Lawyers of the Day: Lithuanian Pentathletes
The Olympics draw to a close this weekend, and soon we shall all forget how excited we were about weird sporting events like the hammer throw, the trampoline, and synchronized swimming.
Two lawyers made a good showing today in one-of-those-sports-we-barely-knew-existed-but-now-we’re-really-excited-about: the men’s Modern Pentathlon! Lithuanian attorneys Andrejus Zadneprovskis and Edvinas Krungolcas won the silver and bronze medals.
These lawyers are well-rounded guys. The Modern Pentathlon is an all-day event that involves shooting, fencing, swimming, riding, and running. From Reuters:
Modern pentathlon was designed to simulate what a soldier delivering a message under duress would go through. Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Games, created it as a test of strength, technical ability, concentration and endurance….The idea behind the sport is that a soldier is sent to deliver a message. He faces an enemy with a gun and shoots, then duels against others with a sword, swims across a river, rides an unfamiliar horse and then runs cross-country to his destination.
That’s impressive. If these two want to practice law in the States, Stoel might be interested in them, especially if they can throw some freestyle running into the mix.
P.S. It’s not just Lithuania that’s turning out lawyer-athletes; the United States is too. Fencer Sada Jacobson, who snagged a silver medal in the women’s individual sabre competition, is heading to law school in the fall, at the University of Michigan.
Russian Moiseev wins gold in men’s modern pentathlon [Reuters]
Upon Returning from Beijing, Fencing Champ Will Be Law School Bound [WSJ Law Blog]
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firsty first
The ATL gang is out in force today: Kash, Lat, Elie, Laurie....
What would be a really good test is if the athletes also got shot at. That would really simulate a soldier delivering a message under duress
Guy on left = HOT
Guy on right = CREEPY
What's the billing code for pentathalon?
Skills for delivering messages under duress? Maybe we should add events like how long you can withstand waterboarding...
nice mugshots
Kash, you need to add a 'respectively' in the following:
Lithuanian attorneys Andrejus Zadneprovskis and Edvinas Krungolcas won the silver and bronze medals, RESPECTIVELY.
"Maybe we should add events like how long you can withstand waterboarding..."
Fake outraged sarcasm = TTT
guys in my high school used to have to fence their way out of tight situations while delivering messages under duress all the time. It was no big deal.
- Wishing I was THE frat stud.
Lithuanian penathelets. Yeah I'd hit that.
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Kash, note that this was the Men's Modern Pentathlon.
The Men's Pentathlon is a 100m hurdles, shot, long jump, high jump and 1500m.
3 - LMAO
So Euro.
Take a bath, guys.
And buy a collared shirt.
Has the Lithuanian attorney pictured (mugshot right) been drug tested?
Just asking.
Bachelor #2 would not be my first choice to furnish with a loaded gun…
yeah, the one on the right looks like he just stepped out of a guy ritchie movie.
She only won silver in sabre? Ahhh, no wonder she picked a half-assed, barely accredited law school like Michigan.
Anyone good with the swords would have become a Cavalier, and gone to UVA.
Where id you say #2 learned to shoot?
Does the Lithuanian Bar have a character and fitness evaluation?
So event #2 is fencing. Who are they fencing against? Other pentathlon competitors? A designated guy with a sword who's blocking everyone's path? The knights who say "Ni"?
Lithuanian for “ferret”.
You didn't know about the pentathlon?!? That's one of the two events Jim Thorpe won a gold medal in!
Like so many attorneys, the guy on the right is both well-rounded and multitalented. I swear I've seen him on TV playing himself in Intervention, To Catch a Predator....
If Andrejus is the guy on the left, then I am thirdsty for Andre "jus"...
18- I'd rather have an olympic silver medal than be a SCOTUS clerk.... hands down. Who cares where she went to law school. An olympic medal gives one more prestige than YLS + Law Review + Scotus clerk and its not even a contest.
Jim Thorpe competed in the pentathlon (a track and field variant of the decathlon). This guy competes in the modern pentathlon. There is a difference.
They only shoot air pistols. First, I'm glad that number two was not given a real gun. Second, I'm surprised and disappointed to learn that air pistol shooting has a place in the Olympics. Third, I'm now unimpressed by the modern pentathlon as it only requires shooting an air pistol (air pistoling?) and only at 10 meters.
http://www.modern-pentathlon.com/shooting.html
Yea but you have to shoot tired after running and stuff. And an "air pistol" is typically 22 cal. and capable of a fatal wound. Still, #2 should never hold a loaded AK-47.