Oh the humanity! Once again I am financially doomed by a cruel quirk of fate. As many of you are aware, winter games for me is all about curling. I have been thrown out of many a fine Sporting establishment for my hurling of epiphets when my team is behind. I do not allow myself to wager as this would diminish my respect for the sport, what we do though is begin a tab a few hours before the competition and the loser has to pay. This also helps to embelish our enthusiasm for the sport. Today as I was catching up on my Summer Olympic passion "Badminton" I was devastated to see that several womens doubles teams were eliminated for not giving there all. It has taken years to earn the respect of the sporting world as to the athleticism and competiveness of this much adulated sport, hopefully the appeals will be allowed and this blemish erased. in the mean time I would like to offer my Wang Xialli and Yu Yang rookie cards to the best offer. I have a feeling if the appeal is not allowed that these two Chinese Players will disappear into history as so many people in China have. Go Slovania!