Forget gymnastics... bring on the Psi Olympics!

June 26, 2004
Saturday

Forget gymnastics... bring on the Psi Olympics!

Perry de Havilland (London) Eastern Europe/Russia • How very odd!

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In that marvellously bonkers publication Pravda, it is being reported that the Ukrainian sports authorities are blaming their lack of medals at a gymnastic event on the fact their Russian rivals brought in people with paranormal abilities to sabotage the Ukrainian competitors.

According to the federation's governing body, evil-minded Russians hired psychics, people with extrasensory abilities in order to paralyze free will of Ukrainian gymnasts during competitions. Such statement of the federation received wide publicity among Ukrainian media sources, reports PrimaNews.
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The federation also informs that "Russian mobs" brought fifteen paranorms to Kiev, including famous Russian medium Alan Chumak. They were seated in VIP seats on the stadium and somehow paralyzed the will of Ukrainian sportswomen; that is why the latter lost.

To hell with the gymnastics! If they can do such things, then they simply must organise special events in which paranormals compete to see who can paralyse the will of the other first!

No Officer, I am not drunk, I had my will paralysed by Russian paranormals!

Comments

I'm quaking in my boots!

Posted by Gareth Russell at June 26, 2004 02:56 PM

And I thought that chess was the only sport like this.

Posted by Michael Jennings at June 26, 2004 03:27 PM

Proof once again that, no matter how far we go into the 21st century, Russia is and remains a medieval society. Just substitute psychics with witchcraft -- same thing.

Posted by David Crawford at June 26, 2004 05:00 PM

Makes me wonder how we ever won the 70 yrs war!!

Posted by Ian at June 26, 2004 10:35 PM

"Makes me wonder how we ever won the 70 yrs war!!"

We didn't actually, they "paranormalised" us into believing it.

Posted by erwan at June 27, 2004 09:19 AM

Given that fawning specials about Nostradamus are broadcast on the major "educational" cable channels in the United States and Canada are routinely broadcast. And given the "New Age" religion, or philosophy or whatever the hell it is that is practiced nowadays. Do we in the west really have grounds to criticize Russian mysticism from a position of cultural superiority?

Posted by Steven DallaVicenza at June 27, 2004 09:39 AM

de Havilland's post hit the right tone, but David Crawford saw fit to use it as a base to criticise Russian mysticism. As Steven pointed out, we've got no place to stand.

Posted by LuminaT at June 27, 2004 06:55 PM

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