Voula Papachristou, Greek Olympic Athlete, Expelled for Mocking African Immigrants on Twitter

At Telegraph UK, "London 2012 Olympics: Greece athlete Voula Papachristou expelled for racist comment on Twitter":

Team GB athletes have now been reminded to keep their tweets “in a tasteful manner” or risk breaching their athlete team agreements, which allow for expulsion from the Games.

Papachristou a supporter of the far-right political party Golden Dawn, posted the offensive tweet two days ago, which she now claims was a joke.

The tweet said: “With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat home made food!!!”

But the Hellenic Olympic Committee came under pressure from within Greece to take action against 23-year-old Papachristou, who had also publicly supported the Golden Dawn politician Ilias Kasidiaris, when he criticised Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s immigration position.

She had previously retweeted promotional videos from the political party, which gained seven per cent of the vote in the recent Greek elections.

Also at London's Daily Mail, "Greek triple jumper booted off Olympic team in disgrace after she mocked African immigrants on Twitter."

Boy, mock African immigrants and the IOC comes down on you like a ton of bricks. But request one minute of silence for the Israeli athletes murdered in 1972? Nope, that's too political. See: "Olympic Committee Won't Hold Moment of Silence for Slain 1972 Israeli Athletes."