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Greece expels Olympic triple jumper Papachristou over Twitter comments
Fox News ^ | July 25, 2012 | AP

Posted on 07/25/2012 11:04:38 AM PDT by Rennes Templar

ATHENS, Greece – Triple jumper Voula Papachristou was expelled from Greece's Olympic team Wednesday for her comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right party.

The Hellenic Olympic Committee said Wednesday that Papachristou had been excluded from the team "for statements contrary to the values and ideas of the Olympic movement."

Papachristou is in Athens and has not responded to calls from The Associated Press. The committee said she was to travel to London shortly before the track events start. Papachristou's Twitter account ((at)papaxristoutj) contains several retweets and postings of YouTube videos promoting the views of Golden Dawn, a formerly marginal extreme right party that entered the Greek Parliament in the recent two national elections -- in May and June this year -- by polling almost 7 percent of the vote.

But it was her attempt at a joke Sunday that went viral. 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!!!". Her tweet prompted thousands of negative comments that snowballed Wednesday.

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Before the publication of the last tweet, Democratic Left, one of the three parties in Greece's coalition government, had published a statement assailing the "racist humor" and calling on the Hellenic Olympic Committee to expel Papachristou from the Olympics "Let her make any miserable 'jokes' on social media while watching the games on TV. She definitely cannot represent Greece in London," the Democratic Left statement said.

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KEYWORDS: greece; liberalism; olympics; thoughtcrime
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"With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food!!!"

That's funny, but not to the left PC crowd. Lighten up people.

1 posted on 07/25/2012 11:04:43 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: Rennes Templar
Pictures are required !!


2 posted on 07/25/2012 11:08:16 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

Not Guilty!

Of Anything....

Evuh!!!


3 posted on 07/25/2012 11:15:33 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Rennes Templar

if that’s the view of greece’s government I guess it’s no wonder that country is the model for epic failure in the world.

uh oh I hope that comment wasn’t “racist”


4 posted on 07/25/2012 11:17:35 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (whites are 8 times more likely to be victimized by black criminals than blacks by white criminals)
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To: TexasCajun
She can be on my Olympic team anytime.

Problem is now, anyone who comes to her defense to have her reinstated will be labeled as racist.

5 posted on 07/25/2012 11:23:18 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: Cubs Fan

Greece is so left it’s not funny.

Cubs fan, eh? I’ve been suffering all my life too.


6 posted on 07/25/2012 11:25:08 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: TexasCajun

One of the most “not guilty” girls ever featured on FR.

BJ Clinton has already issued a post-POTUS pardon, BTW.


7 posted on 07/25/2012 11:25:21 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Rennes Templar

She should have joked about one of us groups who can take one on the chin without crying.


8 posted on 07/25/2012 11:26:36 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Rennes Templar

Why is a country that is broke still accept immigrants? (I know, the US is doing the same.)

Do they expect other countries in the EU to support them?


9 posted on 07/25/2012 11:29:44 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: TexasCajun
 

How sweet it is!

10 posted on 07/25/2012 11:29:54 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Rennes Templar

Whatever happened to sticks and stones?

It disappeared in the sixties along with most things called good at the time. Now your life will be destroyed if you say anything negative about certain breeds in the barnyard


11 posted on 07/25/2012 11:58:06 AM PDT by winodog
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HELLAS! Selective outrage. If memory serves, being virulently racist didn't hurt these olympians any:
MarxistOlympians
12 posted on 07/25/2012 11:58:45 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: TexasCajun

I had something important to say... but, eh... what was this thread about?


13 posted on 07/25/2012 12:00:48 PM PDT by Never on my watch (I'd rather light a candle than curse the flatulence.)
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To: Vendome

It’s ‘’Greek’’ to me!!


14 posted on 07/25/2012 12:20:26 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: Rennes Templar


15 posted on 07/25/2012 12:53:08 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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uh oh I hope that comment wasn’t “racist”

Yeah, you raciss ..... Voula raciss ....

Everybody to the right of Lenin is raciss ....

Stalinist "intellectual" Susan Sontag once said, "The Caucasian race is the cancer of the planet." Get it?

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaciss!!

16 posted on 07/25/2012 12:55:03 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: houeto

Check out this 19 year-old Australian hurdler Michelle Jenneke

17 posted on 07/25/2012 1:18:08 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

We have our own, Lolo and Solo


18 posted on 07/25/2012 1:34:23 PM PDT by Tspud1
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To: TexasCajun

19 posted on 07/25/2012 1:37:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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Oh, that helps a lot!

And she's very fast. ...wins this race.

20 posted on 07/25/2012 2:05:58 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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