Reply With QuoteNext time, maybe they should compete as a single country instead of as 25 separate countries.
News Flash: The EU won the Olympics???
Dig this crap....accoring to the EU head, or whatever they have, the EU is one entity and the EU won 82 gold metals.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004401679,00.html
• The Sun Says
By TREVOR KAVANAGH
Political Editor
EURO chief Romano Prodi last night hailed Britain’s haul of Olympic gold as a triumph — for the European Union.
And he warned our athletes will have to fly the EU flag as well as the Union Jack at Beijing in 2008.
That would mean 800m and 1500m champion Kelly Holmes and boxing sensation Amir Khan would be battling for Brussels as much as Britain.
Medal table
(As Brussels sees it)
Europe:*******82 golds
USA:********************* 35
China:******************* 32
Russia:****************** 27
Australia:***************17
Great Britain:**********0*
*See contribution to EU
Mr Prodi turned the Athens games into a political football, boasting that our bag of 30 medals helped the EU trounce America and China.
He said: “The Games were a huge success thanks to their unique spirit and smooth organisation but also because EU athletes did so well.
“In 2008 I hope to see the teams in Beijing carry the flag of the European Union alongside their own national flag as a symbol of our unity.
“The European Union’s sportsmen and women performed outstandingly at Athens, winning 82 gold medals and more than 280 medals in total.”
Mr Prodi*a failed Italian politician, is about to step down after a dismal term as EU president.
Mr Prodi ... infuriated critics
He has infuriated critics by spelling out his vision for an EU superstate, dubbed the “Holy Romano Empire”.
Mr Prodi’s grandiose plan for a Euro Olympic squad was backed by other Eurocrats.
Commission spokesman Reijo Kemppinen claimed: “The EU swept the floor at the Olympic Games.”
Golden girl ... Kelly Holmes
German Ingo Friedrich, vice-president of the Euro Parliament, insisted medals must be listed under the EU to “foster a European identity”.
But ex-sports minister Kate Hoey blasted the Prodi plan.
“Athletes feel very strong emotions when they represent their own country at the Olympics.
Star ... Amir Khan
“We saw Amir Khan and other medal-winners kissing or crying into the Union Jack and Kelly Holmes was proud to be picked to parade the flag in the closing ceremony.
“Can anyone imagine them feeling that way about the EU banner?”
Next time, maybe they should compete as a single country instead of as 25 separate countries.
That is pretty redicoulous.
keep dreaming guys.German Ingo Friedrich, vice-president of the Euro Parliament, insisted medals must be listed under the EU to “foster a European identity”.
ugh god, why did any country join this retarded organization...but imho, the slavs should have made up their own organ, just made up of the former eastern bloc countries; then, invade the rest of europe kick the eu in the ass and go back home for some barszcz and pierogi.
anyway euro politico's have always been dumb, so its nothing new that they come up with this stupid garbage.
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anyway i dont get it, is this article aiming at all the euro nations; that everyone will have to fly the union jack and the eu flag?
Up next, Canada won several dozen gold medals! ... with the US.
If they get all of Europe...can we get all of North and South America? It would balance it out...
...But then, what about the Commonwealth?
Hey, give the man a break. Prodi is Italian. An Italian politician. An Italian Europolitician. A high-ranking Italian Europolitician. He's SUPPOSED to be out of touch.
What a windbag. There's absolutely no feeling of unity between European nations in sports, quite the contrary.
Yes. Everyone will have to fly the Union Jack and the EU flag from now on.Pole, Slovak, Finn, Irishman, Greek.Originally Posted by b.scheller
No way, who would ever wanted to be assoicated with british sport these days :P
I think its not cheating saying that UE won... At least this shows that UE and more generaly europe is still power you must be aware off....
The source of the news posted by Nizark is The Sun, this newspaper it´s a crap, the type of press called in some places "yellow journalism", this is: ultra-nationalist, exagerated, half-true, etc.
Don't you believe in 80 golds by countrys of UE?
Yes, I believe. But I don´t believe Romani Prodi pretending british athletes waving EU flags in the place of british flags, things aren´t like this. Even The Sun´s journalists know that, but the question it´s selling more and more newspapers telling that foreigners want to steal "our medals". British athletes don´t want compete under EU flags more that european people would like to assume british medals as their own ones.
of course they will not... But I don't think that part of article is most important... You must riddle news from comments
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