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Falkland Island’s delegation with over forty athletes will participate in NatWest Island Games in Bermuda

Tuesday, May 7th 2013 - 02:00 UTC
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The full squad of competitors representing the Falkland Islands at the upcoming NatWest Island Games taking place in Bermuda from July 13 to 19 has been announced. Read full article

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  • LEPRecon

    This headline is wrong! Someone has 'bad' English here.

    You don't 'dispute' sporting events, you 'compete' in them. You only dispute them if there is a decision made about the outcome that you disagree with.

    May 07th, 2013 - 08:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • M_of_FI

    @1 - I just think MP are too used to running stories about Argentina and therefore every story is about disputing....

    May 07th, 2013 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • dab14763

    It was written by someone whose first language is Spanish, not English.

    May 07th, 2013 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Escoses Doido

    Hey, I'm Cancer too.....

    May 07th, 2013 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    And to Buenos Aires rage, they will not be competing under some bogus appeasement flag for “Argentine Port Stanley” like a certain other country has to. The must be eating their heart out.

    May 07th, 2013 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • britanico

    You mean Taiwan (aka 'Republic of China') competing at the Olympics as 'Chinese Taipei'? If being politically isolated means being like Taiwan, I think the Falklands could live with that!

    May 07th, 2013 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    its only games,
    great fun and good competition,
    go
    enjoy
    come home safe.

    May 07th, 2013 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    @6. Competing ANYWHERE as “Chinese Taipei” It's not just the olympics.

    May 07th, 2013 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LEPRecon

    I see that they've updated the headline into more understandable English. :)

    May 07th, 2013 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    LEPRecon

    Someone at Mercopress reads our comments? Hmmm quite amusing really.

    They either want to claw their eyes out by the end of the day and kick their dog when they get home.

    Or...

    They laugh their arses off all day at work.

    Though I sometime wonder if they don't also post to ramp up discussion and increases visits to the site..... could Think actually live in Montevideo perhaps?

    May 07th, 2013 - 09:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • M_of_FI

    With some of the comments from the usual suspects (Dany, Malen, Think, Marcos, Jose, etc) you would have to say it is the latter Anglotino!

    May 08th, 2013 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Raul

    Malvinas Peoples:
    A million signatures for bilateral dialogue:

    Peoples Malvinas “seeks to give social depth of continental mass to the Cause Falklands.'s One million signatures will be presented to the UN Secretary General, looking” people fill the UN “to highlight the crisis of representation system this international organization, highly conditioned by geopolitical bids of the permanent members of the Security Council, especially the UK.'s one million signatures aims to create a political precedent in an international organization where ”people” does not take place, but whose decisions seriously affect their long-term collective future. Y Malvinas is a question of the future.

    See the following link:

    www.pueblospormalvinas.com

    www.pueblospormalvinas.org

    May 09th, 2013 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @12
    “Malvinas Peoples:
    A million signatures for bilateral dialogue:”

    There will be a problem with this petition if none of the signatories are born in the Falkland Islands-the UN will flush it down the toilet.

    In other words a load of RGs signing a petition relating to a completely different country is a waste of effort-it will get nowhere.

    But hey, go ahead if your country wants yet another failure.

    May 09th, 2013 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • malicious bloke

    It's a great historical precedent though. Hey maybe if we get enough signatures we can get Kyrgyzstan to give us their country.

    On second thoughts, I'm not sure international law works that way ^_^

    May 10th, 2013 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse +1

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