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| | Where have you gone, Ivan Drago? - The Washington Times: Sports - August 19, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) |
 | | After flooring Drago with an improbable late-round surge, Rocky addresses the rapt Russian crowd, which even more improbably has been chanting his name (remember, this is Hollywood). |
 | | Once the Drago of the Olympic world — a big, bad, imposing supervillain, similar to USA Basketball — Russia has become just another player at the Games, one more nation panning for gold in the unglamorous waters of modern pentathlon. |
 | | Of course, it didn't hurt that Ivan wasn't above a little skullduggery: jobbing our men's basketball team in 1972, boycotting the red, white and blue Los Angeles Games, sending their 'roid-ripped East German proxies to party crash our swimming pool. |
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