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Olympic Committee “glad” Argentina will avoid politically tainted demonstrations
The head of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge assured he was “glad” that President Cristina Fernández had called the Argentine athletes to avoid demonstrations over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute during the Olympic Games of London 2012. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIn other words they told them to effing behave themselves or they'd be booted out.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0It seems they have the sense to backpeddle without having the guts to admit they screwed up in the first place.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 06:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0A lot of behind the scenes diplomacy versus CFK's uncontrollable mouth.
Well thevArgentine's have promised to behave, but they make many promises that they have broken.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 07:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0I hope the Argentine athletes are above the cheap politics of CFK and her cronies and have a good games. This is about competing with your peers in friendship, and while it's nice to win, surely it's the honour is representing your country that's important.
However if Argentina does misbehave then poor Mr Rogge might get cramp writing out all those disqualifications, plus they'll forfeit any medals they would've won.
Well when you pump that much botulism into it you never know when the poison might choose to leak out again.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 07:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0They should have been banned for producing that offensive advert. Instead of issuing an apology, they just back-stabbed Fernando Zylberberg and dropped him from the team, as he had become a liability.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 07:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0I hope the Argentine team behave themselves and have a good time. Failing that we'll all be slow clapping them as they're rounded up and sent home.
The Vaca Loco has been very quiet lately.... what's up?
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0The fact that Rogge has accepted CFK's assurances of no demonstrations, only demonstrates how gullible the IOC are. He seems to forget that it was CFKs Government that paid for the advertisement and continued to show it, even after there was worldwide condemnation of it.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 08:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Although most Argentine athletes will be pleased and excited to be appearing in London 2012 and would not do anything to upset their medal chances, there is bound to be a poor misguided fool (similar to the hockey player) who believes he has no chance of a medal and thinks that he'll become a hero at home for making a political statement about the Falklands.
Sadly, it will be the real athletes who suffer because of this idiot and the one in the Casa Rosada.
So Argentina have, in advance of the games, actually promised to obey the rules. How novel.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 09:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Or could it be that the IOC have made it clear that it won't buy the idea that any political action wouldn't be by one rogue athlete, and that the whole team (and the Argentine Olympic Committee) would be held accountable, with as much chance of leniancy as the British Virgin Islands team have of winning more than two medals?
The IOC need to be handed the little booklet of “How Argtards go about their business”.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is simply a lie to add a veneer of respectability but more importantly a sense of plausible deniability. When one or more of athletes, having been secretly prompted/paid by CFK's government goes and does something inappropriate the Argtards can then point to this promise and claim it was “against official instructions” and said athlete was just acting alone.
Expecting honest dealing and obediance of basic rules and common courtesy of an Argentine is like expecting an earthworm to use a knife and fork...you can spend your whole life observing and waiting for it to happen but ultimately they're biologically incapable of it.
@7 Unfortunately, I think he's short on choices. Either he accepts CFK's assurances (not made to him by CFK in person, you notice) or he simply bans the argie team. The latter would be a little difficult as they don't seem to have breached the Olympic Charter or IOC rules. Yet. Hopefully, the argie team will be watched closely, not a single incident will be ignored and no excuses will be accepted. Given what argies are like, I'm sure we can count on them to screw things up for themselves.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is all a storm in a tea cup. If the Argentine athletes want to stage some sort of incident then let them get on with it. It'll spice things up to have a pantomime villian sports team to throw tomotoes at.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0A few Argentinians making some token political points over the Falkland Islands at the Olympic Games is the least of our worries. Personally I couldn't care less.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0The IOC are a bunch of hypocrites, they say “no mixing sport and politics” but were happy to put on a propaganda fest for Hitler in 1936, for the Mexican government which had just slaughtered hundreds of protesters in 1968, and now for some of the least ethical companies in the world, like Dow Chemicals who manufactured Agent Orange and still refuse to pay up for their liability for the Bhopal disaster, who get to be “Olympic sponsors”. I will blow muchos besos to Cristina's “uncontrollable mouth” the more she annoys these villains!
