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anotheoldgit | 12:50 Mon 14th Apr 2014 | News
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2604086/Sierra-Leone-athlete-finished-20th-London-Marathon-disappears-flight-home.html

/// The Mail revealed that seventy claimed political asylum after the Olympics and more than have were given refugee status. ///

/// Last year police admitted they were still looking for 21 people who just vanished, with one official saying that some had competed then ‘simply wandered off to make a better life’ in Britain. ///

/// Those who failed to return home were from countries including the Ivory Coast, Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Cameroon and Sudan. ///

Perhaps Africans should be banned from future games here in the UK?
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I think an Engineer who can help to build a bridge or help to produce a Jet Engine, or special surgical instruments, is of more use to this country, that someone who can jump high, run fast, or throw a javelin etc.
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Hey almost forgot did I see someone show some support for the Daily Mail?
on that point AOG i wholeheartedly agree
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i think that could be construed as illegal.
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emmie

/// divebuddy, isn't that what passports are for. If 50 athletes come into the country, from whatever part of the world, then unless they have a damn good reason, like broke a limb, or had a heart attack, then 50 should be on the plane home ///

That's if one can catch them, don't forget how fast they can run. :0)
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/// i think that could be construed as illegal. ///

Hence the phrase 'illegal immigrant'.
they have team managers, coaches, they are the ones who are looking after these athletes, its their responsibility to make sure they are all accounted for, after all what happens if one is sick and no one knows, and is left behind
illegal in what divebuddy was suggesting, if you read what he said
/you said who had heard of an engineer/

no i didn't emmie

i said

/the relatively new footbridge near St Pauls

who knows the names of any of the engineers? or cares? /

:-)
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/an Engineer who can help to build a bridge or help to produce a Jet Engine, or special surgical instruments, is of more use to this country, that someone who can jump high, run fast, or throw a javelin etc. /


Not if you're entering a team in the Olympics LOL

It's a silly comparison of course

we need both

So declining the offer of 21 'top flight athletes' on the grounds they may not be engineers, doctors or nurses is probably silly too.
we don't need any more illegals, and if she or anyone else absconds, then that is what they will be.
and they could deprive the young talent already here, waiting for their turn.
How well did these "top athletes" perform in the games?
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Eve

/// She isn't missing any more. ///

Yes she is, according to your link it was a mistake.
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Why issue them with a 6 month visa for a one day event?
aog

6 months is the standard length for 'short' visas:

for business, tourist, sports etc

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