Eight Athletes From Cameroon Go Walkabout.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5602647/Eight-athletes-Cameroon-missing-Commonwealth-Games.html

[Old_Geezer]

I blame the Fosters. Must be quite an incentive to get into the team and then disappear if you aren't already Australian.

[mushroom25]

cameroon games participants have something of a history in this respect - in 2006 40 athletes from various nations (including Cameroon) went missing in Melbourne. of those, 2 from Cameroon were granted refugee status and are competing this year for Australia.

[Guilbert53]

Just wait till 2022 and the games are in Birmingham.

I am sure dozens and dozens will go missing.

[Bazile]

Will anyone want to seek asylum in Birmingham :-0 ?

[anotheoldgit]

Bazile

/// Will anyone want to seek asylum in Birmingham :-0 ? ///

No, it's full up with them already.

[ToraToraTora]

who can blame them?

[Mamyalynne]

I think it would be more surprising if no one went missing during a Commonwealth Games.

[jourdain2]

It keeps happening. There is an annual international music festival at Confolens (near where I used to live) and one year the whole Cameroon equipe disappeared! :)

[youngmafbog]

Probably happens at most international events.

[lindapalmara]

Quite a few asked for asylum (Camaroons I think) after the 2012 Olympics.