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Olympics 2012: Greece kicks triple-jumper Voula Papachristou off team for mocking African immigrants on Twitter
With a 140 character message, triple jumper Voula Papachristou leaped her way out of the London Olympics and into an international spotlight she did not anticipate.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee expelled Papachristou from the team after the 23-year-old Greek mocked African immigrants on her Twitter account. The committee said that Papachristou was "placed outside the Olympic team for statements contrary to the values and ideas of the Olympic Movement."
While gearing up for her first Olympic games on Sunday, Papachristou commented on the reported influx of West Nile mosquitos in Athens. She tweeted in Greek, "With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food!!!" Her tweet provoked a bevy of ill responses, and many Greeks called for her dismissal from the Olympic team.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olympics-2012/olympics-2012-greece-kicks-triple-jumper-voula-papachristou-team-mocking-african-immigrants-twitter-article-1.1121461#ixzz21j0w0JtX
With a 140 character message, triple jumper Voula Papachristou leaped her way out of the London Olympics and into an international spotlight she did not anticipate.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee expelled Papachristou from the team after the 23-year-old Greek mocked African immigrants on her Twitter account. The committee said that Papachristou was "placed outside the Olympic team for statements contrary to the values and ideas of the Olympic Movement."
While gearing up for her first Olympic games on Sunday, Papachristou commented on the reported influx of West Nile mosquitos in Athens. She tweeted in Greek, "With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food!!!" Her tweet provoked a bevy of ill responses, and many Greeks called for her dismissal from the Olympic team.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olympics-2012/olympics-2012-greece-kicks-triple-jumper-voula-papachristou-team-mocking-african-immigrants-twitter-article-1.1121461#ixzz21j0w0JtX
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The triple jumper stood by her comments on Tuesday, tweeting, "That's how I am. I laugh. I am not a CD to get stuck!!! And if I make mistakes, I don't press the replay! I press Play and move on!!!"
Papachristou backed away from that stance when her trip to London was cut short before it even started. She apologized on Facebook and Twitter Wednesday morning and called her joke "unfortunate and tasteless."
LMFAAAAO Stupid ass ? . -
the Olympics takin' place about 3 minutes from my house...Damn tourists and Olympians just walkin' around, congestin' the ? outta the place
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I swear twitter is a PR's nightmare lol.
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I'm gonna get called racially insensitive, but thats not that bad.
She dumb for standing by the comment, then saying sorry. Should have said I'm sorry you're offended, but I'm not sorry I said it at the very most. -
was actually funny...but maybe the greeks should stop beggin germany for food
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Self-ether at its finest.
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I applaud Greece...
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Imagine hitting that from the back in that position lawddd!
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I'd beat...
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Thulsa Doom wrote: »
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Imagine hitting that from the back in that position lawddd!
Damn and of all the places we went Greece was the coolest. Well tied with Turkey. -
CeLLaR-DooR wrote: »the Olympics takin' place about 3 minutes from my house...Damn tourists and Olympians just walkin' around, congestin' the ? outta the place
You smoke piff? -
-Vincenzo- wrote: »was actually funny...but maybe the greeks should stop beggin germany for food
lol thats true, germany damn near keeping the whole EU alive -
northside7 wrote: »CeLLaR-DooR wrote: »the Olympics takin' place about 3 minutes from my house...Damn tourists and Olympians just walkin' around, congestin' the ? outta the place
You smoke piff?
Of course... -
@Cellar-Door, must be woat where you live right now, I see the city came to stand still yesterday with the olympic lanes.
That greek chick would luv some black ? ...I'd beat. -
She can get it
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I swear the Olympics can not start any sooner.
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Usain Bolt will disappoint.
May still win a gold, but not in the 100meters -
Imagine hitting that from the back in that position lawddd!
Bruh, look closely in between her legs.....da ? is that?
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CeLLaR-DooR wrote: »the Olympics takin' place about 3 minutes from my house...Damn tourists and Olympians just walkin' around, congestin' the ? outta the place
THATS ? IS GONE BE WORST THAT HAVIN FREAKNIK BY YOUR HOUSE.. BUT YO ASS BETTER MAKE SOME MONEY OFF OF THEY ASS, SOME WAY!
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This is where I live...White folk EVERYWHERE these days...fillin' up the buses and the trains...and Westfield?..(the new shoppin' centre next to the Olympic Park)...Forget about it...? ' myth
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lol at Spain bein' a goal down to Japan