Remember identical twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, Harvard ’04, the ones who claimed four years ago that Zuckerberg stole Facebook from their original site ConnectU?  Yeah, they’re still desperately seeking justice in the form of cash and shares, with ongoing litigation regarding their settlement with Facebook and the value of the stock.  But lately it looks like these suckers are back in the news for another reason.

Only this time Zuckerberg definitely won’t be stealing their thunder, or their gold.  The Winklevoss twins will be rowing as a pretty pair in this summer’s Beijing Olympics.

What happens on the internet stays on the internet.  Which is why Tyler and Cameron desperately need the good press.  It’s either American medalist winners/superstar athletes/hunky twins, or the spoiled bitches that tried to lay one on the invincible Mark Zuckerberg and failed.  If they don’t deliver, all they’ll be known for at the end of the year will be attempting to start a website that was sort of like Facebook and then whining about it for years even though they were probably born with more money than a small country.  After all, they did just take four years off after graduation to paddle around the country on their family’s dime.

After graduating from Harvard in 2004, the Winklevosses spent a year and a half in single sculls, still training out of Newell Boathouse. They had the luxury of time to simply train, as their family had plenty of financial resources. But in the spring of 2006, after winning a National Selection Regatta, they were invited to the national camp. Their base is Princeton, but they have also trained in California and at Clemson.

A word of advice for the Winklevoss bros: just take your shares of Facebook, your trust funds, and enjoy your “Greenwich, summers in Quogue, and prep school” life.  Go fight some new battles, win your gold medals, and get on with those “plans for an entrepreneurial future” you boys share.  Just make sure Zuckerberg doesn’t hear about it first.