no wonder Greece is a wreck

[polksalet]

http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/greece-s-voula-papachristou-expelled-from-olympics-slideshow/

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Yeah, I read her "racist" tweets.... Wow, people are a bit too touchy.

 

And, BTW, I'd hit, though in the first pic you can see the rolls in her skin on her side which is somewhat of a turnoff.

[matt770]

What's her stance on the ghey marriage?

[moneymakers]

Me thinks it has more to do with the highlighted portion.

 

 

The Hellenic Olympic Committee has removed triple jumper Voula Papachristou from the team taking part in the upcoming London Olympic Games over comments she made on Twitter making fun of African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right party. “

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Here is the Tweet, BTW:

 

But it was her attempt at a joke Sunday that got the most attention. Commenting on the widely reported appearance of Nile-virus-carrying mosquitoes in Athens, Papachristou wrote: "With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food!!!".

 

 

I may need some help on this one... is it really that racist?

[detlef]

Meh, I'm neither hughly outraged by her comments, nor by the fact that a cash-strapped country decided that making insulting tweets and not backing off them until a harsh penalty was imposed was enough reason not to foot the (what I'm guessing is a rather hefty) bill to take a marginal athlete who has virtually no shot at medaling to the games.

 

Non-story as far as I'm concerned.

Edited July 26, 2012 by detlef