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The Stoned Olympics

August 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

More Eddie Izzard, this time from his film, Circle.  Timely, sure, and when this was filmed in 2000, there was an Olympics happening, too.  As an aside, I discovered that Eddie was performing in San Diego the day after I arrived there a few weeks ago, so I missed seeing his live act yet again (though I could have blown off my high school reunion, but didn’t spend too long figuring out where my time was best spent).

Meanwhile, back in the real world…

Stoned archer banned from Beijing
16 July 2008, 8:15:00 a.m.
by Peter Cassidy

Czech archer Milan Andreas has had his Olympic dreams shattered after testing positive to marijuana.

The Czech Olympic Committee has confirmed Andreas will not be included in the national squad.

“We have not had this officially, but Milan Andreas had a positive test for THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active chemical in marijuana). It appears he will not be nominated for Beijing,” committee spokesman Jan Martinek told the CTK news agency.

The 19-year-old insists he smoked the drug in September last year without a thought for the consequences.

“The Olympics should have been the height of my career and instead it has turned into the greatest upset,” Andreas said of his Olympic participation.

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  • 1 Stu // Aug 21, 2008 at 9:29 AM

    Shows how things are getting better over in the former Eastern Bloc countries. They only used to have vodka, now they’ve got pot and hippies.

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