At least, in North Korea, you can leave your house.
From the New York Daily News:
An Olympic star was sent home for spending the night with his wife.
St. Kitts and Nevis axed sprinter Kim Collins, 36, from the 100 meter
on Saturday for leaving the athletes' village. Lane four remained empty
during the race. Collins, a “national hero” who was supposed to occupy
that space, turned to social media to vent his outrage.
“This can't be right,” he tweeted. “Olympic number 5 and no Kim Collins.”
He was set to run the 100 meters in his fifth Olympics. He even carried
the St. Kitts and Nevis flag at the opening ceremony this year. But
when he left the athletes' village to visit his wife at a hotel, his
team looked past his enthusiasm to their rulebook.
His team’s committee forbade him from running the 100 meters. Collins
won the world title for that event in 2003. Also entered in he 200 meter
and 4x100 meter relay, Collins was sent home, according to The
Associated Press.
"Mr. Collins departure is down to his repeated absences from training
sessions and also for refusing to respond to repeated phone calls and
emails by team manager and coaches," his team’s committee said in a
statement.
Collins feels that he should be able to stay with his wife with or
without their permission. “They're asking me to abandon my wife for the
team. It's not going to happen,” Collins told the BBC.
So, far, people have been kicked for tweeting supposedly racist comments, for cheating and now spending a night with his wife. Then you have the horrible job that NBC is doing in covering the Olympics and this is going down as one of the worst Olympics in a long time.
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