Olympic axe for Argie star who trained on Falklands war memorial

The Sun ^ | 9th May 2012 | Andrew Snell

[the scotsman]

'THE Argentinian Olympic athlete who sparked outrage after he was shown in an ad doing step-ups on a British war memorial in the Falklands is set to miss the London games.

Hockey player Fernando Zylberberg has been quietly ditched from the team ahead of their final warm up event in Malaysia later this month.

Argentina was condemned around the world after it broadcast the insulting clip last week.

It ended with the slogan: "To compete on English soil we train on Argentine soil."

Zylberberg has been left out of the 18-man squad for the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in the Southeast Asian country.

And without an appearance at the tournament, which begins next week, he is almost certain to not make the cut for London.'

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I got to the Embassy in 1986, working in the Military Attache Office. The Chief Attache was an Air Force colonel and there were a couple of other Assistant Air Attaches (A/AIRA). These guys replaced the Air Force staff who had been liaising with their Argie counterparts during the war, and any good work was undone by our “tilting” toward our British allies. He told me that Argie military officers who had received training in the US lined up in front of the Embassy and threw their training certificates over the fence. By 1989, relations had stabilized to the point where US soldiers were integrated with their Army for a year’s rotation, and vice versa.