LONDON (AP) Cameroon Olympics officers say eight opponents with eventually left the players village could possibly be seeking different properties along with wearing prospects outside the house their own African nation.
Press attach Emmanuel Tataw informed The Associated Press your eleven Olympians include in force U.K. visas that would allow for these people to stay in belgium intended for 6 months time months. He noted this additional Cameroon sports athletes possess kept Olympic squads for the duration of prior overseas activities events placed around Melbourne and Athens.
"Most belonging to the occasion they don't occur back," he said, adding construct y generally seek superior coaching features abroad.
Cameroon sent "about 33" players on the London games, and also greater than half associated with them, which ended up on the kind soccer team, experienced eventually left London right after they were eliminated. The missing runners contain five boxers, a swimmer and a football player, each of whom concluded their events before departing, he said.
Cameroon, a mainly French-speaking state associated with 20 million in rest of the world fundamental Africa, is one of the poorest international locations on earth, along with a strong predicted 2011 fiscal productivity of just $1,230 per person, in line with that International Monetary Fund.
Tataw said that runners still left the particular Olympic village in Stratford, distance London, in the centre associated with the night "without this agreement connected with Cameroon authorities."
"They are usually adults," this individual said.
London Olympic officers explained Wednesday that will Cameroon authorities have been seeking assistance in locating the athletes, nonetheless stressed that many people had certainly not breached the actual terms of these visas and were not really violating virtually any immigration laws.
"The staff includes naturally raised a concern as well as criminal arrest tend to be obviously informed," International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said. "But during that step I don't even think it really is necessarily with regard to the actual IOC to be concerned related to whether or not they are going to outstay their particular welcome."
He mentioned this seven tend to be 50-meter freestyle swimmer Paul Edingue Ekane, 21; can easily goalie Drusille Ngako Tchimi, 25; and personal trainer boxers: Thomas Essomba, 24; Christian Donfack Adjoufack, 28; Hyacinthe Mewoli Abdon, 26; Blaise Yepmou Mendouo, 27; in addition to Serge Ambomo, 26.
Britain's Office pertaining to National Statistics affirms fewer than 20,000 Cameroonians are now living in that UK, with most asylum-seekers opting instead regarding France.
The U.K. Border Agency pronounces most asylum applicants from Cameroon usually are refused in addition to deported.
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Associated Press consultants Rob Harris, Sylvia Hui and Raissa Ioussouf fork out for you to this report.
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