Stories from around the Olympic Village

Here at the BRM we don't necessarily care for the warm-hearted mushy stuff that most news outlets cover during the Olympics. However a few stories managed to catch my eye during the past week...

A pair of Russian ice dancers are getting some heat for their costumes. In pre-trials they drew headlines for the aboriginal costumes deemed too offensive for the Olympics.

So to appease audiences they lost the black face, however they also added some sweet new moves.

I tried this dance move with a girl in Vegas..didn't work out so well for me

Figure skating is kinda ridiculous to begin with, but add in racism and hot Russian chicks and you got my attention. Plus you gotta love the Russians for having no idea what is offensive about this. They didn't have any idea how to make these costumes politicly correct.

The facial expressions are priceless

But we American's can't get too high and mighty, we are not without scandle ourselves. Maintaining the tradition of being the scummiest athletes around, U.S snowboarder Scotty Lago,

was promptly kicked out of the Olympic Village after posting these pictures on Facebook...

...under the Album title, "The Olympics are gayer than unicycles". Gotta love a snowboarder with class. Can't wait to see what Shawn White does with his gold to top this. To quote the wise, patriotic street hockey player from D2, " Go Team Usa, Go."