We explore the recent results announced in "Robust machine learning by median-of-means: theory and practice" by G. Lecu\'e and M. Lerasle. We show that these results are, in fact, almost obvious outcomes of the machinery developed in [4] for the study of tournament procedures.
@article{arxiv.1712.06788,
title = {A remark on "Robust machine learning by median-of-means"},
author = {Gabor Lugosi and Shahar Mendelson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06788},
year = {2017}
}