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13 BK
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are a muppet.
In 1936 what had Hitler (Nazi's) done to warrant exclusion from the Olympic games? Yes they had arrested most of their political adversies and strangled the free Press, but they hadn't started on their murderous path.
By your own 'standards' China, Russia, Iran etc... Should also be or have been excluded in the past.
The division of politics from Sport is seen as essential. None of the aforementioned countries ever tried to push a political point at the Olympics, and if Argentina is stupid enough to try, then they'll have to live with the consequences. If even one athlete misbehaves, the whole team could find itself on the next flight out, and their medals confiscated.
An athlete whose spent their whole lives training for a chance to represent their country at the games, would be stupid to even try it, as it would end their sporting career.
It's interesting to see what they will do. If they do demonstrate it won't affect Britain or the Falkland Islands, and it would show that Argentina is a country that can't keep it's word (shock there).
They could even be banned from future Olympic and other international sporting events, including the World Cup. I'm sure that would go down well with the Argentine fans.
#14 The Nazis were well on their way to war in 1936, and had already passed the Nuremburg Laws disinfranchising the Jews and paving the way to the Holocaust. Interesting that you defend them...
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0if CFK had got her athletes to demonstrate,
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 01, they would have been sent home in disgrace
2, CFK would be humiliated on the world stage,[but a hero in argentina]
3, she would have been ridiculed, and dumped.
4 if she had a case, she would take it to the ICJ .
5, she has no case, no morals , no shame , and no pride .
@15 - BK
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't defend them, but I do point out that in 1936 the Nazi's hadn't done anything worse than the Soviet Union (murdered millions of people), China (Tianeman Square massacre), Argentina (the Dirty War) or many other countries.
Yes they were oppressing certain sections of society, but in 1936 no one (except Churchill and they didn't believe him) had an inkling of what was to come.
20-20 hindsight is always so clear, isn't it?
But the point IS that none of these countries used the Olympics as a platform to further their own political agenda. Agentina has been warned, and will therefore have to accept the consequences of any such action. Preferably without crying about it afterwards. As I said they have been warned.
And BK you are still a muppet.
@15 Come on, argies. Do your thing. I want to see you drown in saliva and vomit. Don't criticise the nazis now. Remember how much they have contributed to “your” country. Don't be ungrateful. They've taught you about the “Big Lie”. They've taught you how to lie. They've taught you about “suppression”. How to exterminate “inconvenient” opposition. How to “evacuate” an aircraft in flight. How to “make” money from the unsuspecting. Bit like how the SS “recovered” items in the death camps.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0www.chagossupport.org.uk/sign-the-petition-to-let-the-chagossians-return-2172
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To all our British friends:
- If you believe in democracy respecting human rights.
- If you believe in respecting the right of Chagos Islanders to determine their own future in their home land.
- If you want the UK to stop violating several articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- If you believe that the indigenous Chagossian, who have suffered for over 45 years, must be allowed to return to their homeland, the Chagos Islands, without further delay.
Sign the petition calling on the British government to work to allow the banished Chagossian people to return home immediately.
The peoples of the world who believes in democracy, human rights and self determination will be thankful.
Thank you!
Fictional Islands
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is about the Olympic games, please keep to the topic.
@19 Although I agree with you (shock, horror, call the papers), I would like to point out that it really isn't that simple. Diego Garcia is part of British Indian Ocean Territory, but despite this the government can't just bring them back. The reason for this is the large American military base on the islands. The construction of this base was the very reason for the relocation of the Chagossian population. It was at the height of the Cold War where few people could be trusted, so it was essential for us to maintain good relations with our allies. The Chagossians should be allowed to return, and but for the American military base they never would have left. The only way for the Chagossians to return is if the Americans dismantle their base and leave, and, well... you can have that conversation with them.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Arizona Republic newspaper edition of 7/23/12 announced the big problem USA citizens are encountering in London is trying to understand the UK english which is so difficult to understand.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's not just the pronunciation, but that repulsive acccent and words such as from antennae (aerials) to zits (spots) cuppa ( cup of tea).
