Posted on 09/22/2017 10:37:49 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
France, Germany and Austria all threaten to stay away from the South Korean 2018 Winter Olympics over security fears sparked by Kim Jong-un
Three countries revealed they could avoid games if security situation worsened
Absence of the leading winter sports powers would be hammer blow to games
Pyeongchang Olympics will take place just 50 miles from North-South border
By Rory Tingle For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 19:27 BST, 22 September 2017 | UPDATED: 20:06 BST, 22 September 2017
Austria, Germany and France have threatened to stay away from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea amid security fears over the nuclear-armed North.
Winter Olympics powerhouse Austria also revealed it could stay away from the Pyeongchang Games next February if security concerns deepened.
France's Sports Minister Laura Flessel said yesterday: 'If this gets worse and we do not have our security assured, then our French team will stay here.'
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Yet if Korea had been independent in 1936 I bet they would have attended Hitler’s Berlin Olympics.
On another note....what a feckless bunch of cowards.
I lived there for two separate years during the Cold War closer than the Olympic site and I’m still alive.
These governments might want to go and discuss this with their athletes. I suspect that they already have plans and no intention of skipping the games.
The same crowd ought to be having serious problems with the 2022 FIFA World Cup soccer games in Qatar....with a fear of ISIS terror acts. Yet, they don’t seem to be talking over that issue.
Yeah, but few other than Winston realized how unsane Adolph was in 1936.
I once read that if he’d have died in 1938 he’d be the biggest hero in German history.
Probably even up to ‘42.
All three of those same nations would inspire many foreigners to say the same thing about them. France, Germany and Austria have all absorbed the shock of multiple terrorist actions.
I suspect tourism is sinking, especially in France and Germany.
Most of the liberal media didn't lose their infatuation with "Uncle Adolph" until he invaded their even better friend the Soviet Union some 19 months after that.
We can thank Ribbentrop for the grace period before Barbarossa.
Our pacifist POTUS Carter canceled the US from attending the Olympics after the athletes had been training for years. I think it was 1980 and he was ‘skeered’ of the USSR.
Are France, Germany and Austria any safer?
Are young females getting raped by Islam in SK?
I personally hate them.
That’s KJU’s plan. Ruin the Winter Olympics with threats and weapons tests, unless extensively bribed not to do so.
I could care less about the Olympics but I DO CARE what that crazy fat idiot is doing with his rockets and potential weapons. Sooner or later something bad is going to happen and then all bets are off.
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