Saturday 5 May 2012

Don't Soil The Olympics

Fernando Zylberberg should not be issued with a visa to enter the United Kingdom in order to compete in them.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 May 2012 at 01:39

    Personally I don't think we should lower ourselves to their level. Best thing to do is ignore them. They are a tinpot nation with little to be proud of.

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  2. Ttony5 May 2012 at 16:01

    His credentials from the IOC are his passport and visa combined, and under the terms of the Olympic Games Act guarantee him entry to the UK.

    Mind you, we can make join the queue at Heathrow.

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  3. Anonymous6 May 2012 at 02:55

    I attended the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. Booked in 1979 and paid the final installment just in time for the Soviets to invade Afghanistan. And as a consequence the package I paid to see was much diminished.
    The Americans never wanted the Games to be held in USSR and frankly I think Afghanistan was an excuse. Likewise the Russian boycott of the LA Games was mere revenge.
    In 2012...It was entirely foreseen that there would be some countries who would use the fact that they are immune from expulsion from the Games to do things which are not exactly pleasant.
    It might well be argued that the hockey player be expelled from the Games. He cant be.
    If he was...I suspect Argentina would withdraw.
    Arguably that would lead to a mass boycott of South American nations. Now arguably that would be greeted with "go ahead.....boycott" but the simple fact is that the Games would be seen to be diminished.
    I suspect other nations with an axe to grind will also act "politically". But frankly thats par for the Olympics.

    Tasteless and tacky that the advertisement was......it was highly effective in rattling the right cages. It was a brilliant PR coup.

    FitzjamesHorse

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  4. David Lindsay6 May 2012 at 12:26

    In general, I do not agree with boycotts. Many sports have a very limited age range in which people are at the peak of their powers, giving them only one opportunity in their lifetimes of winning an Olympic medal. But this man knew what he was doing when he jumped all over the war memorial. He cannot, or at least he should not, expect to get away with it.

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  5. Anonymous6 May 2012 at 21:33

    Yes he knew what he was doing.
    And frankly he would have known that he "would get away with it".
    Who can possibly do anything?
    He has made himself a national hero in Argentina.
    And the Falklands veterans on Sky News talking about re-launching an invasion fleet look a bit silly.
    The British public were not told so much about the Olympics....anti aircraft missiles in Tower Hamlets, corporate hospitality taking the lions share of tickets, or (effectively) a loss of sovreignty or control of its own borders for the duration of the Games.
    FJH

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  6. David Lindsay6 May 2012 at 22:00

    Oh, I quite agree.

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