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View Article  Spanish Hoopsters in Hot Water Over Olympics Ad
by Riley Jones on Tue 12 Aug 2008 04:01 PM EDT


"The Spanish Basketball Federation took out a full-page ad in the country's largest sports newspaper, Marca, wishing the men's and women's teams good luck in the Beijing games. The photo accompanying the ad, however — showing all team members making a slant-eyed gesture — raised eyebrows and sparked international outrage."

Back home we would have said 'looks like them boys sufferin' from a bad case of the dumb ass...'-Riley

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View Article  Athlete says sports steroids changed him from woman to man
by Riley Jones on Tue 12 Aug 2008 11:00 AM EDT


Heidi Krieger proved herself one of the world's top athletes in the 1980s, winning medal after medal in the shot put for East Germany. Now, the former sports star looks disdainfully at the awards, dismissing them as "doping medals" and honors that turned a woman into a man.

Heidi Krieger, the 1986 European women's shot-put champion, became Andreas Krieger after a sex-change operation in 1997.

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View Article  How Not to move a truck with a crane
by Riley Jones on Tue 12 Aug 2008 10:15 AM EDT

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