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18 hours ago, tirtha22 said:

Inappropriate dressing distracting teammates; 20-year-old Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso kicked out of Olympic Village

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This also feels like so much drama om nothing :lol: 

 

She competed, announced her retirement from swimming and is sent home for being visible. Oh no.

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What I read on the Paraguyan articles found via Spanish wikipedia the problem might have been that she used the olympic village as a sort of tourist accommodation after her competition was over and posted on social media her trips to Disneyland etc.

This is what the Paraguay team chief said: "We are a professional team who comes to compete and not to make tours/walk around"

https://www.abc.com.py/deportes/polideportivo/2024/08/02/camilo-perez-sobre-luana-alonso-somos-un-equipo-profesional-que-busca-competir-y-no-pasear/

 

I think there might have been another reason: as it is well known the population Latin American countries including Paraguay are not particularly wealthy with a lot of inequality.

Probably it is not a good press if people travel to the Olympics on the state's expense, do not reach an internationally excellent level of performance (if I found it correctly this swimmer finished among the last of the 31 member field of her event) and then acts as a tourist, documenting all that in social media.

Some people might ask the question back home: should we really spend on this?

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