Olympic effort on the slopes...

The staff of Readlarrypowell.com will be away from our desk, er, desks most of the day.
And while I’m gone enjoying a vacation day with my funspouse Martha, Inky, the Cocker Laureate of the State of Texas, is also gone.
He is skiing at an undisclosed location under the direction of top secret U.S. Olympic Team advisors. “It’s all about the gold,” Inky told Readlarrypowell.com.
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a highly-regarded Olympic skier in training, but Inky takes this quite seriously. He and his attorney, Nathan Wolfmann, have convinced the International Olympic Board of Governors that there are no rules that say “two skis per competitor.”  
Thus, he is allowed to use the Canine Quatro Glide system he invented. More on that as the Olympic trials begin.  And, of course, there is a movement in France to get the Quatro Glide thrown out of competition. One of the French attorneys referred to it as “the Lance Armstrong of the Slopes.” Inky had no comment in the French press.
In the meantime, as Inky points out, the 2014 Winter Olympics will be in Sochi, Russia, the only city on the planet that has an international competition treaty with the World Cocker Spaniel Downhill Skiing Federation. How’s that for luck. (Aside: Some of the preceding passage may have been made up.)
He will be competing in 2012 in the Summer Games in London. More on that later, but he is grateful to his sponsor, the multi-dimensional Lightfoot Track Shoes & Waffle Hut.
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