Swedish Wrestler throws his medal in disqust.

[VILKAS]

This is the first time a contestant may be right ... yep

Oh yes he is right ! but, he is not the first !!

Anytime a human is put in a place, so he can judge another person !... can be bought, told what and how
to judge.....for he becomes or is part of the corruption !

Applies not only to sport, but to everything anyone is doing!  ...As far as him trowing a tantrum, it was childish, before the medal was put on his neck!... he should have taken and put it on the Judges Neck !

[Denholm]

He probably thought of that later. Sometimes it doesn't come to you while you're flying through the fog of anger within your mind.

[midnight Target]

1972 USA Basketball team... ask them where their silver medals are.

Poor sports? I don't think so. Seems to me they are standing up for what is right.

[Vulcan]

It takes a bigger man to pick it back up and publically apologize.  Being invited to the Olympics is an honor, not a right.

The olympics is nothing however without its participants.

Personally I think the games has become a joke - it's corrupt - and it caters to questionable sports that seem to be nothing more than medal fillers for larger participants.

[Donzo]

If we want to talk ethics, why not address the Gold and Silver medalists?  If they KNEW that he should have advanced, they should have thrown their medals as well.

John Kerry, too!

[CAP1]

If we want to talk ethics, why not address the Gold and Silver medalists?  If they KNEW that he should have advanced, they should have thrown their medals as well.

THAT sir is a very valid and good point.

[2bighorn]

We have no business going to an Olympics in a Police state in the first place.

Ah come on, if that "Police state" is good for business, it is good for Olympics. I'm sick of hypocrites who'd buy anything made in China to save few bucks, yet cry their lungs out when it comes to sport.

[2bighorn]

Being invited to the Olympics is an honor, not a right.

According to Olympic charter, it is a right (some conditions apply though)

[Elfie]

1972 USA Basketball team... ask them where their silver medals are.

Poor sports? I don't think so. Seems to me they are standing up for what is right.

I had not known this before. 

The 1972 Olympic men's basketball gold medal game, marking the first ever loss for Team USA in Olympic play, is arguably the most controversial in Olympic history. The United States rode their seven consecutive gold medals and 63-0 Olympic record to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The team won its first eight games in convincing fashion, setting up a final against the Soviet Union.

With three seconds left in the gold medal game, American forward Doug Collins sank two free throws to put the Americans up 50-49. However, the horn sounded before Collins' second free throw. Immediately following Collins' free throws, the Soviets inbounded the ball and failed to score. But one official had whistled play to stop with one second remaining after hearing the earlier horn and seeing a disturbance near the scorers table. The Soviets argued that they had requested a timeout before Collins' foul shots. The referees ordered the clock reset to three seconds and the game's final seconds replayed. However, the clock was in the process of being reset when the referees put the ball in play. A length of the court Soviet pass missed its mark, the horn sounded and the U.S. again began celebrating.

However, R. William Jones, Secretary General of FIBA, ordered the clock to be reset again at 0:03 and the game replayed from that point. This time, the Soviet's Aleksander Belov and the USA's Kevin Joyce and Jim Forbes went up for the pass, and Belov caught the long pass from Ivan Edeshko at the foul line, sending the two Americans sprawling. Belov then drove to the basket for the layup and the winning points as the buzzer sounded. The U.S. team quickly filed a protest after the game, which was heard by a five-man Jury of Appeal. In a 3-2 decision (divided along ideological lines between Communist and non-Communist countries), the Jury voted down the protest and awarded the gold medals to the Soviet team.[5] The U.S. players voted unanimously to refuse their silver medals; several team members have directed in their wills that their heirs are never to accept the medals, even posthumously.

[Elfie]

I haven't been watching the Olympics at all, so I don't know what happened with this wrestler other than he felt cheated and threw his bronze medal. What exactly did happen that made him feel so cheated?

[Holden McGroin]

According to Olympic charter, it is a right (some conditions apply though)

Not quite.  The Charter says that "The practice of sport is a human right."  But it says,

http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_122.pdf

45 Invitations and Entries*

1. The invitations to take part in the Olympic Games shall be sent out by the IOC to all NOCs
one year before the opening ceremony.

2. Only NOCs recognised by the IOC may enter competitors in the Olympic Games. Any
entry is subject to acceptance by the IOC, which may at its discretion, at any time, refuse
any entry, without indication of grounds. Nobody is entitled to any right of any kind to
participate in the Olympic Games.

[SirLoin]

Freedom of expression RipSnort.

[moot]

How there's any denial that anything could be corrupt under the IOC's tenure, whether judges or the invitation/earning to participate in the games...

[Nilsen]

What exactly did happen that made him feel so cheated?

I have a funny but rather perverse suggestion, but i better keep it to myself  What they wear and what they do to eachother has something to do with my suggestion 

[CAP1]

1972 USA Basketball team... ask them where their silver medals are.

Poor sports? I don't think so. Seems to me they are standing up for what is right.

did they throw them like a bunch of 5 year olds?