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The chances for newly independent country Kosovo to compete in the coming summer Olympic Games in China are very slim. At least according to the International Olympic Committee.  For this to happen the United Nations needs to actually recognize Kosovo as a country first. 

” We need to wait and see what the United Nations decides. Participation in Peking is very unlikely because there is little time make the necessary steps, ” says IOC spokeswoman Emannuelle Moreau. 

At least five athletes from Kosovo are hoping for a ticket to the Games. They are all boxers.

There is a possibility though that before the IOC convenes the athletes might be allowed to compete as independent athletes under the Olympic flag. This has happened before when other athletes from former Yugoslavia and East Timor took this chance to perform at this very high level.

Do you think Kosovo should be allowed to send his athletes to the Games?

The London Underground, or ‘Tube’, as the Londoners like to call it, has refused to put up posters containing the image of a centuries old painting of Venus. The advertisement posters are intended to inform the travelers about the coming exhibition of German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. That exhibition will be held in the famous Royal Academy museum in London.

The Venus is a classic painting by Cranach, dating back to around 1530. The refusal by the Underground is ” totally mad “, according to president on the Commission on Culture of the British Parliament, John Wittingdale.

A spokesman of the tube defended the underground’s prudishness :” Millions of people use the underground every day and they have no say in what advertising they see while traveling. The posters would violate the principle that men, women and children should not portrayed in a sexual way.”

How politically correct !

                                               The original Venus de Milo