Viewpoint wrote:Kikapu wrote:Viewpoint wrote:supporttheunderdog wrote:My own understanding is that any ROC citizen who qualifes is welcome to compete in any international competion but it must be as an ROC Citizen through the auspices of the recognised Cypriot sporting bodies which are based in the ROC, which for the Turkish Speaking Cypriots living in the illegally occupied zone means recognition of the ROC and is prohibited by the occupiers.
Wrong. They are not prohibited by anyone in the north, the problem is they do not want to be forced to compete under a flag which does not represent them ass to the fact that even if there was a TC who could run the 100m faster than Usain he would still not be chosen the GCs would find a way to make sure he does not go, they would rather have Yorgo.
Give us some examples rather than wasting your breath on propaganda where a TC athlete would not be accepted by the RoC if they were actually good at it. The fact that these TCs accepted RoC passports, they are willingly accepting to be represented by the RoC as well as to be under the RoC flag. If they choose not to do so, then it's their tough luck. I though politics should be taken out of Olympics, which was what the article was trying to say, so take the politics out of it, otherwise they can compete as a Turk for Turkey, but not as a TC. It's very simple to understand really, unless you are complete moron. So which is it?
Not one TC in the sports or entertainment field has been chosen to represent the "RoC" although they have ventured into the south, they have been pushed to one side and left on the bench this is testiment enough that TCs will never suceed amongest GCs, because the GCs will never allow it. (I can introduce you to a young TC footballer who could play better than most GC footballers only when he tried to flourish in the south he was constantly ridiculed and left on the substitutes bench week after week only to be disheartened and give up playing in the south amongst foreigners.)
If he was really good, the RoC would be paying gold to the team that had him to be using him to show the world how justly the RoC treats the TCs as long as they go legit. And am sure his team would not bench him either. One possibility is that maybe this young man, although good, could not, for psychological reasons, show what he had when put in and his coach didn't treat his case properly. There are tens of cases like that in Greece, where young talented Greek players are left on the bench for years so that the "expensive" foreigners play instead. Such players, like Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Sotiris Ninis etc, usually end up in european teams and don't want to come back to Greece. Not to mention the case of the Greek goal keeper of APOEL who was not invited even to the Greek National team for the Euro 2012 although he performed during the previous season tremendously and better than any of the other three Greek keepers who were finally called.
