We must continue to grab the world attention to the plight of the Tibetan to disrupt the elite runners of the Flora London Marathon of the 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 kilometres) course.
We must continue to grab the world attention to the plight of the Tibetan to disrupt the elite runners of the Flora London Marathon of the 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 kilometres) course.
The Momentum and the Enthusiasm of the clause must continue whist the world attention is in our spotlight.
The Flora London Marathon Route Map
http://www.london-marathon.co.uk/site/?pageID=2&article=168
The Momentum and the Enthusiasm of the clause must continue whist the world attention is in our spotlight.
The Flora London Marathon Route Map
http://www.london-marathon.co.uk/site/?pageID=2&article=168 
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?????? what's the relevance
08.04.2008 11:14
what's the link or are you just proposing to grab the limelight?
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London Marathon is rooted in Olympic shame
08.04.2008 11:42
Carl Diem
Provocateur?
08.04.2008 11:52
disarming man
Sport as peaceful competition
08.04.2008 12:42
n
Dumb idea. Try SAMSUNG
08.04.2008 15:01
For example SAMSUNG:
"SAMSUNG's Olympics-related Sports Marketing Activities
SAMSUNG is well aware of how important the Olympics are as a marketing tool. The entire SAMSUNG Group focuses on maximizing the communication effect created during the world’s single largest sporting event. SAMSUNG’s involvement with the Olympic movement began as a local sponsor for the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games. SAMSUNG was the worldwide partner in the wireless telecommunications equipment category for the Nagano 1998 Olympic Winter Games, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games. This status as worldwide partner in the wireless telecommunications equipment category is set to continue through the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games."
SAMSUNG AFFILIATED COMPANIES:
U.K. : SAMSUNG U.K. Ltd.
SAMSUNG House 3 Riverband Way, Great West Road, Brentford Middlesex TW8 9RE LONDON U.K.
Tel : 44-20-8862-9311, 9312(reception), Fax No : 44-20-8569-7165
IKU
Running for Life, running for water
08.04.2008 18:25
Running the London Marathon should be no problem for six Maasai warriors who have come to Britain from their village of Elaui in northern Tanzania as part of a campaign to raise money to find a vital water source (www.maasaimarathon.org).
"Back at home we sometimes run for 5 or 6 days, day and night," Isaya, a young warrior clothed in a red robe and adorned with traditional beaded jewelry, told Reuters in an interview. "Twenty-six miles not far."
He and his fellow warriors, all between 20 and 25 years old, expect to reach the finish line of Sunday's race within four and a half hours.
They will run in traditional dress -- a red "shuka" blanket toga and car-tire sandals -- carrying spears and shields showing their running numbers, and will sing and dance along the 26.2 mile route through the British capital.
"And we will do the whole marathon with no water," Isaya adds. "We often travel for many days, eating only twice a day, and we have no water."
The Maasai warriors, whose role is to protect and help provide for their people, hope to raise enough money to find and access a fresh water source for their community -- something they say could cost up to 60,000 pounds ($120,000).
An estimated 500,000 to one million Maasai inhabit scattered and remote villages across northern Tanzania and southern Kenya, living a semi-nomadic existence.
But years of drought in the region around Eluai, where these six warriors live with their elders and children, is killing their cattle and threatening their way of life with disease and famine.
Two thirds of the children born in Eluai die before they reach the age of five.
"It is a large village which has a very bad lack of water. We have only one small dam and the water from it runs out very quickly," said Isaya.
"It is affecting our people. Our children are dying. We are infected with disease from water which is dark and dirty. We sometimes have years with no rain."
Paul Martin, an expedition leader with the Greenforce charity which has been working with the Maasai since 2005, said ground surveys of the area around Eluai had found an underground water source which could offer the Maasai a lifeline.
"It's an enormously difficult and expensive procedure, but it's so desperately needed that we have to make sure we get something out of there, even if we have to go down to depths of 100 meters
"The Maasai are a proud people ... If they achieve this, they will return to their village as heroes," he said.
And Isaya has no doubt he and his fellow runners will do it.
"The finish line for us is not at the end of the race, it is when we can turn on a tap in Eluai," he said. "I really believe that can happen."
Running for Life, running for Water
Lets not do this, and here's why:
I think..
08.04.2008 19:34
Dave
Elite runners?
08.04.2008 22:51
To protest at this event over Tibet is I think silly.
Ruby
for god's sake don't do this
09.04.2008 15:58
It has ZERO connection with China, its' sponsors have mainstream perception as being makers of a 'goody' product (rightly or wrongly).
And most important of all, it is a much loved, mass participation event which has neverd one any harm to anyone who wasn't willing to embrace that risk.
The image effect resulting from such a protest would be the same as that coming from being seen to torture fwuffy bunny-wunnies in public.
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