Have you heard of Olympians, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss? Probably not. Well they didn't do too well in their preliminary rowing heat.
The rowing duet, placed last in their heat in the 2000m rowing competition. They participate in the men's M2 which has two rowers on each team, each with one oar. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg must be cheering somewhere secretly, since the Winklevoss brothers have filed a lawsuit against him claiming he stole the idea for Facebook from them.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the founders of ConnectU which is a social network similar to Facebook (or Facebook is a social network similar to ConnectU, whatever). They both attended Harvard University with Zuckerberg.
They claim that in while in college, the brothers hired Zuckerberg as a programmer for their site ConnectU. And instead of completing his programming assignments Zuckerberg stalled, and launched Facebook instead.
The suit has since been settled. The terms of the settlement were there Facebook gets to acquire ConnectU for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. However, the Winklevoss Twins won't stop tormenting Zuckerberg and has contested that settlement.
Maybe they were too distracted by the millions they stand to gain from the lawsuit. But, regardless, the Winklevosses will have anohter chance to get into the semifinals on Sunday. Here's betting that they don't make it and party up in China instead.