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"Madam President, I welcome the Olympic truce movement and the Olympic Truce Foundation and believe that the European Union should be involved in its work. I support this resolution. The Olympics and other global sporting events should be a time when all enmities are put aside between sportsmen and women. All participants should be free to participate. The visit to Middlesbrough by the North Korean football team during the 1966 World Cup and their recent return was graphically portrayed in a documentary
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Yet I have a warning: this should not be used by the unsavoury regimes around the world as an excuse to evade EU sanctions – smart or otherwise. If Robert Mugabe is metamorphosed into the coach of the Zimbabwean bobsleigh team, he should not be allowed to travel to Turin. If Khin Nyunt is transferred to chief administrator of the Burmese windsurfing squad to visit my own constituency in Weymouth in 2012, he should not be given a visa. I would make an exception if either were to compete, as nothing undermines dictators around the world as effectively as the world’s laughter.
I also welcome the increasing role of the UN Taskforce for Sport for Development. Djibril Diallo, the head of the taskforce, will be in Brussels on 10 and 11 January. He will meet Commissioner Figeľ and the coordinators of the Committee on Culture and Education, and will address a meeting of the Sports Intergroup. I hope we can build on this and that Members will participate."@en1
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"Game of their lives"1
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