SCANDAL! Rulings Part 2

1) Scotty Lago sent HOME from the Olympics: SCANDAL! on a few fronts!! First of all, you won the medal, don't you get to do whatever you like with it at that point? Second, a bit of a double standard here as I don't think the Canadian Montgomery was sent home for being a Hoser after his big win. Double Standard!

2) Bindings: No scandal yet - if a ruling leads to any action on the medal-front, then definitely scandal-worty.

3) Plushenko's homemade medal: I smell a super scandal in the making here. Not only is this a grade-A hissy fit, but with Russia hosting the next Olympics, can retaliation against Canada be expected in 2014??

"The Russian reaction began with Plushenko. Taking his place on the podium, he first stepped on the gold medal spot.

"I stepped on the gold medal position," he said, "because I forgot that I came second. To be fair, I felt that I'd stepped on to my position. It wasn't planned, of course. It's just that in my brain, I'd won....

...Then Pravda did a South Park. It blamed Canada.

"We all know Canada has problems with the future lines drawn on Arctic maps," an editorial railed, "and we all know Canada lives in the shadow of its larger neighbour to the south ... [T]he utter incapacity of this county to host a major international event, due to its inferiority complex, [is] born of a trauma being the skinny and weakling bro to the beefy States and a colonial outpost to the United Kingdom.

"Maybe it is this which makes the Canadians so ... retentive, or cowardly. So it is not exactly a huge surprise to have international skating experts ... criticizing the decision to award the men's figure skating gold medal to the U.S. athlete Evan Lysacek over the reigning Olympic Champion Evgeny Plushenko, whose superior performance was inexplicably ignored."

To be slightly fair to Plushenko, his people are claiming that he had nothing to do with the Platinum medal stunt (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=oly&id=4939878). HOWEVER, I think the final word must go to Kathryn Doherty of Columbia, Washington who heard FIRST HAND that Plushenko RUDELY refused to sign an autograph at the 2003 World Championships, thereby proving that he must be a Grade A jerk (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022305349.html). Decision: SCANDAL!

Official SCANDAL! Count as of Wednesday, February 24th: 5