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Old 05-19-2004, 16:10 PM   #16 (permalink)
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If they were planning to attack the Olympic's, the plans would be complete by now
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Old 05-19-2004, 16:51 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I really don't see how waving a flag is going to inscite a terrorist attack. The majority of terrorist attacks are well planed and are not spur of the moment. After all you need to plan to bring a firearm with you to the games, they won't bring it because an American might be waving a flag, but they will bring it with the intent of killing Americnans regaurdless if our people our waving flags.

The whole idea is rediculus.
How would they know you're an American?
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Old 05-19-2004, 17:04 PM   #18 (permalink)
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How would they know you're an American?
I have a flag patch on my cap.
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Old 05-19-2004, 17:40 PM   #19 (permalink)
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We are talking about Athletes here not the people in the crowd.
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Old 05-19-2004, 18:14 PM   #20 (permalink)
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We are talking about Athletes here not the people in the crowd.

Note my response about people not hiding.
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Old 05-19-2004, 23:58 PM   #21 (permalink)
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No, making yourself a target or not is.
I'm willing to take the risk. I'm not forcing others to do the same.
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Old 05-20-2004, 00:04 AM   #22 (permalink)
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NEW YORK — American athletes have been warned not to wave the U.S. flag during their medal celebrations at this summer's Olympic Games in Athens, for fear of provoking crowd hostility and harming the country's already-battered public image.
The spectacle of victorious athletes grabbing a national flag and parading it around the stadium is a familiar part of international sporting competition, but U.S. Olympic officials have ordered their 550-strong team to exercise restraint and avoid any jingoistic behavior.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/natio...1028-9603r.htm

I did hear that American athletes and spectators were cautioned to wear
clothing that does not identify too strongly with the US (flag patches or clothing
incorporating stars-and-stripes motifs). Also that athletes were warned against
appearing too vainglorious (no "victory laps" carrying the flag, no "end-zone" dances, etc.)
This is stupid. USA has a right to be proud. Having set a benchmark for the rest of the world is quite an achievement.
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Old 09-06-2004, 04:27 AM   #23 (permalink)
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The U.S. media is soooooo full of B.S. as well as it's Olympic Organizers. I don't know how many of the 'hee haws' here own televisions BUT, EVERY SINGLE TIME an American Athlete won a medal (and they won plenty!!!)........guess what.........the majority Greek audience applauded because Greeks admire ALL athletes regardless of their nation or political\religious sects.

The U.S. fills it's citizens with paranoia and makes the people think that the whole world is out to get them. The truth is...nobody gives a **** (at least not the Europeans). So what if Americans were to wave their flags....so what if some person were to boo....


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harming the country's (Greece) already-battered public image
We should get one thing straight with this comment.....the only people who have a bad image of Greece are rednecks who are glued to watching Fox and CNN news. Europe and Asia LOVE Greece and from a geographical stand point...who gives a **** what American Media tries to say....
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Old 09-06-2004, 04:49 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Athletes represent their nations in the Olympics. Therefore i don't see any problem with waving flags on laps of honour.

The medal ceremony is a different matter and i think if athletes starting "improvising" on that, then unfortunate things may happen. We don't want to see any anthem being ignored by the crowd and so on, and i think competitors receiving medals should show respect to the olympics itself etc etc. After all it gets messy when people try to improvide (we have after all had nazi salutes, black panther salutes and so on).

As far as terroism goes, this has nothing to do with it. A US athlete is a US athlete, if a terrorist wanted to harm them they don't need a 5 foot flag to identify them.
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'hee haws'... ...rednecks
You better go read the rules for posting on this forum @ http://www.militaryaffairsboard.com/...ead.php?t=2232 .
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i think competitors receiving medals should show respect to the olympics itself
Exactly my position... That's 7 I believe.
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