This is something Conor Luden-Brown needs to explain.
@ 21 Thank you for agreeing with me. I assume you´ve signed the petition.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It´s the UK who “relocated” islanders for the US to stablish their base. So the UK must have that conversation with them.
Thank you for supporting human rights!
@23 I was using a figure of speech. What I meant by it was that the Americans are unlikely to take kindly to being unceremoniously booted off an island which has significant strategic importance.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@24 Totaly agree. Just like the UK in Malvinas. You don´t believe they really support “self determination”, do you?
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Never mind sussie - keep on spitting the hatred.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I find you repulsive and vile in return. Your english isn't as good as you seem you think it is either. I bet your accent is quite grating - you probably have your volume control stuck at 11 - it's one more than 10.......
I find the cockney accent and rhyming slang amusing - I work with a Londoner, and my grandad came from that kneck of the woods, I hope it gives the US visitors a laugh.
Lets try some rhyming slang for sussie to work out: Starter for 10.....
Sussie is a merchant banker:
What does this mean? (don't spoil the fun for her guys).
I hope you get apoplexy and I look forward to your venomous and humourless response.
@Islas Malvinas - I support the chagosians right to return to their homes. You likewise support that right.
However, by that determination you should likewise support the desire of the Falklanders to remain free from Argentine rule. Otherwise would you not be guilty of double standards?
I am going out now to try and forget the £12 billion minimum cost of the games with a beer....................
Actually I do. As far as I'm concerned, the Falklanders have every right to be there and every right to exercise their right to self-determination, as all people do under the UN Charter. The Falklanders have lived in the Falklands for generations. Historical records show that the Falklands were not under Argentine but British sovereignty when the HMS Clio arrived, with a private settlement there with British permission on the islands. The Argentine garrison had arrived illegally two months previously and had murdered their commander in front of his family. They were pirates who had to be removed. The HMS Clio restored order and the soldiers were removed. The people however were not only allowed but encouraged to remain, and all except four who were family to the soldiers chose to stay. Then again, there were only around thirty of them. Their descendants form part of the Falklands population today, and want to remain British. The Falklands have no indigenous population so the current population are the closest thing to that. Argentina has no legal right to the islands. You're welcome to call them whatever you want when speaking Spanish, but when speaking English refer to them by the English (and internationally recognised) name. It is for these reasons that Britain does support self-determination in the islands, as they did long before oil was discovered in 2010.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 023 Islas Malvinas
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0do you belive the falklands have the rights of self determination, and argentina should leave them alone.
@22 Sussie
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There is a reason why the language that is spoken in England is called “English”
If you choose to speak “US English”, that's your choice but don't bitch and moan if you can't understand us. Same deal with Argentinian Spanish and Castillan
22
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's your point?
@13 BK
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I, too, think CFK's mouth could be “uncontrollable” - but probably more for physiological reasons
@22 SussieUS
Jul 24th, 2012 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0What tosh by jove. English accents go down a storm in the US of A. But there are english accents in many different styles, some good, some bad.
Londoners may be difficult to understand if they use 'cockney rhyming slang'...
Plates of meat - feet, Trouble and Strife -wife, Hank Marvin - starving,
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/
And the spanish accent is not great - especially singing voices (no offence to the lovely Penelope in this youtube clip)!
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/
#22
Jul 24th, 2012 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am afraid that all you have done is to emphasise how parochial some Americans are with languages and geography. The USA has many variations in accents from the clipped Bostonian and lyrical southern drawl to the nasal twang , which , to us in the UK, grates on our ears.
Without meaning to be offensive to our American cousins, Arizona and New Mexico are not the arbiters of phonetics.
So, Sussie, are you saying every accent from the UK is rubbish according to the population of the USA . If so, why are so many UK actors making a living in the US appearing on stage, TV and films if their accents are rubbish ? Answer, because they give a bit of class to the performance .
