Sexy Blonde Olympian Ousted For Being Proud of Her Heritage

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Papachristo has been expelled from the London Games by Greece for her Twitter comments on African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right party.

Papachristou was to compete in her first Games. The 23-year-old is from Athens.

The IOC has strict guidelines on what athletes can say in social media. This is the first case of an athlete being expelled from an Olympics for social media use.

The Tweet that got Papachristou in trouble was posted July 22: "So many Africans in Greece at least West Nile mosquitoes will eat homemade food"

Fifty-four people marked it as a "favorite" on Twitter.

She apologized on Twitter and Facebook, saying that her comment was a joke. "I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the unfortunate and tasteless joke I published on my personal Twitter account. I am very sorry and ashamed for the negative responses I triggered, since I never wanted to offend anyone, or to encroach human rights.

"My dream is connected to the Olympic Games and I could not possibly participate if I did not respect their values. Therefore, I could never believe in discrimination between human beings and races."

http://www.usatoday..../1?csp=FBSports

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"So many Africans in Greece at least West Nile mosquitoes will eat homemade food"

"I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there"

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"I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there"

You think that's funny?

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You think that's funny?

You must have had your funny bone surgically removed at a hippie commune if you don't.

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I think they should make here wear the same uniform the original Olympic athletes from her country used to wear as punishment

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"I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there"

I didn't laugh.

Definitely not funny enough to get expelled from the Olympics for.

What a moron.

Edited July 25, 2012 by Evylin

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Now, she would have made the Olympics worth watching, all by herself.

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Now, she would have made the Olympics worth watching, all by herself.

Damn, she's hot. And a good sense of humor, too.

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Kinda lame joke, hard to believe she got the boot over that.

Wonder if she said the same joke with a European country as the butt if the reaction would be the same.

The problem this organization has is..... they don't want to get in the position of making judgement calls to decide these things. Comparing this jokes severity to that joke or comment.

The Athletes are warned ahead of time and they should know the meter is going to be set on high.

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Kinda lame joke, hard to believe she got the boot over that.

Wonder if she said the same joke with a European country as the butt if the reaction would be the same.

The problem this organization has is..... they don't want to get in the position of making judgement calls to decide these things. Comparing this jokes severity to that joke or comment.

The Athletes are warned ahead of time and they should know the meter is going to be set on high.

The West Nile joke wouldn't really work with a European country.

"So many Germans in Greece at least West Nile mosquitoes will eat homemade food"

No... doesn't work

She might be able to make a joke about all the EU tourism Greece is getting because holidays there are now so cheap.

More likely, someone from Germany or France will make a "poor man of Europe" joke about the Greeks.

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I read this earlier. She also did some other questionable things. She is not who should be representing Greece.

As well as the comment on Sunday referring to the West Nile virus and Africans living in Greece, Papachristou had also reposted a tweet by Ilias Kasidiaris, a politician with the far-right Golden Dawn party, criticising Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's stance on immigration.

She had previously retweeted several links to videos promoting the views of Golden Dawn, which won 7% of the vote in Greece's recent elections, and had directly communicated online with Mr Kasidiaris.

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The athlete's remarks had prompted calls from the public and within the Greek government for her to be thrown out of the team.

The head of the Greek committee, Isidoros Kouvelos, said the 23-year-old had "showed no respect for the basic Olympian value".

"She made a mistake and in life we pay for our mistakes," he told Skai TV.

Earlier in the week, Papachristou had responded online, saying "that's how I am" and that she was not like a stuck CD: "If I make mistakes, I don't press the replay! I press Play and move on!"

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There's a lot of far right stuff going on in Greece because their economy is stagnant and they're chained to EU financial controls. There's massive unemployment and Greek government are tied to a EU mandated debt reduction program.

It's no surprise that things are heading in that direction.

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The West Nile joke wouldn't really work with a European country.

"So many Germans in Greece at least West Nile mosquitoes will eat homemade food"

No... doesn't work

She might be able to make a joke about all the EU tourism Greece is getting because holidays there are now so cheap.

More likely, someone from Germany or France will make a "poor man of Europe" joke about the Greeks.

But, she is blonde. No one is expecting her to be witty, or clever.

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She got kicked out because she supports a political party that got 7% of the vote in her country?

Ummm... that's nuts. Unless we're gonna start calling them the liberal Olympics.

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There's a lot of far right stuff going on in Greece because their economy is stagnant and they're chained to EU financial controls. There's massive unemployment and Greek government are tied to a EU mandated debt reduction program.

It's no surprise that things are heading in that direction.

That might be the case, she should have realized that she cannot question the government though. She is representing Greece to the world.