The 2012 Games are scheduled for July 27 to Aug. 12, while Ramadan, which follows a lunar cycle that moves it earlier each year by about 11 days, will run from July 21 to Aug. 20.
The International Olympic Committee requires the Games begin between July 15 and Aug. 31 but leaves the final decision to the host city.
Answer: they would have been fecked anyway unless they moved it past the holiday season which they didn't want to do.
Hassiba Boulmerka of Algeria won the gold medal in the 1,500 meters race at the Barcelona Games of 1996, competing in a standard runner's outfit. Her victory caused a Muslim preacher in Algeria to denounce those who "dare display their nudity before the whole world." Death threats followed. Boulmerka became an outcast, afraid to return to her own country.
As I see it, the Olympics is a stage to unite common values of human achievement, teamwork and camaraderie. The very fact that yet again a minority of malicious minded individuals are using this as a stage to further shout their antiquated idealism should be cart blanche for athletes to stick a proverbial two fingers up at religion and its divisive practices and revel in the joy of sport.
The International Olympic Committee requires the Games begin between July 15 and Aug. 31 but leaves the final decision to the host city.
Answer: they would have been fecked anyway unless they moved it past the holiday season which they didn't want to do.
Hassiba Boulmerka of Algeria won the gold medal in the 1,500 meters race at the Barcelona Games of 1996, competing in a standard runner's outfit. Her victory caused a Muslim preacher in Algeria to denounce those who "dare display their nudity before the whole world." Death threats followed. Boulmerka became an outcast, afraid to return to her own country.
As I see it, the Olympics is a stage to unite common values of human achievement, teamwork and camaraderie. The very fact that yet again a minority of malicious minded individuals are using this as a stage to further shout their antiquated idealism should be cart blanche for athletes to stick a proverbial two fingers up at religion and its divisive practices and revel in the joy of sport.
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