A survey revealed that Americans thought that a British accent made the speaker sound more intelligent than an American speaker.
Could this be a case of jealousy on your part.
From your somewhat peculiar grammar at times, I surmise that your accent would probably grate on the bulk of the UK posters here.
Over and out.
It’s just anti British pure and simple,
Jul 24th, 2012 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Londoners are great,
But sometimes even we have trouble understanding, Geordies ,
But there ya go,
If ya swim in the river, your bound to meet the same fish , but with different scalles .lol.
sound a bit fishy to me lol.
@22
Jul 24th, 2012 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Miss Sussie why did you bring mu name up? its Louden-Brown by the way not Luden.
I guess to the dictators in olympics will only support the political staging if it was perpetrated by white racist or jews. What ever happens to freedom to protest and International warranties on democracy and liberties, boycott the olimpics and change the channel if you don't wants to watch perverts.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0F - the IOC and F - the olympics. If CFK had any balls she would pulled out entirely out of that turpitudinous cesspool.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 037
Jul 24th, 2012 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0F this.... F that.... no balls..... pulling out....turpitude.....
You need to get yourself a boyfriend.
@38
Jul 24th, 2012 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Truth hurts huh. Enjoy your bought games which surely will cost a few thousand British lives through diverted NHS funds in order to build a “syncronized swimming” training center.
You all sure have your priorities dotted and teed.
Won't be watching, to busy educating myself.
@36, “What ever happens to freedom to protest and International warranties on democracy and liberties”
Jul 24th, 2012 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ceased to be relevant the moment a country signed the olympic charter. Want to hold a faggy little protest? Then walk away from the olympics. Participation is voluntary but if you turn up you've already agreed to abide by the rules.
Although we know all about Argtardia's history with flagrantly disobeying agreements and treaties they've signed up to...
@40
Jul 24th, 2012 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is how DUMB the anti-argies are.
One the one hand, they claim freedom to protest ceases when you sign any agreement?
Then in the next breadth, they say Argentina disobeys agreements?
Do you understand we have the right to disregard your laws, the UK laws mean “shit” to us, and any agreements we sign with anyone in the world we can tear up, our choice, got it??
When you get married and sign that piece of paper, do you give up your rights to ever “withdraw” from the arrangement?
Argentina withdraws from treaties because they were imposed in a world order that seeks to keep a select group of countries with they lock and the key. We say screw you how about that?
@41 Fine, then we won't be expecting an Argentine team at the Olympics this year. Any Argentine athletes who arrive in Britain for the Olympics will be arrested and deported immediately. If you are not prepared to follow the diktats of the Olympic Charter which you signed over 100 years ago, then your country may not compete at the Olympics. Quite simple really. Also, British law might mean shit to you, but when your athletes are within this country's borders, they are expected to follow the law or they will be deported. Again, quite simple. You can tear up any agreements you like, but if you think that will make you any friends on the international stage, then you are sadly mistaken. If you follow agreements for as long as you see fit, then tear them up, no one will trust your word again. Britain on the other hand honours its agreements. Take the Anglo-Portuguese alliance for example. Currently the oldest alliance still in force, it has had many bumps and difficulties, including a period in the Anglo-Spanish War when Portugal was taken over by Spain and British and Portuguese soldiers briefly fought on opposite sides, but the alliance was never renounced and was fully reinstated once Portugal regained independence. That's what you call honour. A word completely alien to an Argentine.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 03:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@19 Nope. Your “petition” is based on lies. There have never been any indigenous Chagos Islanders. Reason? No fresh water. Anywhere in the archipelago. Without outside resources, human life is impossible. The Chagos Archipelago was originally “populated” by African slaves imported by the French. When slavery became “unacceptable” they were converted to contract labourers for a Mauritian company. Not one ever owned a single grain of earth or sand. When Britain bought the archipelago, it paid the government of Mauritius to resettle the inhabitants. Being corrupt, the government of Mauritius did nothing of the sort and pocketed the money. Britain has subsequently paid out more money in order to see “the people” properly provided for. But “the people” like the idea of sponging. Here's a thought. As you feel so sorry for them, why not take a Chagos Islander and his family into your home, if you've got one, and let them and their descendants sponge of you for the next hundred years or so?
