<span style="font-weight: bold">London 2012 Olympics: Australian shooter Russell Mark to wear mankini at opening ceremony as bet backfires</span>
Australian Olympic shooting gold medallist Russell Mark is set to parade in a lime-green 'mankini' made famous by the movie character "Borat" at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics as the penalty for losing a bet.
By Telegraph Sport
10:03AM BST 15 May 2012
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Mark, who won double trap gold at the 1996 Atlanta Games and silver in Sydney and is <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">a potential flag bearer</span></span> in his sixth Olympics, pledged to wear the skimpy swimsuit worn by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in the 2006 film if Melbourne-based Carlton lost to St. Kilda in the Australian Football League.
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Oh, I must've been intoxicated. Carlton promise so much and just deliver so little. It kills me," the 48 year-old said on Tuesday
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An Australian Olympic Committee spokesman recommended Mark keep the mankini in the closet.
"Age is the problem here. Russell is no spring chicken, his days of being a model are long gone, and we don't think it would be a good look for the team to have Russell in a mankini," the spokesman said.
"Besides, this will be his sixth Olympics and he is a chance to be named as flag bearer. Imagine the flag bearer out in front of our team in a mankini. And a big, butch shooter at that.
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Read more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympic...-backfires.html
Australian Olympic shooting gold medallist Russell Mark is set to parade in a lime-green 'mankini' made famous by the movie character "Borat" at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics as the penalty for losing a bet.
By Telegraph Sport
10:03AM BST 15 May 2012
Comments2 Comments
Mark, who won double trap gold at the 1996 Atlanta Games and silver in Sydney and is <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">a potential flag bearer</span></span> in his sixth Olympics, pledged to wear the skimpy swimsuit worn by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in the 2006 film if Melbourne-based Carlton lost to St. Kilda in the Australian Football League.
[...]
Oh, I must've been intoxicated. Carlton promise so much and just deliver so little. It kills me," the 48 year-old said on Tuesday
[...]
An Australian Olympic Committee spokesman recommended Mark keep the mankini in the closet.
"Age is the problem here. Russell is no spring chicken, his days of being a model are long gone, and we don't think it would be a good look for the team to have Russell in a mankini," the spokesman said.
"Besides, this will be his sixth Olympics and he is a chance to be named as flag bearer. Imagine the flag bearer out in front of our team in a mankini. And a big, butch shooter at that.
[...]
Read more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympic...-backfires.html
