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someone_else On August 30, 2012
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#1New Post! Aug 10, 2012 @ 16:15:36
"That's what the headlines in the West African nation of Cameroon call the athletes who walked away from the Olympic village at the London Games.
The Cameroon athletes -- five male boxers, a female footballer and a male swimmer -- walked away from the Olympic village last week, immediately raising questions about their intentions."

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"Since the 1996 Games in Atlanta, dozens of athletes from Cameroon have defected."

https://www.cnn.com/2012/08/10/world/africa/olympics-cameroon-missing-athletes/index.html


I heard about this second hand so initially I thought they didn't show up. That they'd left Cameroon and didn't show up anywhere else. I wonder now why Cameroon continues to send athletes to the Olympics with the knowledge that they are likely to defect.

Are they trying to help them by getting them out? Or have they just not learned from their history?
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