Athlete Paraskevi Papachristou has been expelled from Greece's Olympic team for posting an offensive comment about African immigrants on Twitter, a team spokeswoman said Wednesday.
"With so many Africans in Greece, the mosquitoes from the West Nile will at least be eating some homemade food," Papachristou said on Twitter.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee ruled Papachristou, a triple jumper, would be barred from participating in the London Olympics that begin Friday.
"She made a mistake but it was serious," the spokesman said. "It was unforgivable."
Seems a little heavy handed to me. How about banning the Islamic athletes who are such poor sports that they refuse to compete against Israeli athletes?
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Ridiculous. You cannot assume. It was an ethnic joke. I don't even want to watch the olympics now. I have heard all kinds of ethnic jokes including ones about whites. Being PC is not consistent you don't even get a fair trial or even asked what you meant.
FredHayek wrote: How about banning the Islamic athletes who are such poor sports that they refuse to compete against Israeli athletes?
To be specific, they were Iranian athletes.
The debate may be a purely symbolic one: Iranian athletes are unlikely to face Israelis in competition at all, with the two countries sending few Olympians in the same categories, according to Israeli media.
