by Christina Wilkie
White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi's annual polo tournament will be featured next week on HBO's Emmy award-winning series "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."
The polo tournament, "America's Cup of Polo," is held in June every year, and it figures prominently into the first episode of the couple's reality show on Bravo, "The Real Housewives of D.C." In that episode, cast member Cat Ommanney complains about the small turn-out at the 2009 polo match, which pitted an Italian team against a U.S. team captained by Tareq Salahi. Another cast member, Lynda Erkeletian, skips the tournament all together because she doesn't like the Salahis.
"Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" is known for having investigated some of the biggest controversies in sports, and the Salahi segment may help answer some unresolved questions about the polo match's finances: Nearly all the 2010 sponsors listed in the program denied having anything to do with the tournament, while a number of the vendors who have provided services for the tournament in the past have complained that they were not paid by the Salahis.
The episode airs Tuesday, Aug. 17 at 10 p.m. and will be broadcast in HD.
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