Olympic officials say an Egyptian judo athlete has been reprimanded and sent home after refusing to shake his Israeli opponent's hand.

The International Olympic Committee says Islam El Shehaby received a "severe reprimand" for his behavior following his first-round heavyweight bout loss to Or Sasson last Friday.

When Sasson extended his hand, El Shehaby backed away, shaking his head. The referee called the 34-year-old El Shehaby back to the mat and obliged to him to bow; he gave a quick nod and was loudly booed as he exited.

The IOC says the Egyptian's conduct "was contrary to the rules of fair play and against the spirit of friendship embodied in the Olympic values."

The IOC says the Egyptian Olympic Committee also "strongly condemned" El Shehaby's actions "and has sent him home."

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/15/egyptian-judo-athlete-sent-home-from-rio-after-refusing-to-shake-israeli-opponents-hand.html

I guess when cantona kicked that football fan on his face he was showing true colours of the french, or when other athletes had beef with each other

guess he's still remembering the Six-Day-War-Fiasko!

apples and oranges... this isn't even close...

both use the choice of an individual to paint a whole group of people,,,,

Hey MS...tried to send u message but I'm not in your age bracket
So left you note about "links" on your funny stories post..just a FYI

thank you

Israel beat that azz again....

However unfortunate, like behavior occurs everywhere. It doesn't mean it should be condoned ever. Yes, it should all be reprimanded. The Olympics should be a place that brings countries together to show how everyone should act. Peace may never be achieved in a world full of hateful.people. It should be something we all strive for acceptance. All peoples governments should try to embody peaceful relations for the whole worlds sake. Okay taking off rose colored glasses now.

Let me borrow them...would be nice to have faith in the world...even just for a minute

I always have faith and hope.

Hmm...sounds more like a case of sore-loser syndrome more than anything else. But I do agree with the IOC's stance here. You cannot bring political sentiment to what should be an event where all participants are expected to be friendly and demonstrate some form of civility and humaneness toward opponents, even when there is normally hostile sentiments between the two outside of the Olympics. It's one thing to compete, it's quite something else altogether to be mean-spirited and display poor sportsmanship by dredging up political strife and being unfriendly to the other participants, whatever their ethnicity, nationality, religious persuasion or political persuasion. The Olympic Games are not the place for that!

Muslims don't want peace.......

Yes , Im sure they enjoy being used as human shields by extremists

and having their loved ones recruited to blow themselves up

oh, and being KILLED THEMSELVES by muslim 'extremists'

they dont want peace,,,,

Alalalalalalalala~~~~~~~~ "we muhalins are not tha swartz!!!!nevar!!!~~~~"