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Laos: Selection of athletes for the Olympics

Written byMong Palatino
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Posted 14 August 2008 18 years ago

Lao athletes who participated in the Beijing Olympics were chosen because of their close ties to the Lao communist government, as alleged by a commenter in the blog post of Lao Cook.

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