Sleeping Like a Baby
21st August 2008
The deputy head of the Polish fencing association was thrown out of the Olympic village in Beijing this week after being found in a drunken snooze on one of the luxury complex's lawns. The deputy head of the Polish fencing association was thrown out of the Olympic village in Beijing this week after being found in a drunken snooze on one of the luxury complex's lawns.
"Mr Jerzy Sudol has broken the regulations of the Olympic committee and has returned to Poland earlier than planned," a spokesman for Poland's Olympic team told journalists. The scandal is the latest to hit the country's successful fencing team, who have already taken one silver at the games despite a rift between trainers and ...
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