
The press secretary of the US President Robert Gibbs is in no hurry to fulfill the conditions of the “hockey” betting, lost to his Canadian colleague-the official representative of the Prime Minister of this country Dimitri Sudas.
As Nick Shapiro, a colleague of Gibbs earlier, said in the White House, he beat the lawsuit with a judgment that in the final match between the male teams of the USA and Canada in hockey at the Olympic Games in the struggle for the Golden Medal, a team of the United States would top up.
The loser in the dispute must survive for 15 minutes in the sweater of the enemy national hockey team before the lenses of many television cameras at a regular briefing for journalists.
In this regard, on Monday, March 1, such a meeting with the press began in Gibbs in a very busy manner and with disappointed exclamations of journalists - the representative of the president appeared before the audience in an ordinary suit and at a tie, ITAR -TASS reports.
Nevertheless, the White House spokesman assured that he was "in the process of obtaining a hockey sweater" of the Canadian national team. According to Gibbs, he and his Canadian counterpart are currently trying to find the "best way" to transfer the sweater of the Canada of the Canada in hockey to the side of the losing land.
A similar dispute lost to the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper and US President Barack Obama. They, however, had beer at the stake. The silver team taken by the US team in Vancouver means that Obama should buy Harper a box of products of the oldest Canadian brewing company Molson.
Otherwise, Harper would have to put Obama packaging of the products of the oldest American Breeded plant of Yuengling from the state of Pennsylvania.
Gibbs at a briefing did not specify whether his boss fulfilled the conditions of the lost bet. On Sunday, February 28, Gibbs confirmed that Obama looked in the White House on the air of the overtime of the match, which the Americans lost 2: 3.