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LEN suspendovala Čavića!

Petak, 21. mart 2008. 10:46

Šampionat Evrope u Ajndhovenu završen je za reprezentativca Srbije Milorada Čavića!

Evropska plivačka federacija (LEN) u petak je na svom zvaničnom sajtu saopštila da je Čaviću, odlukom Panela za disciplinska pitanja i sporove, zabranjeno dalje učešće na 29. EP.

U obrazloženju odluke navedeno je da je srpski plivač "na ceremoniji proglašenja pobednika u disciplini 50 metara leptirovim stilom napravio čist politički potez i prekršio Kodeks o bezbednosti na događajima koje organizuje LEN".

Čavić je u sredu osvojio zlatnu medalju u pomenutoj disciplini, oborivši dva puta zaredom evropski rekord, prvo u polufinalu, a zatim i u finalnoj trci (23,11 sekundi).

Na pobedničko postolje popeo se u crvenoj majici sa ćiriličnim natpisom "Kosovo je Srbija", a dan kasnije su Holanđani, organizatori šampionata, protiv njega pokrenuli disciplinski postupak.

Panel za disciplinska pitanja i sporove LEN ujedno je kaznio Plivački savez Srbije sa sedam hiljada evra.

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Serbia sings Eurovision song aimed at Kosovo

By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin

Last Updated: 7:01PM BST 23/05/2008

Serbia is due to host the Eurovision song contest with a tune hailed as a gesture of nationalist defiance over the secession of Kosovo.

The camp songfest has long dripped with barely-concealed political intrigue as countries vote for friends and neighbours no matter how awful their efforts.

Belgrade's moment in the spotlight comes just three months after Serbia's former province of Kosovo declared independence backed by most of the European Union.

Serbia has withdrawn its ambassadors from those countries which recognise Kosovo, and now Jelena Tomasevic, its Eurovision entrant, is to ram home the country's disgust with her song 'Oro'.

The lyrics of the song, one the favourites, apparently tell the tale of a pair of lovers, and end cryptically: "Wake me up on St Vitus's Day, so that I can look at him again. Wake me up on St Vitus's Day, so that I can see him one more time."

The reference is unlikely to mean much to Eurovision's huge international audience. But in Serbia, and throughout the Balkans, St Vitus's Day, on June 28th, has a powerful resonance. It was on this day in 1389 that Serbs fought the Ottomans at the Field of the Blackbirds in Kosovo, a fight they cherish as a touchstone of Serb religion and nationhood.

Six centuries later, in 1989, Serb autocrat Slobodan Milosevic visited the site of the battle on St Vitus's Day and, before an million-strong crowd, talked of Serbia regaining "its state, national, and spiritual integrity".

"Six centuries later, now, we are being again engaged in battles and are facing battles. They are not armed battles, although such things cannot be excluded yet," he said ominously, with the conflicts that tore across the Balkans in the 1990s just two years away.

An alternative suggestion is that the St Vitus's Day lyric is a reference to a legend that girls who dream of their beloved on that day go on to marry them.

But this is not the first time Serbia has used its Eurovision entry to make a political statement. Last year, Serb winning entrant Marija ****fovic greeted the news that Bosnia had awarded her song a maximum 12 points with a three-fingered salute ­a notorious nationalist gesture from Serb campaigns in the Balkan wars.