the United States? Or did something bad happen to her that we still don’t know about? Yurisel Laborde is a Cuban judoka who won a bronze medal during the 2004 Olympics in Athens. She also boasts of two Judo World Championships gold medals which she bagged in 2005 and [...]
Niceness Wins Olympic Medals?
Want to win an Olympic medal? Be cooperative rather than competitive. Don’t take my word for it. Take the words of sports psychologist Susan Butt who believes that Cuba’s remarkable achievements in the Olympics could be traced to its emphasis on “reinforcing feelings of competence and co-operation in athletes” rather than “promoting aggression and competition”.
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