From this story about the weird world of Olympic sport:
A Greek soldier guarding an Olympic facility in Athens was shot dead after apparently playing a game of Russian roulette with a policeman that went horribly wrong.
Now, far be it from me to jump all over someone else's tragedy, but unless there's been a serious rewriting of the rules of Russian Roulette, the game works by putting a semi-loaded gun to your head, and pulling the trigger. Maybe you die, maybe you don't.
So this dude died. Part of the game, sez I. It doesn't strike me as going horribly wrong at ALL. In fact, it sounds like someone won, someone lost, and the rules were adhered to. But were the Olympics always so clear-cut....
Why no I am not feeling all that sympathetic today, why?
:::::posted by erratic :: 03-something PM EST linky