Jul 24th, 2012 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@23 Fool. There are no such things as “human rights”. Example: “Declarations” of human rights always include the “right to life”. Now go to the nearest 10-storey skyscraper and jump off. On your way down, keep repeating “I have a human right to life.” Let's see how you do.
@25 Your “opinion” is not required. It has nothing to do with you. Keep your nose where it belongs. Shoved firmly up your a*se.
@36 and 37 As the saying goes “Takes one to know one”. The bully boys of a dictatorship are always the first to “recognise” a dictatorship. Racists and anti-semitics? We like the idea of democracy and liberty in the Falkland Islands. How about you? Please boycott the Olympics and keep your pervert team in your slums.
@37 “Turpitude” is an obsolete term. Even in America. How does it feel to be obsolete, TiT?
@39 Long way to go. 50 years maybe? You might then approach, not reach, my level.
@41 What a prick. It's an international agreement. But do f*** off.
So if TTT gets his way,
Jul 24th, 2012 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina will withdraw from the world cup then,
And all future sporting event,
As he has no interest in sports anymore it all crap,
Or is it more truthful, that its only crap, if the British are there,
Or because the British, will make this the greatest games ever,
And perhaps mr TTT is envious of us,
Perhaps the Empress CFK could do a better job .lol.
please, tell us the real reason .
#40 rules made for blacks, minorities and every other ball sucking slave, rules that never apply to white trash racist or jews. Interesting, I guess this is why people beheaded white trash and kill jews around the world to level things up, good work at making your world ever smaller.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#42 All Argentine's look forward to showing how a UK dictatorship can't hide behind a smoke screen called democracy and freedom anymore, and it would help CFK and Argentina a lot towards regaining our foot hold on Malvinas Argentina, brits need WMD, while Argentina uses politics lol take that to the bank, for this reason we Argentines support a nuclear defence program in Argentina, the only voice the entire world understands and fear. Argentina doesn't need to follow any paper we sign since none in the world expect us to do so, UK will be the lought of the entire world if they said Argentina signed a peper lol, you would be told good now use it to wipe you bum.
#43 I couldn't agree more with your point of view over human rights but if we can't quote human rights then right to self determination is even further from reality. So Argentina can actually put human right back where they belong and at the same time show UK that Argentina doesn't need WMD as UK does to make things right, all we need is our rights to peaceful demonstration to be taken seriously and the olimpics dictatorship should keep politics from the sport as they are the main instigator to make the olimpics a political arena. Sports people are civilians who are free from the contracts writen by the dictatorship and signed by nations, not civilians who are protected by international human rights laws, laws that can't be signed away by nations or corporates like olimpics. Freedom to a demonstration trumps self determination in any nook of law.
to white trash
Jul 24th, 2012 - 05:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so what colour do you describe argentines then,
@44
Jul 24th, 2012 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not at all, its a well known fact all Olympics are bought to the highest briber, I know you Brits can't admit it right now since you have the games this time, but wanna bet you have said this BEFORE and will say it AFTER in regards to other countries hosting the games? Its how the IOC works.
@42
You can't behave honorably with dishorable people, otherwise called “Europeans”.
Argentina should ask the OIC to not make the olimpics a stage to push a british political agenda and to respect the freedom to a peaceful demonstration of our sportsmen and citizens. We should demand the UK and IOC not to dictate or infringe on human rights and liberties.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Too late, it is nothing but a propaganda fest about Monarchical parlamentarianism, pre-emptive militarism, royalism, it is nauseating (watch the English language channels from the US or OZ, insane levels of propaganda). Same thing happened in China 2008, but hey, IOC's pockets are full of bribed cash, so in a way the Brits may get something in return of it.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We demand the IOC to not infringe on the rights to peaceful protest and not to arbitrarily dictate to civilians taking part in the sports. We will wear Malvinas Argentina shirt and there is nothing literally nothing
Jul 24th, 2012 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0IOC can do about it, unless they want to be labeled a dictatorship and make the olimpics a sporting joke and a stage for international politics. Congratulations IOC you have succeeded in staging yourself as a political corrupt arena.
