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Flight #5342: I Will Remember You
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Here's a new/separate thread for higher visibility... @Ka3sha originally posted these 2 links in the "Who may be out of 2018 Olympics due to citizenship?" thread.
"With the help of this petition, fans of figure skating from around the world want to express their support to the athletes Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sørensen, who are trying to participate at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang."
Link to the petition started by Svetlana L. in Moscow: https://www.change.org/p/the-danish...lympic-games-for-the-ice-dancers-from-denmark
Nikolaj Sorensen posted on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BUE99NRj1hi/?taken-by=nik_sorensen
("THE VIDEO is Laurence saying she wants to go the the olympics for Denmark, in an interview #learning #danish #impossible #possible")
Five years ago in may 2012 we started our journey together. We decided on a whim to skate together and really hadn't reflected on where this might lead us one day.
Well first thing first. Little over a year into our partnership our skating partnership also became an off the ice in love kind of partnership and we have ever since may 2013 shared all the ups and downs that we have had both on and of the ice.
We are so "lucky" and thankful to be able to do what we love everyday. With the person that we love. And through this passionate hobby that we have turned into our full time career, WE this year accomplished something that we had never wrapped our heads around, QUALIFYING FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES 2018 for the country we proudly represent DENMARK. We did so as the 7th best nation in the world!
Now Laurence is not a Danish citizen, and unfortunately Denmark might be one of the countries in the world with the strictest immigration policy.
In the Olympic charter written in :
CHAPTER 5 -> SECTION 2 -> RULE 41 BYE-LAW 4
4. Furthermore, in all cases in which a competitor would be eligible to participate in the Olympic Games, either by representing another country than his or by having the choice as to the country which such competitor intends to represent, the IOC Executive Board may take all decisions of a general or individual nature with regard to issues resulting from nationality, citizenship, domicile or residence of any competitor, including the duration of any waiting period
And this gives us hope. We now appeal to the DANISH OC, and hope that they will work very hard to make this exception a reality...
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NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE AND SPORTS CONFEDERATION OF DENMARK: https://www.olympic.org/denmark
Danmarks Idrætsforbund (DIF): http://www.dif.dk
"With the help of this petition, fans of figure skating from around the world want to express their support to the athletes Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sørensen, who are trying to participate at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang."
Link to the petition started by Svetlana L. in Moscow: https://www.change.org/p/the-danish...lympic-games-for-the-ice-dancers-from-denmark
Nikolaj Sorensen posted on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BUE99NRj1hi/?taken-by=nik_sorensen
("THE VIDEO is Laurence saying she wants to go the the olympics for Denmark, in an interview #learning #danish #impossible #possible")
Five years ago in may 2012 we started our journey together. We decided on a whim to skate together and really hadn't reflected on where this might lead us one day.
Well first thing first. Little over a year into our partnership our skating partnership also became an off the ice in love kind of partnership and we have ever since may 2013 shared all the ups and downs that we have had both on and of the ice.
We are so "lucky" and thankful to be able to do what we love everyday. With the person that we love. And through this passionate hobby that we have turned into our full time career, WE this year accomplished something that we had never wrapped our heads around, QUALIFYING FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES 2018 for the country we proudly represent DENMARK. We did so as the 7th best nation in the world!
Now Laurence is not a Danish citizen, and unfortunately Denmark might be one of the countries in the world with the strictest immigration policy.
In the Olympic charter written in :
CHAPTER 5 -> SECTION 2 -> RULE 41 BYE-LAW 4
4. Furthermore, in all cases in which a competitor would be eligible to participate in the Olympic Games, either by representing another country than his or by having the choice as to the country which such competitor intends to represent, the IOC Executive Board may take all decisions of a general or individual nature with regard to issues resulting from nationality, citizenship, domicile or residence of any competitor, including the duration of any waiting period
And this gives us hope. We now appeal to the DANISH OC, and hope that they will work very hard to make this exception a reality...
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NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE AND SPORTS CONFEDERATION OF DENMARK: https://www.olympic.org/denmark
Danmarks Idrætsforbund (DIF): http://www.dif.dk
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