Married couple told they have to room separate at Olympics

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Wouldn't be an issue of they were homosexual, however:

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/Separate-rooms-for-livid-Olympic-couple_11965995

LONDON, England (AFP) — Australia shooter Russell Mark arrived in Britain an angry man after being told he won't be allowed to sleep with his wife during the London Olympics.Mark and his wife Lauryn, a fellow competitor who is also on the Australian shooting team, have been told to room separately during the Games.

The 48-year-old Mark, competing at his sixth Olympics, said Australian officials had enforced the ban as a result of Lauryn's contentious appearance in 'lads magazine' Zoo, where she has been photographed holding a shotgun over her back dressed only in a green and gold bikini.

Mark said he and his wife were being punished for being a married couple."The stupid part of this... is that there are tons of gay couples on the Olympic team who will be rooming together so we are being discriminated against because we are heterosexual.
"Every couple, whether they are married or de facto should have the AOC (Australian Olympic Committee) trying to bend over backwards to accommodate their needs. What pissed (angered) the AOC more than anything else is the photo shoot. It's just too hard for them."

But Nick Green, chef de mission for the Australian team, dismissed the claims and denied there was discrimination against heterosexual couples.

"It is simply not true. I have known Russell for 16 years. "Accommodation and bedding are done in a particular way to ensure all the athletes are accommodated in the village."

Green added making exceptions would have a "significant domino effect". Mark made headlines in Australia in May when he threatened to parade at the opening ceremony of the Games in a lime-green mankini.

He said then the penalty for losing the wager over the outcome of an Aussie Rules football clash was to don the skimpy bathing suit made famous by the movie "Borat" starring Sacha Baron Cohen.

"I actually did make that statement," Mark, who won double trap gold at the 1996 Atlanta Games and silver in Sydney, joked on local radio.

"Anyway, a lot of people would think a mankini might look better than the uniform they've nominated for us, so I don't know if it's such a bad thing."

Australia's uniform for the opening ceremony got mixed reviews with criticism that the athletes looked like lawn bowlers.

The uniforms feature green jackets with white slacks for men and white knee-length skirts for women and white Dunlop volley shoes.

Australian Olympic Committee spokesman Mike Tancred told reporters a mankini would not be a good look for Mark.

"Age is the problem here. Russell is no spring chicken, his days of being a model are long gone, and we don't think it would be a good look for the team to have Russell in a mankini," he said.

"Besides, this will be his sixth Olympics and he has a chance to be named as flag bearer. Imagine the flag bearer out in front of our team in a mankini. And a big butch shooter at that."


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Dr Eggman said:
Sure it's fucked up, but what the fuck is this supposed to mean?
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Homosexuals will be allowed to sleep together on the farms your children cannot work on.
 
Oh my god, every Republican Dad's nightmare is coming true! How long before heterosexuality is banned outright!?
 
It's the gays' fault the Australian Olympic Committee didn't like her bikini pictures!

Shooting shouldn't be an Olympic sport anyway. Might as well make billiards or horseshoes an Olympic sport.
 
Outrageous! This is a clear instance of homo lovers discriminating against normal people. Straight married couples can never catch a break.
 
I don't understand this story at all.

The 48-year-old Mark, competing at his sixth Olympics, said Australian officials had enforced the ban as a result of Lauryn's contentious appearance in 'lads magazine' Zoo, where she has been photographed holding a shotgun over her back dressed only in a green and gold bikini.
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I'm reading this, and I recognise it as an explanation, but I just don't understand.

Oh well, off to look for the bikini image....

Edit: Her breasts please me.
 
Dude Abides said:
It's the gays' fault the Australian Olympic Committee didn't like her bikini pictures!

Shooting shouldn't be an Olympic sport anyway. Might as well make billiards or horseshoes an Olympic sport.
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chess is an olympic sport, and shooting requires a lot of skill too. This is just shitty happenstance. They will have to get a hotel room every couple nights to "pull the trigger"
 
Krauser Kat said:
chess is an olympic sport, and shooting requires a lot of skill too. This is just shitty happenstance. They will have to get a hotel room every couple nights to "pull the trigger"
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Since when has chess been an Olympic sport?
 
They are running a sporting event not a fucking couples retreat. I can understand 'Are these room mates good for snuggling' coming pretty low down the list of priorities when handing out room keys.
 
Sounds like it could be a weird old gender rule thing. Men don't room with women etc. Similar to banning women who have higher levels of testosterone from competing. Things need to be updated for the times. Could be a misunderstanding or complete bullshit too.
 
Krauser Kat said:
chess is an olympic sport, and shooting requires a lot of skill too. This is just shitty happenstance. They will have to get a hotel room every couple nights to "pull the trigger"
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Though I think shooting should be included in Olympic, since when was chess an Olympic Sport?
 
Kosmo said:
Wouldn't be an issue of they were homosexual, however:

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/Separate-rooms-for-livid-Olympic-couple_11965995
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Why did you do this?

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I don't get why people are annoyed by Kosmo's comment? It's what the article is implying. Why is it a jab at gays? The article says "discriminated against because we are heterosexual."

Edit: Oh unless he meant no one would care if it was a gay couple being separated?
 
Darklord said:
I don't get why people are annoyed by Kosmo's comment? It's what the article is implying. Why is it a jab at gays?
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Actually, it's not what the article is implying. It's the guys angry comment. The article implies his wife's photo shoot, and his threatening to strut around in a mankini cause he didn't like the uniforms this year as the reason.
 
This isn't about married couples, this is about this particular couple, and how Australian officials think splitting them up is punishment for some other random stuff.
 
Are male and female athletes are assigned separate rooms as a rule in general, Olympics? If that's the case it's simply loophole for homosexual couples.
 
mugurumakensei said:
It was in 1924. It was then spun off into its own Olympiad. It is a recognized sport by the International Olympics committee though.
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No it wasn't. Chess was never an Olympic sport.
 
Is the lady herself complaining? It's the infamous olympic games; i'd want to get separate rooms if i were in her position *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
 
aku:jiki said:
That's got to be one of the biggest cases of "how the hell did HE get HER?" I've ever seen.
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They are both elite athletes in a specialized sport, they probably spand lots of time around each other and travel in the same circles.

Well, I dunno about that, they porbably have to spend time in men's only and women's only circles.

Yeah, I have no idea how he got her.
 
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