AIBU to expect this to be predicted and provisions put in place to prevent it happening!

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just read on BBC website that 7 of the Cameroon Olympic team have absconded and gone 'missing'

So, where are they? Did the olympic committee not think this might happen?

Really?

bugger! I lost my bet as to who would go 'missing' first!

Who was your first bet? An Ethiopian child torch beater has apparently gone missing too

Beater? Obviously 'bearer'!

The have 6 month visas. They have done nothing wrong until the visas expire.

Was that an Ethiopian child that beats torches, or someone who beats Ethiopian children with torches?

So it's ok that they aren't around for the closing ceremony and other organised Olympic events which Cameroon have committed to? They may have visas but they are supposed to be at the Olympic village

Well, what would they have done? It's not really reasonable to have 24hr security guarding them and as someone else said, they haven't actually done anything wrong yet...

Eh? Does this happen a lot then?

Yes, it's reasonably common at international sporting events held in developed countries.

Can you blame them?

Interesting piece on Woman's Hour the other day about women athletes absconding to claim asylum/"hide out" in host countries during international sporting events.

Here

i dont understand your upset tbh. how does it affect you?

I feel sorry for them that their lives are in such turmoil that they have to do this

Yes it does Happen all the time, which is why I would think a closer eye is kept on them

How will they survive?

I was going to post this ( but I needed a wee first)

Wonder where they are?

Something that never occurred to me to think about but now you mention it, I am not surprised.

Well I never knew that

How does it affect me LL? well it's more people to accommodate isn't it? Are you comfortable with a 15 year old roaming the country unaccounted for?

I thought the first person claimed asylum the day before the Olympics started?

Of course it was going to happen.

Hmmm. Highly dedicated and competitive people who have shown themselves to be the best from their own country (and better than most people in ours) and are now desperate to stay here because they think they can make a better life for themselves?

Reckon we should take 'em.

One of the Olympians did a runner when the team still had to compete. Not really in the spirit of things

Not really in the spirit of things? They should not escape a brutal dictatorship so you're not upset at an empty lane in a running race? Cop yourself on for fucks sake.

Their lives must be pretty rotten and desperate for them to do things like this. I don't really blame them. Our lives are cushy. Who are we to point the finger?