Daily Archives: February 10, 2014

Here’s my number, call me, maybe?’

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Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev1

‘ Russian Olympic snowboarder receives thousands of texts and some VERY indecent proposals after writing his cell phone number on his helmet

Here’s hoping Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev has unlimited texting on his phone.

Sobolev competed in slopestyle qualifying on Thursday with his cellphone number written on his helmet.

 

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It was his idea of trying to get through what he called the boredom of the athletes’ village on the mountain. Sobolev says he has received more than 2,000 texts since then.

Olympic rules prevent Sobolev from competing with his number on his helmet in the finals on Saturday.

As far as he’s concerned, his mission is already accomplished: ‘Everyone already knows my number.’

Sobolev’s stunt didn’t last long, however, as in the semi-final round the number had been covered up.

 

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Bosnia: Angry Protesters Want New Govt of Experts

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 բոսնիա,ցույցեր Thousands are protesting in Bosnia for a sixth day, demanding that politicians resign and a new government of non-partisan experts be put in to address the country’s nearly 40 percent unemployment and rampant corruption.

Protesters say “overpaid” politicians are detached from the peoples’ reality and obsessed with inter-ethnic bickering decades after a 1991-95 war that killed 100,000. The crowd gathers daily in front of the presidency in Sarajevo — which they set ablaze on Friday — and other government buildings in other cities.

A banner held Monday by two elderly people claimed that one politician’s monthly salary equals four years of the average pension payment. Every fifth Bosnian now lives below the poverty line.

 

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Iranian women’s football team forced to have gender testing after it was revealed four players were MEN

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Iranian women footballers will be required to undergo mandatory gender-testing after it was revealed that four players in the national women’s team were in fact men.

Medical examiners will conduct random checks at training sessions and any players who fail the examination and cannot prove that they are completely female will be barred from the competition.

Iran’s football governing body announced the random checks after it was revealed that several leading players, including four in the national women’s team, were men who had not completed sex change operations or who were suffering from sexual development disorders, reported the Telegraph.

Sex change operations have been legal in Iran since 1979, when the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a religious ruling saying they were acceptable.

While those who cannot prove they are female will be barred from competing in the women’s competition, they will be re-admitted once they have completed the sex change process.

Football is immensely popular in Iran among both men and women, even though women are not able to attend games between male teams.

Seven players have already had their contracts terminated since the Iranian football federation said that clubs were required to establish a player’s gender before signing them.