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  • Olympian Voula Papachristou kicked off Greek team after racist tweet

    08/15/2012 2:40:03 PM PDT · by mlizzy · 16 replies
    ABC News ^ | 7-26-12
    ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Triple jumper Voula Papachristou was kicked off Greece's Olympic team Wednesday for her comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right political party. ----SNIP---- Papachristou's Twitter account ((at)papaxristoutj) contained several retweets and links to sites and YouTube videos promoting the views of Golden Dawn, a formerly marginal extreme right party that entered the Greek Parliament in two recent elections - in May and June - by polling almost 7 percent of the vote... But it was her attempt at a joke Sunday that got the most attention. Commenting on the widely reported...