Cameroon Athletes go AWOL

[rico]

SEVEN Cameroon Olympic athletes have gone AWOL, their country's sporting bosses have confirmed.

The five boxers, one swimmer and a footballer are believed to have fled the squad's HQ to avoid returning to Africa.

A spokesman for Cameroon's Ministry of Sports and Physical Education confirmed the six men and one woman had vanished from the Games.

Mission head David Ojong said: "What began as rumour has finally turned out to be true. Seven Cameroonian athletes who participated at the 2012 London Olympic Games have disappeared from the Olympic Village."

Ojong said a reserve goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team, Drusille Ngako, was the first to disappear. She was not one of the 18 finally retained after pre-Olympic training in Scotland.

While her teammates left for Coventry for a warm-up match against New Zealand, she vanished.

A few days later, swimmer Paul Ekane Edingue and his personal belongings were also not found in his room.

And on Sunday, boxers Thomas Essomba, Christian Donfack Adjoufack, Abdon Mewoli, Blaise Yepmou Mendouo and Serge Ambomo disappeared from the Olympic village.

International Olympic Committee officials said on Tuesday they had heard nothing about the missing athletes.

“We are unaware of it,†IOC spokesman Mark Adams said when asked whether organisers had heard of the mass disappearance.

It is not the first time Cameroonian athletes have disappeared during international sports competitions.

At past overseas sporting events games as well as junior soccer competitions, several Cameroonians have quit their delegation without official consent.

[I am Rod Hull]

Can`t blame them to be honest, Africa`s a dump.

[Jaspa]

Well I certainly wont be intervening if I recognise this one

Christian Donfack Adjoufack

[I am Rod Hull]

Well I certainly wont be intervening if I recognise this one

Christian Donfack Adjoufack

He`ll be bouncing at a night club within a week.

[rico]

He`ll be bouncing at a night club within a week.

or claiming benefits

[Guest MattP]

I was close, I predicted a Nigerian archery team on Facebook.

[Finnegan]

The Daily Mail are going to love this.

Macus Brigstocke called it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprIqmj6vLU

[Jon the Hat]

Inevitable. If you are selling how brilliant London and Great Britain is you have to expect some people to want to stay.

And to be fair, they could probably apply for a visa, I am sure there is a category for top class athletes.

[Parafox]

Inevitable. If you are selling how brilliant London and Great Britain is you have to expect some people to want to stay.

And to be fair, they could probably apply for a visa, I am sure there is a category for top class athletes.

Bookies runner?

[AyewJoking]

They are just exercising their human right to live in any country they want to.

[purpleronnie]

They are just exercising their human right to live in any country they want to.

Or maybe they will return and go back to cameroon?

[Trav Le Bleu]

They're hiding in acooling's shed.