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cassanova
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Report geoff m • August 11, 2012 8:37 PM BST
Sailing

Usa took silver
Great Britain took bronze

Somalia took a middle aged couple from Weymoth
Report freeze_the_secret • August 11, 2012 8:38 PM BST
Ireland had an excellent games in the pool,no one drowned.
Report chelters16 • August 11, 2012 8:53 PM BST
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

neither funny or original.
Report cassanova • August 11, 2012 8:59 PM BST
chelters, he is not british.
Report OffshoreGallop • August 11, 2012 9:05 PM BST
well done somalia, great double in the log distance track races.
Report cassanova • August 11, 2012 9:14 PM BST
offshore, i see you are a well educated person.
Report GPT • August 11, 2012 9:17 PM BST
Sorry he is British got your facts wrong there casnovaWink
Report HansUlrichApfelStrudel • August 11, 2012 9:20 PM BST
Somalia belongs to England Cool
Report cassanova • August 11, 2012 9:28 PM BST
djibouti born and bred, fact.
Report flyingbolt • August 11, 2012 9:31 PM BST
GPT

He was born in Somalia to Somalian parents.

He might "officially" be British but he isn't really.

None of which bothers me.

Tremendous athlete,fantastic achievement.
Report stevo1 • August 11, 2012 9:33 PM BST
Like that great footballer Tony Cascarino
Report cassanova • August 11, 2012 9:36 PM BST
haha, flyingbolt, dont bother me niether, just wanted to educate.
Report spyker • August 11, 2012 10:46 PM BST
At least you got the country right this time you spanner (and no the 'joke' isn't funny the 2nd time either)!
Report thedodgepot • August 11, 2012 11:30 PM BST
Half the England cricket team are not English either.  Gone are the days where you couldnt choose your country.
Report spyker • August 12, 2012 12:10 AM BST
And lets not forget Bradley Wiggins is a Belgian with an Aussie dad. Great innit the modern age and the ability to travel - so much better than it was in days of yore.......
Report Sica Dan • August 12, 2012 12:38 AM BST
It was quite funny to hear Brendan Foster say Mo was up against the might of Africa.
Report LordBobbin • August 12, 2012 12:41 AM BST
Mo's father is actually English, and the women don't count in Somalia, so really that's that...
Report sageform • August 12, 2012 9:21 AM BST
There is a very big difference between an athlete who transfers allegiance after competing for another country and a kid who arrives here and spends his childhood at a British school. Mo is British and is proud to be so.
Report buddeliea • August 12, 2012 9:53 AM BST
he aint 100% british,and he certainly dont look like it!! or run like itLaugh
Report HansUlrichApfelStrudel • August 12, 2012 10:39 AM BST
Mo is English as the England Cricket team Cool
Report sageform • August 12, 2012 11:57 AM BST
The "who do you think you are" programme showed that very few people who feel that they are British can trace that back for more than 3 generations. Less than half of the population of Brazil have ancestors who were there in 1940. So what?
Report 1.01 Layer • August 12, 2012 12:16 PM BST
As i understand it, if we go back far enough we're all African anyway. hth.
Report GPT • August 12, 2012 12:18 PM BST
Educate Laugh he has a UK passport therefore he is British,now that's educating as you didn't know it cassnovaWink
Report rogerthebutler • August 12, 2012 12:26 PM BST
Some people just can't help themselves can they?

Unless it's a Gold medal, won by a male, displaying Corinthian values that makes Chariots of Fire look like the Hansie Cronjie Guide to Ethics, who can trace his Anglo-Saxon lineage back 10 centuries then it doesn't count.

Oh, and if they do get through the Venn Diagram, then it's got to be in a sport that doesn't involve sitting down, because - ho, ho, ho and if I've heard it once i've heard it a thousand times - that's all us Brits are good at.
Report HansUlrichApfelStrudel • August 12, 2012 12:42 PM BST
Don't forget shooting guns
Report alun2005 • August 12, 2012 1:14 PM BST
mmmmmm  Venn Diagrams, surely the most overtly sexy form of scientific aggregation, especially that right horny section in the epicentre.
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