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      02-13-2014, 04:55 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by AndreyT View Post
Meanwhile, back in the civilization an American athlete had to borrow pants to participate in the competition

http://billingsgazette.com/sports/ol...5e5a03b15.html
Link fail. Perhaps a hoax story? That would be par for the course of AndreyT posts.

Edit: Found the story. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/02/u-s-...-broken-boots/
Apparently she didn't have sponsors. She needed new pants, so her teammate (who has a lot of sponsors) gave her an extra set. And it wasn't "to participate in the competition" as you've insinuated. Good job twisting the story though, similar to all your other posts. THAT would be par for the course of AndreyT posts.

Edit: Also, still awaiting some kind of proof, using any meaningful metric, of your earlier statement that:

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Russia by a large margin is the richest and the most expensive place in the world.
By the way, Russia ranks a lowly #58 by the GDP per capita metric (most used metric to determine the "richest" country). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...PP)_per_capita. The US? #6, thank you very much.

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