StAUG said:
Being Greek myself, I know some more info that was not mentioned in foreign news sources. Basically the tweet was not the only reason, it was just the "nail in the coffin" for her. She has been known for her support of a Greek neonazi political party that has been getting a lot of flak since they appeared massively empowered during the latest elections and caused a great deal of controversy in my country. Basically that wasn't just a silly tweet by a silly girl, it was the last (and most innocent) in a series of nazi-sympathizing tweets, all of which have been deleted by her promptly after the shit hit the fan. So yeah, that's not very good. You can't have a person like that representing your country in the Olympics. Or well, maybe some can, but for my country it's not acceptable, the country that gave birth to the Olympics, and the country where, 2 and a half millenia ago, the philosopher Ploutarxos wrote the following words, in my own, probably terrible, translation:
"Our country does not exist by nature, in the same way that a house, or a farm, or an iron workshop, or a doctor's practice does not exist by nature. On the contrary, all those things are claimed by the person who happens to be living in them or using them. Because, as Plato used to say, Man is not like an earthen plant, he is a creature of the sky, his head is in such a position that urges his body to stare at the heavens. Hercules was correct to claim that every city is his home, and Socrates was even more correct when he said that "I am neither Athenian nor Greek, I am only a citizen of this world". Watch the limitless sky above your heads, holding the Earth in his soft embrace! THESE are the borders of our home country, and here noone is an outcast, or a foreigner, or an alien. In this world, the fire, the water, and the wind are all the same; the masters, the commanders, the dynasts, are all the same. The Sun, and the Moon, they are the same. The laws are the same, for everyone, and they derive from the same calling and the same principles: Justice. It is in our nature, as human beings, to uphold this Justice, towards all people, as if they are ALL our fellow citizens."
I know Greece has been getting some "bad press" lately, not all of which is unjustified. But still, even though some of us may have strayed from their path, we should not be forgetting who we really are, and we can't have a fucking neonazi sympathizer representing us in the Olympics. At least in my opinion.