Why it's a bad idea to play games on job applications...

[oiuyt]

http://fencingforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11774

Candidacy of now former coach of female sabre team Dmitriy Ronzhin has been disqualified “for unethical behavior”.
In his application form in the “Required Equipment” section Mr Ronzhin has written “Supply the team members participating in training camps with wooden sabres, since nobody is going to read this anyway” Pozdniakov explained. The members of the committee have voted unanimously to disqualify the candidacy of Mr Ronzhin.

Here's the page with the minutes of the Competitive Commission that made the appointments (in translation via Google):

http://translate.google.com/translat...ru&sl=ru&tl=en

Not sure where Pozdiankov's quotation above came from. Maxim mentions a press release but I didn't see it briefly poking around the Russian Federation site.

-B

[Capt. Slo-mo]

Well, Ronzhin is probably not laughing now. However; one has to suspect if he was likely to have been reappointed, the "wooden sabres" jest would merely have been a reason for raucous laughter over vodka after the meeting.

I suspect his days may have been numbered, based on the Russian WS team's poor showings since St. Petersburg, and this was just the formal excuse for a regime change.