Table Tennis 2019 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 13,241]

Positive impulse before the World Tour Finals for Ľubo and Barbora winning the ITTF American Tour Open in Markham

 

http://results.ittf.bornan.net/ittf-web-results/html/TTE5030/results.html#/knock-outs

[Olympian1010 7,470]

Not impressed with , they should be sanctioned for this quite frankly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/world/europe/nigerian-migrants-croatia-table-tennis.html

 

For those too lazy to read (or not wanting to make an account: Essentially two  university students were in  to play in a table tennis tournament. They suffered early eliminations, and decided to explore the country since their visas were still valid. They went to Zagreb (though personally I would have chosen Split, Dubrovnik, or “King’s Landing”). During their last night in Zagreb they were arrested (violently) by police, and not given the chance to fetch their belongings/passports even after questioning. The next morning they were driven to the Bosnian border, and just left there. Croatian police are accused of forcing them across the broader at gunpoint (a fairly typical practice that’s come under fire from the UN apparently). Now the Bosnians are holding them in detention since they don’t have visas to be in Bosnia. Records do show that the Nigerians had valid visas to be in Croatia, and did in fact participate and get eliminated from the tournament early. Now  and  are fighting over who’s responsible for them, while the Nigerians are held in a cell. Oh, and by the way, the Croatian police stole their belongings, so the athletes can’t even call home to get help from the Nigerian government.

 

Not impressed to say the least. Extreme case of xenophobia on display from Croatia here. You can’t be deporting athletes who are on valid visas and participating in international tournaments. Shame on .