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was about to be beaten up for saying this. It"s too bad the bet was so low. I bet a bottle of cognac with everyone who was in the group [with me]," he said.Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said that Russia"s disappointing performance at the Vancouver Olympics must be thoroughly analyzed before the Sochi 2014 Games, indicating that heads could roll.
In 1952, after the Soviet Union"s football side lost to Yugoslavia in the final of the Helsinki Summer Games, an enraged Stalin disbanded the CSKA Moscow side, from which most of the players were drawn. The defeat was not mentioned in the Soviet press until after the dictator"s death a year later, when CSKA also reformed.
GORKI, March 1 (RIA Novosti)
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