@41, you have every right to withdraw from the agreement. The obvious consequence being that you don't send athletes to this, or any other, olympic event.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“When you get married and sign that piece of paper, do you give up your rights to ever “withdraw” from the arrangement?”
Not at all. As the analogy goes though, there are behavioural expectations that come with getting married. If you want to act like a dickhead and gleefully breach every vow you make then expect your partner to want a divorce...
“Argentina withdraws from treaties because they were imposed in a world order that seeks to keep a select group of countries with they lock and the key. We say screw you how about that?”
And that's why your country is a demented basketcase run by a plastic basketcase. If you don't like the conditions of the agreement, the simple act of “not signing” works better than signing it then arbitrarily going back on your word and making you and all your compatriots look like a right gyppo.
@51
Jul 24th, 2012 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And we care about how you judge us to be because...
hahaha.
You have to admit it, even in a small part I think that, even if somehow the Falklands matter was resolved, you all would still hate Argie because we simply do not like you, and don't want to be your friends. So that bugs you, which is why even when there has not been any meaningful news about the Falklands in a month, here you all remain... because these articles by Mercopress about Argentina's standing up against the rest of the world really boil you, you want us to be quiet and submissive. We don't obey and it irks you all.
LOL
Wow, that didn't sound brainwashy at all.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So what exactly have you done to “stand up against the world”? The entire idea is pretty laughable.
@39 TTT
Jul 24th, 2012 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0> Won't be watching, to busy educating myself.
Certainly got a big job on there.
@39 well you tit trawling trolley dolly the olympics are expected to generate 30 billion pounds to the British economy, the olympic village will go to housing, and the stadia will be used for the general public, except the main stadium which will probably be West hams new ground, which they will pay for by the way, so all in all win win, re development is a wonderful thing and you are a jealous tosser. Of course we could always use the money for another 6 type45 destroyers and still have a few billion in change, do one you pathetic green eyed monster, hope your bum drops off
Jul 24th, 2012 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We demand the IOC to not infringe on the rights to peaceful protest and not to arbitrarily dictate to civilians taking part in the sports. We will wear Malvinas Argentina shirt and there is nothing literally nothing
Jul 24th, 2012 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0IOC can do about it, unless they want to be labeled a dictatorship and make the olimpics a sporting joke and a stage for international politics. Congratulations IOC you have succeeded in staging yourself as a political corrupt arena.
@56
Jul 24th, 2012 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually Mr Hunter you are wrong, as much as I loathe and detest all this fucking commotion about the games I will at least want to see them succeed and not be messed around with. The olympics were designed to be non political and no one should be allowed to bring politics in to it. Argentina should not be allowed to protest and the UK should not be allowed to counter protest. If our athletes came to the olympics that were being held in Argentina with Falklands are British logo's there would be uproar from you Argentines's and you would be demanding that they be non-political. Let us watch the olympics for what they are- a sporting event., not a forum for countries to shout at each other. And if you reply with all that British this and homosexual that then i'm not replying.
I DEMAND the IOC give be bacon sandwiches three times a day for the rest of my life!
Jul 24th, 2012 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We can all dream about an international sporting organisation accomodating our unreasonable silliness...doesn't mean it's actually going to happen :)
@54 you'll still be trying in 2016 Brazil and still not suceeding, but you'll be interested because it's in LATAM and be the best thing ever, you are a dogs arse!!!!
Jul 24th, 2012 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#37
Jul 24th, 2012 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can presume that you will not enter any team when your big chum Brazil hosts the games next?
#45
“The games are bought by the highest briber.” A nice thing to say about your big successful neighbour. You are insulting the country who is your main ally and will attack the UK at your behest - or maybe not.
