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Fiji out of 2010 Commonwealth Games?

Friday 16 October 2009 (UR7s)

Fiji’s Rugby Sevens stars might not be challenging for medals at next year’s Commonwealth Games, following the island’s suspension from the multi-sport competition.

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) on Monday decided to ban Fiji from the Delhi 2010 Games after Fiji's membership was suspended by the Commonwealth last month.

CGF president Mike Fennell said after the General Assembly that the executive board recommended for the Commonwealth to remove sport as a part of sanctions so that Fiji could take part in the Games.

"Fiji's Commonwealth status was fully suspended on September 1 by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group and, therefore, it does not meet our own constitutional requirements for membership," he said.

"However, the General Assembly of the CGF has endorsed my proposal to lead a delegation to the Commonwealth Secretary-General requesting him to take forward to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting a recommendation from us that sport be removed as part of the sanction imposed upon a nation suspended from the Commonwealth," he added.
Fennell said if the proposal was accepted, Fiji could participate in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Fiji has been suspended "following its failure to meet the deadline to come out with a time schedule to hold credible elections in the country no later than October 2010".
 

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john beart Sat 17 Oct 2009 22:28

I knew this would happen due to the sanctions placed on the fijian government. But sport is not politics and please let the people of Fiji play in the commonwealth games. The nation has not supported the lack of democracy and it has been imposed on them by the dictatorship interim government. The Fijian people need something good to boost morale in a country with many problems at the minute , and a gold at the commonwealth games would give the whole country something to focus on. And anyway , whoever wins gold in their absence may surely feel it to be a hollow victory without one of the greatest 7s nations in history not there?.

I knew this would happen due to the sanctions placed on the fijian government. But sport is not politics and please let the people of Fiji play in the commonwealth games. The nation has not supported the lack of democracy and it has been imposed on them by the dictatorship interim government. The Fijian people need something good to boost morale in a country with many problems at the minute , and a gold at the commonwealth games would give the whole country something to focus on. And anyway , whoever wins gold in their absence may surely feel it to be a hollow victory without one of the greatest 7s nations in history not there?.
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