Breakingviews awards gold medals in financial Olympics

In honor of the summer Olympics, here are some medals that Breakingviews would like to see: A "shot put" medal for John Paulson: His big "put" on the subprime crisis made for a very good year. But how much longer can such puts work? How to play the bottom is vexing many. An "$8 billion backstroke" medal to John Thain: He's been doing some back-tracking as of late. A "poll vault" award to Jerry Yang: Turns out Yahoo's service provider miscounted the votes at the recent annual meeting. He received 66 percent of shareholder votes, not 85 percent. What are some medals that you would like to see?   

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- here's the Breakingviews article