The Olympic Games are now officially open. The opening ceremony hasn’t even occurred, the Olympic torch is still doing its rounds but Team GB have won their first game in women’s football.
Well, we don’t like doing things in order do we? Despite the great win, race relations overshadowed the opening games today with two headlining stories.
The North Korean football team walked off the pitch at Glasgow’s Hampden Park today in protest over South Korea’s flag appearing on screen against one of their footballers. The error left the games organiser’s apologetic and highly embarrassed during a week of errors.
Greek triple jump champion Voula Papachristou was banned for posting a racist joke on twitter reminding athletes to tweet respectfully or not at all. The 23-year-old Papachristou had written that “with so many Africans in Greece, at least the mosquitoes of West Nile will eat homemade food”.
Let’s hope Day 2 is better…..
Bunty
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