Second athlete sent home from Tokyo for refusing to face Israeli opponent

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Second athlete sent home from Tokyo2020 for refusing to face Israeli opponent

’s Mohamed Abdalrasool weighed in for the 73-kilogram division bout on Monday but then failed to show up to face Butbul in their round 32 match.

 

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Good... its sport time not war time..

The very ppl who buys Starbucks, McD, iPhones...uses facebook ....🤣🤣🤣 what an idiot !!

Scared of losing. If they really wanted to make a statement, they would compete and defeat the Israeli opponent.

Apartheid is not part of the Olympic spirit.

So sad 😞 … they didn’t get the Olympic spirit!

Do you blame them?

📹 شـاهـد : نسب العجز الكارثية عند مقارنة الكميات المفرج عنها خلال الفترة (يناير-يونيو) من كلا العامين 2021-2020م بإجمالي الاحتياج الفعلي من مادتي البنزين والديزل خلال نفس الفترة. YemenCantWait YPC امريكا_تحاصر_الشعب_اليمني

wenn man bedenkt, dass die olympischen spiele dem frieden dienen sollten...

Not in the spirit of the games, so send them all home (maybe ban them from the next one) & get on with it.

OFGS. Whoever's it is.

Well done Brother. Man of Honor!!!! The world must take action against Israeli human rights violations and crimes against Palestinians.

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