As the games come closer, your postings become more frenetic. Is this because - heaven forbid - some of your South American chums may actually enjoy the experience against your express wishes ?
What would you do if they actually preferred London to Buenos Aires.
I think you would probably self destruct in an apoplectic fit of rage.
If your hockey team do well I will say well done. Unlike you, we are mainly a magnanimous race, and leave jealousy and bitterness to 3d world countries who wish to be like us but cannot due to having no monies or class - as Sussie would say.
Now if that does not unleash a further round of venom by PH I will be disappointed
Please please Argentina, please like us. PLEASE!
Jul 24th, 2012 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chuckle chuckle
This site has really fucked you up TIT / Tobias. Or are you really Mike Bingham? I wonder. Now that you're showing your true colours you are demonstrating just how screwed up and jealous of us you are. LOL! Well tough shit!
Do you honestly think we want you to like us? FFS! We don't want you to like us we just- like most of the other countries in the South Atlantic- want you to behave like civil neighbours. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now go off and decide which of your multiple IDs you are going to log on with next.
Chuckle chuckle
All the athletes will remember these games,
Jul 24th, 2012 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They will try there very best to go home with a medal,
We say, good luck to all those that take part, and win medals, whoever they may be,
Then London can return to normal,
If you Argies cant at least, support your own people, let alone your continent,
Perhaps you do not deserve to host any games or competition ever,
[Thank god you guys don’t represent the real people]
[Just the odd balls]
It would be quite funny if, after all this raeg, argentina wins no medals at all.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 09:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps CFK would go and address the UN fisheries committee IN PERSON no less to demand a resolution against Britain to hand over all the medals Arg have AN INALIENABLE RIGHT TO then top it all off with some vapid conspiracy about how the alien/nazi nuclear silo underneath the falkland islands has a lead-lined trophy cabinet containing the medals we stole from those poor innocent argies...
The Olympics are costing us an absolute bloody fortune. No one ever really makes a profit from them. I'll believe all the propaganda we are being deluged with about the games leaving us a “legacy” in 10 years time - if the sites are'nt derelict......
Jul 24th, 2012 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We are bloody stuck with the whole cicrus - so I hope it goes well, so we can salvage something from the financial blowout.
I am glad that I live very far away from London.
At Truth Telling Troll: I feel the same about you - everything that my country does does irks yours and makes your blood boil gets my thumbs up. I too recognise we are in a zero-sum game with you lot. You are the enemy. Every time we gain something you lose, and vice versa.
If you hate the Olympics it just makes me like them a little more.
http://falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/snub-or-climb-down/
Jul 24th, 2012 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
I've hated the olympics even before this one. I could actually prove it by posting a rant of mine about the Beijing Olympics in another forum 4 years ago, but that would pose a security risk to my anonimity.
Jul 25th, 2012 - 12:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0@55
Broke countries don't know they are broken, until they are.
All your Olympics and new military come at a time when the rest of Europe is doing the OPPOSITE: downsizing their militaries (Germany, Italy, France, Spain all downsizing), and there's the UK pretending they are in a financially different planet as the other major European countries, pretty funny.
Until 2009, Greece had a 150% GDP-debt ratio but had no problem with that debt load, then suddenly they did. So keep at it guys, with this Libor deal shaking confidence (and before that the rumours of the stealth default by changing inflation-gauges for UK bonds), you are slowly destroying your reputation. The only reason it is not more visible is that the cabal of the FT and Economist hush it and don't report on these things, as they have no ethics or courage to report on such matters when it is their own country being called into question, but eventually it will all snowball and puff...
But you will have the new carrier to house some homeless people when the real crisis Mr. Roubini is expecting four you all up there really hits.
TTT66 - if you botherd to check you will see that since 2010 Britain has also been Downsizing its military overall!!!!! That does not mean you cannot at the same time modernize it - its a silly country that does not keep it,s military(However big or small) - up to date.
Jul 25th, 2012 - 01:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not that anyone actually believes Argentinian assurances about anything, but at least there will be dancing in the streets in London with the news that the La Plata whore wont be attending the Olympics opening ceremony.
