http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=6101

2012 Olympics in London to clash with Ramadan
The organisers are working with the Muslim Council of Great Britain to find ways around the problem.

Muslim groups from across the world are criticising the organisers of the 2012 Olympics in London after it was revealed that the games will take place over Ramadan. The most holy month in the Muslim calander, which will take place from the 21 July to 20 August in 2012, involves fasting during daylight hours and will affect an estimated 3,000 athletes.

The organisers are working with the Muslim Council of Great Britain to find ways around the problem.

Joanna Manning Cooper, spokesman work the games said: "We did know about it when we submitted our bid and we have always believed that we could find ways to accomodate it." Nevertheless, this will come as a huge embarrasment for the organisers who have tried to ensure the event involve all of Britain's ethnic communities.

A quarter of the athletes who took part in the 2004 Athens Olympics were from predominantly Muslim countries and the fast will put any athletes involved at a clear disadvantage.

The chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, Massoud Shadjared said: "This is going to disadvantage the athletes and alienate the Asian communities by saying the don't matter. It's not only going to affect the participants, it's going to affect all the people who want to watch the games."

The president of the National Olympic Committee of Turkey, Togay Bayalti, said: "This will be difficult for Muslim athletes. They don't have to observe Ramadan if they are doing sport and travelling but they will have to decide whether it is important to them."It would be nice for the friendship of the Games if they had chosen a different date."

The games will run from the 27 July to 12 August to coincide with the British Summer holidays. The summer holidays are a six week period running from mid July to early September. During this time, public transportation is generally less crowded and it will be easier to find the 70,000 volunteers needed to keep the games running. The International Olympics Committee has specified that the games must take place between July 15 to August 31. Giselle Davies, IOC spokesperson said, "We give a window to the five bid cities. The host city selects the dates within that window."

Like the arabs athlestes were veery competitive on the olympics

Last olympics:
Turkey 18 medals
Iran 6 medals
Marocco 3 medals

Well this probably affects alot lf the West African runners too.

i thought that...but most runners from Quenia or wherever dont seem to be fanatical muslims, and since its the running is the national pride, i cant see them obeying this "dont eat til the sunset" rule.

i dont want to be a prick, but thats still lame. And i bet most are 2nd and 3rd place.

Man...i just saw the medal count, Israel is incredibly lame, I know that the jewish people arent the most athletic in the world, but a rich country like Israel should do much better.

It probably doesn't help that most of their athletes also have to be Mossad agents. Thats what they did after the Munich Olympics, right?

Anyhow, this all goes back to my suggestion in a previous Ramadan thread - the three major faiths need to standardize their calandars so we don't have these holidays switching around every year.

Turkey = 22nd nation (3 golden medals)
Iran = 29th (2 golden medals)
Marocco = 36th (2 golden medals)

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http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympische ... llespiegel

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Winning a medal on the olympics is never lame.

It is when it's dressage, rhythmic gymnastics and synchronised swimming.

As for the topic, hey, this PJ tour to Aussie is clashing with uni exams. PJ's management should work with university admins to make sure this never happens again

that is the stupidest thing i've ever heard. The U.S. is pretty lame when it comes to medals considering how rich it is. They should win, like, 60% of the medals.... they should do much better.

The U.S. only got 25 medals at the winter olympics? Hahahahahaha. that is pretty lame.

there are only two sports americans care about in winter olympics, hockey and canada and russia losing in hockey

and if you want to get technical about it

OVERALL MEDALS GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL
1 United States of America 973 771 660 2404
2 USSR 473 376 355 1204
3 Italy 218 178 198 594
16 Canada 93 123 145 361

ownd

Haha, ya... the only sports you "care about". nice excuse. And I'm sure you all care about javelin, shotput and ping pong.

Let's get technical:

USA = 2404 medals / 300,000,000 people = 8.01333333×10-6 medals/person

Canada = 361 medals / 32,000,000 people = 1.128125 × 10-5 medals/person

Looks like you're lagging behind a bit, lol.
OWND

medal counts have nothing at all to do with population, but who has the best athletes

game.set.match

enjoy watching from not the podium

Winter Olympics:
USA = 25 medals / 211 athletes = 0.118 medals/athlete
Canada = 24 medals / 196 athletes = 0.122 medals / athlete

Would you like some maple syrup with that 'cause you're gonna have to eat it.

I don't even want to do the cost analysis for it. What would it be for you guys? Like $100,000,000 spent per medal? Lol.

no shit sherlock, its cause we have more people, and make a hell of alot more money than canada

face it, canada is the red headed step child to the US of A. noone ever says im going to start a new life in cana-duh, theres a reason the US is the leader of music (bands never consider themselves to have made it until they make it in the US, noone says, lets conquer canada) why the best movies are made here ( ya sure, films are filmed in canada, but thats cause youre all cheap as fuck) and lets not even go near sports

Wow, getting defensive are we? You were completely owned, so you changed the subject.... OWND!!! You don't have to start crying about it.

its not defensive to state a fact

face it, cana-duh is a nobody, noone cares about canada but canadians

but on the bright side, you do have geg and mf

I care about Canada. Nice people and beautiful landscape.

It's defensive to start changing the subject when you know you are wrong. so how was the maple syrup? did it help you stop crying?