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To: Ish who wrote (13378)	2/7/2002 10:18:24 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45639

Okay this is for all you Glory Days left overs...please explain this. Friday February 8, 2:24 AM IOC rejects accusations it banned Afghan flag The International Olympic Committee (IOC) denied that Afghanistan had asked for its new flag to be symbolically flown at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. The online scandal-driven news service, the Drudge Report, claimed the IOC had rejected a proposal by Afghan diplomats for a female athlete from the war-torn country to carry its black, red and green flag during Friday's opening ceremony in Salt Lake City. An IOC spokesman denied they had ever received such a request. However, he said that had they been asked, the Olympic governing body would have vetoed the proposal. "During the opening cermony, the march of the athletes under their national colours represents those who are actually competing in the event. "There are no Afghan participants in Salt Lake City and there have never been any at the Games before," he said. Another IOC official said: "For a fictitious Afghan delegation to parade, even symbolically, would be a political act incompatible with the Olympic charter." The Afghanistan National Olympic Committee was suspended by the IOC in 1999 because it was judged not to be in control of sport in the country, which at the time was ruled by the fundamentalist Islamic Taliban militia. IOC officials have confirmed they are in preliminary talks with the Afghanistan's new interim government to prepare the ground for the country to return to the Olympic fold. Many Afghan athletes left the country when it became internationally isolated during the Taliban's five-year reign. The last Afghan national team to participate in the Olympics was the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, according to sports officials in Kabul. A delegation also appeared in the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan.