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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 11-08-2001 @ 10:32 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | Fuck the Olympics and Fuck Afghanistan, no way we should stop. Even if it means that we should pull out of the winter olympics, we should not stop, until Osama and his crew are dead. LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will call for a truce in the Afghan conflict during next February's Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Wednesday. But Rogge reaffirmed that there was no question of the Feb. 8-24 Games being called off. He told a news conference that the IOC was committed to the Games after meeting world soccer chief Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, at IOC headquarters. "They will go on," he said. But Rogge said the IOC would ask all countries around the world locked in armed struggles, including those involved in the Afghan conflict, to observe a cease-fire for the duration of the Games. "We will as usual call for an Olympic truce," he said. A U.S.-led military alliance has launched strikes against Afghanistan in response to the Sept. 11 attacks on Washington and New York. An IOC spokeswoman noted that the Olympic movement had traditionally asked countries involved in wars to stop fighting when the Games were taking place. Rogge's predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch, flew to Sarajevo in 1994 to seek a pause in the Balkans conflict before the winter games in Lillehammer, Norway. Rogge, a Belgian doctor who took over from the long-serving Samaranch as head of the IOC in July, said canceling the Games would make sport a casualty of violence. "We believe that sport is an answer to violence and should not be a victim of violence," he said. "In the Olympic village you have all the athletes of the world coming together. At a time when some people try to create divisions in the world, we believe that sport can unite." After the Sept. 11 attacks, Rogge said that Olympic truces had achieved results during past Games, but added that a truce was very difficult to implement. Security at the Olympics has been a high priority since 11 Israelis were killed at the Munich Games in 1972, and the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics that killed one person. Rogge said last week that the 2002 Winter Olympics would witness the tightest security in the history of the Games.  | ||||
| NASA | posted on 11-08-2001 @ 11:08 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 01 | I don't recall the terrorists holding back on attacking civilians during Sept. 11, why should we hold back for a commercial sporting event? The IOC has gotten away with whatever they've wanted for a while now but this is something they won't win. edit1 -- And I am sure the terrorists will be plotting attacks against us just as vigorously during this time. So why let our guard down? If we somehow get attacked during that time we would have egg on our faces. It isn't America that the IOC should be looking at to stop this. America has no control over it. We are just doing what we have to do to avenge bin Laden's "Acts of War."  GodBlessAmerica. This message was edited by NASA on 11-8-01 @ 11:31 AM | ||||
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