((HT: IOC/Deadspin/AP))
This looks like a really cool story- even if it's financially augmented...
A married couple living in the US represented the tiny island nation of Dominica in Sochi as skiers...
But Dave McKenna wrote a brilliant piece for Deadspin detailing how, apparently, most of the credentials of Gary di Silvestri and Angelica Morrone are either false or hiding some kind of corruption...
Neither di Silvestri nor Morrone went far in their ski competitions- citing injury- Morrone didn't even start...
Dominica lets you be a citizen by dropping $175,000 in one of their banks and paying a $3,530 tariff. The New Yorker and the Italian did that, from their house in Montana, and walked in Sochi.
As a matter of fact, a guy from di Silvestri's old high school even edited this as a source of pride for the school itself.
But di Silvestri's creds don't hold up...
McKenna went into the wrestling background and found out it didn't match, and also found that Morrone was at the heart of a scandal in the late 1990's involving car manufacturer Fiat and the buying of votes for international competitions.
So, this shows that if you've got the dollars, you can do pretty much whatever you want, even if it isn't true...
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