German director expelled from Tokyo Olympics after racist comment against Algerian and Eritrean players
Olympics Tokyo German Olympic officials asked the local cycling federation's sporting director on Thursday to leave the Tokyo Games and return home, after video footage showed him making a racist comment during the men's time trial on Wednesday. "Expedition officials at the Tokyo Olympics have decided to terminate Patrick Muster's assignment with the German cycling team and he will return to the country," the mission said in a statement. Muster made the comments during a time trial to cheer one of the German runners. "You have to go with them, you have to go to the camel drivers," shouted enthusiastically at the German racer Nicias Arnett, while chasing Algerian Azzedine Laakab and Eritrean Emmanuel Gebergabeer. Moster later apologized for the comments, saying, "I'm really sorry. The least I can do is apologize. This shouldn't have happened." The president of the local Olympic Committee, Alphonse Hormann, condemned this behavior and ...