Monday - July 16, 2012

can’t wait for the olympic shooting event

OK, let me be honest. I think much of this story is farcical.  But it’s still on the funny side cos it shows ya how phony some things can be and the lengths some folks will go to to get their way.
Now understand I do have sympathy with Mr. Mark.  After all, who would want to share a bedroom with this fellow, olympic shooter Michael Diamond,
he’s the one on the left, instead of a room with a view like the one on the right. Her name is Lauryn. She’s Mr. Mark’s wife.

They are both sport shooters.  But there’s a fly in the ointment.
Apparently the sexes have separate sleeping quarters and Mr. Mark is very unhappy about that. He wants to sleep with his wife. Now that’s a novel idea.  How’s that work? 
So he’s raising the issue of “discrimination” claiming that he knows there are “gays” sharing rooms. But it isn’t about sex, it’s to do with gender sleeping arrangements.  It’s all a non issue really. And who cares anyway, beside he and the wife.
However, the wife did pose for a very raunchy magazine called Zoo, and she has a gun.
Now I ask you, what more could we ask for?
A woman in a bikini with a gun.  Hey.  How do we resist posting this story?  Silly as it may be. Or not so silly if you happen to be Mr. Mark.

Shooter upset by Olympics sleeping plans
Radio Australia

Australian shooting champion Russell Mark says he is frustrated at being denied the opportunity to share a room at the Olympic village in London with his wife and fellow competitor Lauryn.

Lauryn Mark is also representing the Australian team in shooting, but husband Russell says officials have banned them from staying in the same accommodation.

“I’ve been trying to get a resolution on this for several months,” Mark told ABC Radio.

“You’d be pretty naive to think there aren’t other athletes in other females’ or males’ rooms at the Olympic Games.”

Mark has been told to share a room with fellow men’s shooter Michael Diamond.

But the six-time Olympian says he wants to maintain his usual routine ahead of the trap shooting competition in London.

“I just want to keep the same normal routine that I keep in every other competition that I compete in all over the world, and I guess so does Lauryn,” he said.

“I wouldn’t have thought this was going to be the issue that it has become because at the Commonwealth Games, before I was married to Lauryn, they let us room together.

“That didn’t seem to be an issue in 2002.”

Mark says that despite the request being investigated by a number of agencies, a final resolution is yet to be announced.

“Everyone’s blaming everyone else now,” he said.

“The Australian Shooting Association are blaming the Australian Olympic Committee. And the Australian Olympic Committee are saying we don’t have a problem with it if the Shooting Association can find you a room.

“I mean we put a man on the moon in 1969. Finding a room in the Olympic village can’t be that difficult, surely.”

The double-trap gold medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Games recently spoke out in support of athletes using sleeping tablets, after Mark himself admitted to using Temazepam in competition.

“I don’t want to be made a scapegoat because I’m publicly saying I’m using them and I know other people are,” Mark said.

“Don’t make us out to be criminals.”

And the 48-year-old says he is keen for his sleeping arrangement in London to be confirmed.

“I was told on Wednesday morning at 9:00am that my room-mate would be Michael Diamond,” Mark said.

“Nothing against Michael ... I’ve roomed with him before but he doesn’t wear a pink nightie the same way that Lauryn wears it.

“And he’s not as cuddly and he doesn’t shave enough and I’ve had enough of him.”

ABC AUSTRALIA

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As long as I have spent an hour or more putting this together, Drew’d have done it in minutes, I should have sent it all to him. LOL.
I may as well add some stuff for those of you who are less refined and would prefer to see some arty stuff below the fold. Kind of stuff me and Drew wouldn’t bother looking at. I had no choice looking cos I had to post it all.  Oh what sacrifices we make for BMEWS.

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