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The good Bolt and the bad BoltPosted by Eric Mu, August 22, 2008 2:36 PM
 Chutian Metropolis Daily August 22, 2008 Today's Chutian Metropolis Daily reported that Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was criticized by the IOC President Jacques Rogge on Thursday for lack of respect to the other competitors. Rogge commented:
Beijing Youth Daily ran an story about Bolt being friendly with a volunteer named Li Hongguo, and accepted a pair of "Smile" bracelets () from him as a gift. Bolt wore the bracelets in his two record-breaking races. The "Smile" bracelets are a series of soft plastic bracelets in the five Olympic colors wore by the Olympic volunteers. In the 110-meter hurdles finished yesterday, Dayron Robles from Cuba won the gold with his strongest competitor China's Liu Xiang, kept off the track by his injuries. Today's Chinese Business View printed a photo of the new Olympic champion on the front page with a big caption, "The Lonely Winner". Liu Xiang's misfortunes are apparently not limited to the track. He failed to be elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission, yesterday, reported The Beijing News on its front page. Liu garnered 1,386 of the 7,216 eligible votes and ranked eighth out of 29 candidates, but that was not enough to meet the requirement of IOC: only the top four were accepted.  Bolt's celebration, which Mr. Rogge thinks is disrespectful to other competitors Links and Sources
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Comments on The good Bolt and the bad Bolt
In Cantonese, I'd tell Rogge "Diu Lei Lo Mo".
How dare that hypocrite criticize Bolt...