IOC Says Iraq Won't Be Allowed at Olympics

IOC Says Iraq Won't Be Allowed at Olympics

国际奥委会将不允许伊拉克参加奥运会

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Thursday, July 24, 2008; 1:18 PM
2008年7月24日，下午1：18

New Roman">BAGHDAD, July 24 -- Iraqi athletes have been banned from competing in the Olympics in Beijing because of a squabble between the Iraqi government and the International Olympic Committee, making Iraq one of the few countries to be barred from the games.

巴格达，7月24日消息—伊拉克运动员将被禁止参加北京奥运会的角逐。因为伊拉克政府和国际奥委会的争执，使得伊拉克成为少数几个被禁止参加奥运会的国家之一。

Iraqi officials learned on Tuesday that its seven-member Olympic team would not be allowed to participate this summer because of the dispute, according to Haider Ali Lazim, a former member of the Iraqi National Olympic Committee who represented Iraq in judo in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

伊拉克官员们星期二得知，由于他们和国际奥委会的争端，伊拉克组成的7人奥运代表队将不能参加本届夏季奥运会。伊拉克前国家奥委会委员，2004雅典奥运会伊拉克柔道队代表，海得尔。阿里。拉滋姆通告了这个消息。

The dispute began when the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki disbanded the Iraqi Olympic Committee in May, accusing its members of corruption and winning their seats through rigged elections. Lazim, a member of the disbanded group, said the committee denies the allegations.

争端的起因是今年5月份，政府总理Nouri al-Maliki解散了伊拉克奥委会，指责奥委会成员涉嫌腐败，为了赢取席位而在选举中舞弊。作为被解散的班子成员，lazim说，委员会否认那些指控。

The government appointed an interim committee headed by the minister of sports, but the International Olympics Committee refused to recognize it, citing Olympic Charter rules that bar government interference in national Olympic committee activities. On June 4, it suspended Iraq's Olympic committee, giving the Iraqi government a deadline of Wednesday -- the deadline for the submission of rosters in all sports but track and field.

伊拉克政府指定了一个由体育部长负责的临时委员会，但是国际奥委会援引奥林匹克宪章---关于禁止政府干预国家奥委会活动的条款，拒绝承认过渡委员会。6月4日，国际奥委会吊销了伊拉克奥委会的参赛资格，并给予伊拉克政府星期三的最后期限---这也是上报除了田径以为所有运动项目花名册的最后期限。

"I feel sad for sports in Iraq and I feel angry at our government because it caused all this," Lazim said. "But there is no doubt that the decision of the International Olympics Committee is correct and legal."

Lazim说，“我为伊拉克的体育感到悲哀，我对我们的政府表示愤怒，因为是他们造成了这一切，但是毫无疑问，国际奥委会的决定是正确的，合法的。”

The Iraqi athletes planned to represent Iraq in judo, archery, wrestling, rowing and track and field.

伊拉克运动员原来计划参加柔道，射箭，摔跤，划艇以及田径等项目的比赛。

"The IOC very sadly has now to acknowledge that it is likely there will be no Iraqi presence at the Beijing Olympic Games, despite our best efforts," IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said in an e-mail. "We are very disappointed that the athletes have been so ill-served by their own government's actions."

国际奥委会发言人Giselle Davies在一封电子邮件中说，“国际奥委会在得知伊拉克将不参加北京奥运会也非常难过，尽管我们尽了最大努力，我们对运动员必须为他们政府的过失行为付出代价而感到非常遗憾。”

Davies said the Iraqi government had been invited to come to the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, to discuss possible remedies, but declined. Olympic Charter Rule 28(9) forbids government action that "causes the activity of the NOC . . . to be hampered."

 Davies还说，伊拉克政府被邀请到瑞士洛桑的国际奥委会总部讨论可能的修正方案，但是（伊拉克政府）拒绝了。奥林匹克宪章第28条，29条中规定，禁止因政府行为“导致国家奥委会的活动受到阻碍。”

Davies said Iraq could possibly still field a team if the government promised in writing to cease interfering with the national committee. The deadline for track and field athlete submissions is July 31, and every participating national Olympic committee is entitled to send one male and one female athlete, she said.

Davies说，如果伊拉克政府以书面方式保证停止干预本国奥委会的活动，伊拉克仍有可能组织一个田径队伍参加比赛，田径比赛运动员报名截止是Day="31" IsLunarDate="False" IsROCDate="False">7月31日，每一个参加国的奥委会都有权派出男女各一名运动员参加。

"It's on the very principle of not wanting sports and politics to mix that the [Iraqi committee]was suspended," Davies said by phone. "The IOC worked as best as it could to [reach] a resolution."

Davies在电话中说，（伊拉克奥委会）的资格被吊销，是一个基本原则问题，我们不希望把体育和政治混为一谈，国际奥委会为了解决这个问题尽了最大的努力。

U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Darryl Seibel said the USOC was seeking more information on the matter but called it "a decision for the IOC."

美国奥委会发言人Darryl Seibel说，美国奥委会虽然还在搜集相关的更多信息，但已经称此事为“国际奥委会的决定。”

Iraq was also barred from participating in the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney because it did not have a national Olympic committee. South Africa was barred from the Olympic Games between 1964 and 1992 for its apartheid policies.

2000年，因为当时的伊拉克没有国家奥委会，所以被禁止参加在悉尼举办的夏季奥运会。南非则因为实行种族隔离政策而被禁止参加从1964年到1992年期间举办的所有奥运会。

Shipley reported from Miami.
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