My first winner of the week is German wrestler Matthias Steiner, who won a gold medal in weightlifting's heaviest division. To win, he lifted a total 1,016.3 pounds.
When Mattias was on the gold medal stand, he held up a picture of his wife, who passed away in a car accident last year.
“I thought of her before the competition,” he said. “I won this for her, for friends and family. But mostly for her.”
A second winner of the week goes to US sprinter David Neville. Neville took the bronze in the 400 meter dash, diving across the finish line with a split of 44.80 seconds. The leap at the end allowed him to beat Christopher Brown of the Bahamas by just 0.04 seconds. I can't find a photo of the finish to post on here but his dive at the end gave him the bronze by his fingertips, literally.
The loser of the week is Cleveland talk show eater, I mean, host Mike Trivisonno. A couple days ago, longtime public servant Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Cleveland suffered a brain aneurysm while driving and was taken to a hospital where she had little brain activity. Many media outlets reported she had already died Wednesday early afternoon. BUT that was not the case. She was still alive. Many people were/are upset at the media for rushing to pronounce her death. On WTAM 1100 AM, they broke into Rush Limbaugh in the afternoon to announce her "death." Sadly, Mrs. Tubbs-Jones did die later that day. My deepest sympathies go to her family.
A day later, WTAM talk show host Mike Trivisonno defended his station for jumping the gun by saying things like, "Hey, look, we are right 99 percent of the time." Being correct 99 percent of the time doesn't justify bad reporting. The media outlets that erroneously reported her passing claimed it was due to a source close to the family or other anonymous sources that claimed they were close to the family. Didn't anyone think to call the hospital and check?
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You are correct when you say that there were too many outlets to jump the gun regarding Stephanie Tubbs Jones demise way too early.
Didn't seem to me that anybody was concerned about family members who were still holding out hope.
I remember one other time when Triv jumped the gun announcing someone's death. I was listening to Paul Harvey's "rest of the story" one day when Triv broke in and announced that Bob Hope had died, then played the ABC news announcement. Several minutes later Triv had to say that the story was in error.
Wow...he screwed up Bob Hope's death too?! A native Clevelander?! Some people don't get it.
That kind of "oh, well...sorry" kind of repsonse has to be done away with.
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The Bob Hope screw up was years, not hours, in advance.
BTW, yesterday was a milestone date for me. It was one year ago yesterday that his arrogantness tore into me on the air.
Wow...the Bob Hope mistake was worse than I thought.
The guy is a buffoon.
Wow, Steiner lifted over 1,000 lbs.!! Yikes--that makes my back hurt just thinking about it. It is amazing to me what some athletes can do.
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