Jul 25th, 2012 - 08:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina seems to delude itself that it is somehow punishing the UK by not attending, but the truth of it is that she won’t be missed and that no-one in the free world will even notice that the saggy old bag isn't there. To be honest, the free world would rather that Argentina wasn't even represented at the Olympics, but unfortunately the UK insists on playing by the rules and allowing Argentina to compete ... a display of sportsmanship that would be unheard of in Argentina.
#65 The Telegraph is wrong, I will greatly miss Cristina (not that I expected she would come, why would she?)
Jul 25th, 2012 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#69
Jul 25th, 2012 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why would she come? To see you of course. It must be so something of earth shattering importance to keep her from your side. Never mind, you can still worship from afar and dream of the day when you will be united in mutual love and admiration.
Or, could there be a palace coup if she left the country ?
#70 Why would any hands on world leader up sticks for the London Olympics, its not like they're in China this time! I was surprised to see a paper saying 100 heads of state and governmnet would come, but the small print said that included princes! I understand Dilma coming as she'll (still, in 2016, I predict) be running the next venue. Cristina coming would have been cool but i imagine she has better things to do!
Jul 25th, 2012 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@70
Jul 25th, 2012 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting point-she has trouble at home so this snub (who cares?) is probably a cover to stop the unions causing mayhem if she is out of the country.
Its another protest about the Falklands, but she knows she has angered the IOC with her cheap stunt, and her inability to research history or do the sensible thing and communicate with the FIs, will make her actions meaningless and as inneffective as lighting hexi-blocks on the top of Mt Harriet.
if she came , she could well be arrested.
Jul 25th, 2012 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ya never know,
@71
Jul 26th, 2012 - 07:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0She isn't coming Mr BK as she is so stubborn and stuck and arrogant about the Falklands issue that she's thinks going to this venue is a sign of Weakness, she is a pathetic tramp of a women and she plays the part of a stereotypical politician perfectly, put your faith in someone else.
#74 I ask again, how many real hands on world leaders are actually coming? She's certainly nothing like your average British politician, she's far too politically skilled for that!
Jul 26th, 2012 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0@66 TTT
Jul 26th, 2012 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'that would pose a security risk to my anonimity'
Methinks you are taking yourself too seriously. I don't care who you are. It's your opinion that counts (as long as it agrees with mine).
@74
Jul 26th, 2012 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How many well about 50 or so I believe, including most of her Latam colleagues. I guarantee you that if there was no sovereignty dispute over the islands then she would be here. Oh and by the way she is exactly the same as our politicians. She is corrupt, a manipulator and a proven liar. Never trust a politician like that ever, you silly fool.
@ Truth telling troll,
Jul 27th, 2012 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I rarely comment on anything on this site, but......
I must say you crack me up. Have you ever thought of a career in comedy?
Please NEVER stop posting, you are one of the funniest people I have ever come across. In fact, you and BK have become something of celebrities at my work place.
@75
Jul 29th, 2012 - 12:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0If she had any intelligence or political skills , instead of trying to convince several billion people to support Argentina, she would talk to JUST 3000 people, and persuade them it would be in their interests to be Argentine. She has not the skills for this.
I have not a lot of time for British politicians, but she makes them look GOOD.
What the hell have migrating birds got to do with sovereignty????????
Just one of her loony pronouncements that had the world laughing.
She has accused the UK of deploying Trident submarines in the South Atlantic. That is beyond stupid.
She feels that a prince flying an unarmed search and rescue helicopter, is a military threat. Another stupidity that even a Britsh politician would not utter.
She tells lies about Falkland Islands history to the UN.
But most stupid of all , if she really possesed any intelligence she would be talking to the Falkland Islanders personally, rather than stick her neck in the sand like an ostrich pretending they do not exist.
She should observe, look, and take in that Falkland Islanders are not going anywhere, and the more they are bullied , the more they will resist and dig their heels in, not capitulate.
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